Serious Eats: Recipes
Cook the Book: Chocolate Sheet Cake
"Please make this cake today. I don't want you to live another day without it." With an endorsement like that there was no way that I wasn't going to try The Pioneer Woman's Chocolate Sheet Cake, otherwise known as the Best Chocolate Sheet Cake Ever.
I've just finished icing the cake and I must say, it looks flawless. But there's a part of me that feels a little like I've cheated. Baking a cake that looks as good as it tastes usually takes a good long while. Sure, the cake and icing might come together pretty quickly, but then there is the interminable period waiting time that occurs while the cake cools enough to be frosted. After all of my years of baking I still jump the gun and end up with a spottily finished cake with unattractive cake crumbs mixed with the icing.
The cake clocked in at a little less than half an hour from start to finish, icing and all. There's no messing with a sifter, or even bringing butter to room temperature. This recipe from The Pioneer Woman Cooks seems like the antithesis of every established rule of baking. It's just so easy. The cake is still sitting on my kitchen counter, and I'm impatiently waiting for it to cool down to a sampleable temperture, but I'm pretty sure that this cake is The Best Chocolate Sheet Cake Ever.
As always with our Cook the Book feature, we have five (5) copies of The Pioneer Woman Cooks to give away this week.