Easy and BEST Fudge Brownie Cake

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Love Brownies AND Cake?  Here it is, all-in-ONE!  This simple delicious toss together cake is a family favorite of ours, is tender, fudgy and just down right good. 

It’s inexpensive, and easily made in sheet cake or jelly roll pans that you can make it for parties or large gatherings with hardly any effort at all. 

Easiest BEST Fudge Brownie Cake

Cake Ingredients & Directions:

Coat a 9×13″ cake pan or a jelly roll pan with sides, very well with spray release.  

*If you use a cake pan, you will have a thicker cake more traditional type of cake. If you use a jelly roll pan you will have a thinner but dense cake.

Heat oven to 400 degrees.  

In a large bowl mix together:

2 cups flour

2 cups granulated sugar

 

In a pan bring to a boil:

½ cup (1 stick) butter

1/2 cup butter flavor shortening

1/4 cup cocoa

1 cup water

Pour hot mixture over flour and sugar mixture in bowl until well blended.  

To the bowl add:

1/2 cup buttermilk

1 tsp. baking soda

2 eggs

1 tsp. vanilla

Beat well and pour into prepared pan.

Bake at 400 degrees for 15-20 minutes, or until toothpick tests done.

***At this point you can leave the cake as it is

OR

You can take a wooden skewer and poke holes all over the entire cake which will allow the frosting to soak down into the cake.  Whether it is the more thick cake, or the thin cake, it works great if you like a fudgier cake. 

Frost cake while still warm -see next step

When the cake comes out of the oven, make the frosting.  

Frosting:

In a pan boil together:

1 stick butter

5 Tbs. buttermilk

1/3 cup cocoa powder

1 tsp. vanilla

 Take off heat and slowly add enough powdered sugar to make spread-able and frost warm cake. 

Approximately 1 ½ – 2 cups powdered sugar.

 While cake is still warm pour frosting evenly over the cake, spreading lightly with a spatula as needed.

 Allow frosting to set  just enough that you will be able to lightly touch it and it won’t disturb the frosting.

Cover with saran wrap and cool completely. This step allows the cake to maintain it’s moistness.

Serve with a dusting of powdered sugar or alone.

Carrie Groneman – old family recipe Copyright Carrie Groneman, A Mother’s Shadow, 2014

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