Hemming Birthday Cake

HEMMING BIRTHDAY CAKE 

This is a variation  of Texas sheet cake.  Alice Hemming gave me the recipe.  It's been our family birthday cake since 1990!   So good with vanilla ice cream.  

In large mixing bowl, sift together: 

2 C flour

2 C sugar

1/2 tsp cinnamon

pinch salt

Melt in saucepan: 

2 sticks butter (1 cup) 

1/3 C cocoa powder

1 C water 

In a large Pyrex or bowl, combine: 

2 eggs

 1/2 C buttermilk

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp vanilla 

Mix hot mixture into sugar/flour mixture.  Then, add the egg mixture and stir well. 

Pour into pan(s).  Bake in 9 x 13 inch pan at 375 degrees for 30-35 min (? depending on your oven)  - less frosting needed with this option.  Still delicious.  

Or, bake in two 8-inch round pans, lined with parchment, at 400 degrees for 22-25 minutes (depending on your oven).  Cool for 10 minutes in pan, then tip out onto cooling racks.  If there is a high domes on the cakes, shave off the domes with a bread knife, and add those crumbs to part of the frosting, for between the two layers of the cakes. 

FROSTING: 

Melt in saucepan: 

1/3 cup cocoa

1/3 C buttermilk 

1 stick butter 

Then add 3 1/2-4 C powdered sugar. 

Let cool to almost room temp, stirring occasionally.