Easy Chocolate Sheet Cake

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Title: Easy Chocolate Sheet Cake
Categories: Cakes, Chocolate
Yield: 12 servings

c Buttermilk
1 ts Baking soda
1/2 c Butter or margarine
1 c Water
1/2 c Vegetable oil or melted
; shortening
1/4 c Cocoa
2 Eggs; lightly beaten
1 ts Vanilla
2 c All-purpose flour; sifted
2 c Sugar
1 ts Cinnamon
Chocolate frosting; * see
-note

Preheat oven to 400. Grease and flour a 13x9x2-inch baking
pan. Stir together buttermilk and soda in measuring cup or
small bowl and reserve for later use.
Combine butter, water, oil, and cocoa in medium saucepan;
bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring to melt butter.
Remove pan from heat and stir in buttermilk mixture. Add
eggs and vanilla; blend thoroughly. Stir in flour, sugar,
and cinnamon until blended. Pour batter into prepared pan.
Bake for 15 to 20 minutes or until cake begins to pull away
from sides of pan and toothpick inserted in center comes
out clean. Cool in pan on wire rack. Spread with Chocolate
Frosting.
* CHOCOLATE FROSTING: 1/2 cup) butter or margarine,
1/4 cup milk, 1/4 cup cocoa, 4 cups sifted confectioners'
sugar, (about 1 pound), 1 teaspoon vanilla. Combine
butter, milk, and cocoa in medium saucepan. Bring to a boil
over medium heat, stirring to melt butter. Remove from
heat; gradually stir in sugar and vanilla. Stir until
smooth.

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