Baker and cookbook author Jessie Sheehan shares her time-saving shortcuts to make two quick and tasty holiday treats: peppermint Texas sheet cake and Oreo truffles.
Texas sheet cake — a large format, thin, one layer chocolate cake that is topped when warm with a hot, pourable fudgy chocolate frosting — is everyone’s idea of a good time. But when the cake is flavored with peppermint for the holidays and assembled in a 9-by-13-inch pan, rather than the traditional, large rimmed cookie sheet, for more manageable, but still generous servings, well, the good time gets even better.
But here’s the thing: if any of this sounds fussy or hard or labor intensive, we’re got news for you. This is one of the easiest cake and frosting combos in the land. You couldn’t make this cake with a stand mixer even if you wanted to. And if you can boil something on the stove top and stir a couple of things together in a bowl, you, too, can make this cake.
Swap Option: Omit the peppermint extract in both the cake and the frosting and substitute orange extract for an equally festive and holiday-friendly chocolate orange Texas sheet cake.When you cook the butter, cocoa, water and espresso powder on the stove top for the cake batter, be sure to only let it boil for about 30 seconds, stirring occasionally.
Be sure to mise en place, or assemble, the frosting ingredients while the cake is baking. You want to assemble the frosting as soon as the cake comes out of the oven, so the frosting can be poured over the cake while they are both still warm.: If you don’t have everything you need on hand, you can easily purchase all of the ingredients . You can pick and choose exactly what ingredients you need based on what’s in your pantry and they’ll be on your doorstep before you know it.
Preheat the oven to 350 F. Grease a 9-by-13-inch pan with cooking spray and line with parchment paper.In a small saucepan set over medium-high heat, add the butter, water, cocoa and espresso powders and cook for 3-4 minutes, stirring occasionally, until boiling. Continue to boil for about 30 seconds, then carefully pour the hot mixture over the dry ingredients, whisking to combine. Gently whisk in the buttermilk mixture until smooth.
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