Chocolate Sheath Cake

Sonya Bankester
Sonya Bankester @LowerAlabama
Stapleton, Alabama, United States

My Moma looooved “chocklet”. This was the main cake she’d bake for Thanksgiving and Christmas (and any other time too when she’d have a hankering for “chocklet” cake. #GoldenApron23
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Chocolate Sheath Cake

My Moma looooved “chocklet”. This was the main cake she’d bake for Thanksgiving and Christmas (and any other time too when she’d have a hankering for “chocklet” cake. #GoldenApron23
#KeepRecipesAlive

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Ingredients

  1. 1 tspsalt
  2. 2 cupssugar
  3. 1 cupwater
  4. 1 tspbaking soda
  5. 1/2 cupbuttermilk
  6. 2 cupplain flour
  7. 1 stickbutter or margarine
  8. 1/2 cupCrisco shortening
  9. 2eggs
  10. 2heaping Tbsp cocoa
  11. FROSTING:
  12. 3/4 cupmargarine
  13. 1 box (1 pound)powdered sugar, sifted twice
  14. 1 tspvanilla
  15. 3heaping Tbsp cocoa
  16. 1/3 cupmilk
  17. 1 cupchopped pecans

Cooking Instructions

  1. 1

    Preheat oven to 350*. Grease or line with parchment paper, a shallow 11 x 17 baking pan, set aside Combine flour, sugar & salt, set aside.

  2. 2

    Heat margarine, crisco, cocoa & water. Bring to a boil, whisk until smooth. Pour over flour mixture, stir well. Blend in buttermilk, soda & eggs. Blend until smooth. Bake in preheated oven for 15 - 20 minutes.

  3. 3

    WHILE CAKE IS BAKING, make Frosting

  4. 4

    Using same pot, bring margarine, cocoa, & milk to boil. Whisk until blended. Add twice sifted powdered sugar & vanilla. Mix until smooth, stir in pecans.
    (I like my pecans chopped small, so it spreads better, Moma preferred hers chunky.)

  5. 5

    Pour over cake in pan while hot, spread evenly to edges to coat entire cake. Let cool completely before cutting.

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Sonya Bankester
Sonya Bankester @LowerAlabama
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Stapleton, Alabama, United States
I love to bake sweet stuff, with a bit of savory tasty cooking thrown into the mix. Just good ol’ southern cuisine. Most of my recipes were handed down from my Great & Grand Grannies. If they didn’t grow it or raise it, it wasn’t eaten. My hubby and I have alot of food allergies so it gets challenging sometimes to make things that we both can eat. Neither of us can eat shellfish, which is sad, considering where we live, cuz it’s everywhere! Y’all won’t find any shellfish /saltwater fish recipes here. Some fresh water fishes, maybe. Hope y’all enjoy my recipes!
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