Sunday, January 16, 2011

Duggar Recipe: Savory Sheet Cake

There's nothing like a thick piece of chocolate cake! Do the Duggars have a recipe like that? They sure sure do!

Grandma Duggar's Buttermilk Chocolate Sheet Cake

Ingredients:
2 c. flour
2 c. sugar
2 sticks Oleo™
1 c. water
3 T. cocoa
1/2 c. buttermilk
1 t. baking soda
2 eggs
1 t. vanilla

Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 375°.
2. Mix flour and sugar.
3. Put Oleo™ in pan on stove and bring to a boil.
4. Add water and cocoa. Mix with flour and sugar.
6. Flour 11x13" pan. Bake at 375° for 20-25 min.

Grandma Duggar's Chocolate Icing

Ingredients:
1 stick Oleo™
3 T. cocoa
6 T. milk or butter
1 box powder sugar
1 t. vanilla (2 t. imitation vanilla)

Directions:
1. Put Oleo™ in saucepan, bring to boil, then add milk and cocoa.
2. Add rest of ingredients and mix. Should ice 2 cakes.

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    25 comments:

    1. Sounds delicious! Can't wait to try this one.

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    2. Sounds tasty!!! I;='m sure, since it's a Duggar recipe, that it will be delicious!!! ;)

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    3. Sounds good, I'll try it too. Glad Grandma Duggar is willing to share.

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    4. I have made this and it's a huge hit at our house! Thank-you so much for this recipe

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    5. This is very similar to what my family called a Buttermilk sheeth cake. Very rich and reminds me of a brownie.

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    6. self-rising
      plain
      flour
      which
      one

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    7. Hi Anonymous! (at 7:56 AM on Dec. 4)

      Just plain flour. :)

      Thanks for reading!
      Lily and Ellie

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    8. In a number of episodes, I have seen Michelle and Anna use a mixer or food processor to make cookies and other baked goods. It has a bowl with lid, and a whisk attachment and probably other blades or beaters. Can we get a brand/model name for these appliances?

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    9. @Anonymous

      Hi Anonymous 9,

      Both Michelle and Anna have Bosch mixers that they use to make bread and other baked goods. Sounds like that's what you saw.

      ~Lily and Ellie

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    10. What about the icing? ?.. This recipe is awesome for a huge potluck at church. But there isn't any instructions for the icing :(

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    11. @Anonymous

      Hi Anonymous 11,

      We added the icing recipe to the post. Thanks for the suggestion. :)

      ~Lily and Ellie

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    12. Can you replace the Oleo with butter?
      Does this recipe work if you make smaller portions? Like small loaves or cupcakes?

      I am always looking for special recipes for our Firefighters baking and often provide a nice cake verses cookies for Christmas Day. We bake for each holiday and for all the houses.
      Thank you for the ideas

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    13. @Anonymous

      Hi Anonymous 13,

      Yes, you can replace Oleo with butter. Sorry for the delayed response! We were in Arkansas all weekend for Jill's wedding. :)

      ~Lily and Ellie

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      1. When do you add eggs baking powder and vanilla ? Thank you

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    14. Hi, not to be too nitpicky, but did anyone notice that step 5 is missing out of the recipe? hopefully it tells you when to add the buttermilk, baking soda, eggs and vanilla!

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    15. When you say a box of powder sugar approx how much? Also can you have the recipe for me?

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    16. @Anonymous

      Hi Anonymous 18,

      Oleo is another term for margarine. You can also substitute butter.

      ~Lily and Ellie

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    17. This sounds very much like the cake my mother used to make and I still have her recipe. The first time I remember having it was about 50 years ago.

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    18. Is the cocoa sweetened, semi, or unsweetened?

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    19. @Kellie Rhodes

      Hi Kellie,

      The cocoa is unsweetened. :)

      ~Lily and Ellie

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    20. If butter is replaced do you boil the butter, that doesn't seem like anything I have ever seen before, is this a special secret?

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    21. You melt the butter. I have made chocolate frosting off the back of the Hershey cocoa box and it's a similar method. I want to try this one...

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    22. Oleo is a 1960's word for margarine.
      Don't understand using milk OR butter...they're not the same ingredient and don't have the same consistency. Which is it?
      Also imitation vanilla is horrible. Nothing beats real vanilla extract, like from McCormick.

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