Texas Boiled Brownies Or Cake Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 10x15-inch cake pan.
• Combine butter, water, and cocoa powder for cake in a saucepan over medium heat. Cook until butter has melted and mixture comes to a boil. Remove from the heat and cool slightly.
• Meanwhile, mix flour, sugar, and salt together in a large bowl. Beat buttermilk, eggs, baking soda, and vanilla extract together in a separate bowl.
• Add melted butter mixture to the flour mixture, then add buttermilk-egg mixture and beat until thoroughly combined. Pour into the prepared cake pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 20 minutes. Remove cake from the oven and cool on a wire rack for 5 minutes.
• Meanwhile, combine butter, milk, cocoa powder, and vanilla extract for the frosting in a saucepan over medium heat. Stir until butter melts, then stir in powdered sugar. Spread frosting over the warm cake.

Steps:

• In a large mixing bowl, combine the flour and the sugar.
• In heavy saucepan, combine butter, shortening, coffee or water and cocoa.
• Stir and heat to boiling.
• Pour boiling mixture over the flour and sugar in te bowl.
• Add the buttermilk, eggs baking soda and vanilla.
• Mix well, using a wooden spoon or high speed on an electric mixer.
• Pour into a well buttered 17 1/2 by 11 inch jelly roll pan.
• Bake at 400F for 20 minutes or until brownies are done in the center.
• While brownies bake, prepare the frosting.
• In a saucepan, combine the butter, cocoa and milk.
• Heat to boiling, stirring constantly.
• Remove from heat and mix in the powdered sugar and vanilla, beat until frosting is smooth.
• Pour warm frosting over brownies as soon as you take them out of the oven.
• Cool.
• Cut into 48 bars.