How to Make Yellow Sheet Cake with Chocolate Frosting

Host Bridget Lancaster bakes celebration-worthy Yellow Sheet Cake with Chocolate Frosting.

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~~~ For Cake: ~~~
## Ingredients ##
9 oz bleached cake flour
12.25 oz sugar
1 + 1/4 tsp baking powder
1/4 baking soda
1/2 tsp table salt
1/2 cup buttermilk
4 large eggs + 2 yolks
1 tbsp vanilla
1 stick unsalted butter
1/2 cup veggie oil

## Recipe ##
1) To mixing bowl, add cake flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda salt. mix to combine.
2) Combine buttermilk, eggs, vanilla in separate container, wisk together.
3) Add softened butter, in pieces, and veggie oil to dry ingredients. Mix 30 sec to incorporate.
4) Mix on medium to aerate 1 min.
5) Turn mixer to low and gradually add wet ingredients.
6) Mix on med-high for 3 mins.
7) Grease and flour 9x13 in cake pan and add batter. Spread to even out and tap the pan to remove bubbles.
8) Bake for 28-32 mins at 350 degrees until cake tester comes out with few crumbs.
9) let cool at least 2 hours.


~~~ For Frosting: ~~~
## Ingredients ##
2 oz 60% chocolate
9 oz confectioner's sugar
1.5 oz cocoa powder
1/4 tsp salt
8 tbsp softened butter
1/4 cup hot water

## Recipe ##
1) chop fine chocolate and melt in microwave.
2) Add sugar, cocoa, salt, butter, and hot water to mixing bowl.
3) Using wisk attachment, mix on low to combine. Then increase speed to medium for 1 min.
4) Add melted chocolate and incorporate on low speed.
5) Allow to set up at room temperature for 30-40 mins.
6) Frost cake and let set up in fridge about 20 mins.

[gracealsterberg]

Thanks Collin for making the effort for writing this all down for us. Nice of you to do that.

[carltoningram]

I love ATK because they are willing to take on and showcase recipes that are often seen as pedestrian one day and sophisticated the next, but still give the same expert care to each recipe - the premiere unpretentious cooking show! You guys got the formula figured out - never change!

[carolbenson]

Such a simple good old fashioned recipe that everyone loves!! Finally someone scrapes down the sides of the bowl which no one does on any of the cooking shows or videos!!!

[RyanTaylor]

Watched this whole video. Was laughing out loud with genuine excitement by the time she cut into the first bite! Lol wish I had a mixer!! I’d be making this right now

[milliethemillinator]

This by far, turned out to be the best yellow cake 🎂 I've ever made and eaten. 👏❤😋

[serenae]

Love this video and the cake looks beautiful. My favorite cooking show!

[michaelbaumgardner]

Yum, that cake is on the road map to my heart.

[VintageMale]

I love your expressions of joy when eating desserts! You say all the things I am thinking, and your sense of humor is priceless! Can't wait to try the recipe. Thanks Bridget.

[melissah]

I want to bake with Bridget (and Julia too)!!! I love your wisdom and sense of humor...and (as icing on the cake...tee hee hee) you're someone who enjoys a vintage Pyrex plate! I think we are soul sisters...

[DailyPositiveAffirmatives]

Wow, this is hands down the only yellow cake recipe I’ve made that came out just absolutely flawless. This recipe is a keeper. The frosting is superbly flavorful as well. Thanks Jill & ATK!

[underdog]

My favorite cake‼️ my favorite cooking show 😋 😍 ❤

[donnagoodale]

I love the chemistry lessons and they have added to my own cooking and baking abilities exponentially! I understand the role that sugar plays in baking thanks to these lessons over the years, but does anyone at ATK have an interest in developing a sugarless cake to beat the one I've developed over the holidays? Its light and fluffy, moist with a fine crumb and has a delightful flavor.

[emdoubleyew]

Oooh, this is mom’s favorite combo! Gonna make this real soon for her, thank you for putting this out!

[belindacoleman]

YUM! YUMMY!! YUMMIEST!!! ❤ Thank you for sharing this recipe.

[tzubin]

Thanks for the science lesson also re: bleached vs unbleached flower. Good information there!

[slocad]

Great explanation of the flour. I like the idea of using both oil and butter, too. Generally, you did a super job on this workshop. Well-done. I have a question, though: I can`t find bleached cake flour where I live (Ukraine), so I can replace two Tbsp of AP flour with corn starch for every cup required in the recipe to create a cake flour, but what do you suggest in terms of modifying it to make it more like bleached or just having the effect of bleaching? My hands are largely tied here unless I want to pay a lot to ship some unusual flour in, and then wait for it.

[kataysmith]

This is a great cake. It came as light and fluffy as boxed mixes. Thanks ATK!

[losttribe]

We’re all friends here..right? We can share things with each other without judgement? 😆😆
Ever year for my birthday, my wife makes me a boxed yellow cake mix with milk chocolate frosting…it’s what my mother use to make me growing up and there’s a familiarity with it. Yes, homemade is much better. But I like it.

[Peter]

Looks delicious. Any thoughts on high altitude adjustment for the cake?