Texas funeral cake

Grandmother Whitehead's Famous Texas Fudge Cake Recipe

Ree Drummond's chocolate sheet cake is a rich dessert recipe that's made with mostly pantry staples. The pecan-studded fudge icing on top is pure decadence!

Funerals in the Lone Star State call for this comforting chocolate treat.

Dr. Pepper Texas Sheet Cake is a rich chocolate cake made with Dr. Pepper soda. A moist chocolate cake with a chocolate fudge pecan frosting.

When it comes to a classic cake you can't go wrong with Grandma's Texas Sheet Cake. A classic chocolate cake recipe with a poured frosting that has been loved for generations!

A Southern staple! Moist chocolate cake topped with pourable fudge icing that melts into the cake as it cools, finished with crunchy pecans.

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Oh, German Chocolate Cake, how I love you. I remember traveling to Germany as a young college sophomore and being super confused as to why German bakeries didn’t sell German Chocolate Cake. Turns out, German Chocolate Cake isn’t the slightest bit German. In fact, the recipe for it was first published in a Texas newspaper– The Dallas Morning News. Texas! I can’t feel too bad about my blunder because Lady Bird Johnson, who is actually from Texas, made the same mistake. Her’s was more…

Texas funeral cake is a hearty dessert that comes together quickly to feed a crowd, which might partly explain why it's so commonly found at funerals.

Decadent chunky-topped Samoas Texas Sheet Cake Recipe - the Girl Scouts would approve!