Joyce's Yellow Cake with Chocolate Frosting

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Last year for Thanksgiving I was in Virginia and tasted a delicious cake at a luncheon.  I proceeded to not only ask the lovely Joyce to make me another one (I had to take one home with me) but for the recipe as well.  It has taken me almost a year but I have finally attempted it to mixed reviews.  The cake itself which is a box-mix with some additional ingredients is turning out delicious each time.  

The frosting is an entirely different story.  It is a very sweet chocolate frosting that hardens a bit after it has cooled but mine is still too granulated.  

I am posting the recipe in hopes that someone reading will try it out and give me some feedback.  When the cake is made correctly, it is a perfect combo of cake and frosting.  I kid you not when I say that I've eaten an entire sheet pan of it in two days. 

Try it out and tell me what you think.  I am writing out the recipe as it was given to me, though I have put in a couple footnotes for you.

 

Joyce's Yellow Cake with Chocolate Frosting

Cake 

  • Yellow Cake Mix
  • Packet of Instant Vanilla Pudding
  • 1 cup Sour Cream
  • 2/3 cup vegetable oil
  • 4 large Eggs

Combine all ingredients and bake in a 1/2 sheet pan

Frosting 

  • 3 cups Sugar
  • 1/2 cup Cocoa  
  • 1 stick of butter
  • 3/4 cup Sweet Milk* 
  • 1 Tsp Vanilla
  • 1/2 cup Chopped Nuts**

MIx Cocoa and Sugar

Add Milk and stir until it is dissolved 

Bring the mixture to a boil and cover pot for one minute. 

Remove from the heat, add butter and vanilla

Beat until consistency is spreadable. 

 

*I first interpreted this as sweet condensed milk but it didn't work and attempted it a second time with evaporated milk

**optional and both times Joyce made the cake for me it was without nuts