Ingredients For Baking Sheet Cake

Series Summary

Baking a sheet cake is a great dessert option when you've got to feed a crowd at a birthday party, retirement party or any occasion. The large surface area of the sheet cake makes it possible to really showcase your cake decorating skills. A hand-decorated cake makes any occasion more special. Serving a homemade cake with unique, personalized icing lets the guest of honor know that you really care. Icing design can be as simple or as elaborate as you choose. Whether the event is a birthday, wedding, baby shower, graduation or holiday celebration, you’ll impress everyone when they learn that the artistry is your own creation.

In this series of free video clips, you’ll learn how to bake a chocolate marbled sheet cake from start to finish. Expert Karen Weisman takes you through the process step-by-step, from choosing the best ingredients, preparing the oven & pan, and mixing together the ingredients, to shaping and icing the cake, and preparing frosting for adding trim with a pastry bag. Surprise a special person in your life with a beautiful homemade, hand-decorated cake today. Once you’ve sampled this recipe, you’ll never want a store-bought cake again.

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Karen for Expert Village. Today we're going to be making a marble sheet cake. First we're going to be preparing our ingredients, it's important to take out all of your ingredients before you start to make sure that you have everything you need. There's nothing worse then getting halfway through a recipe and finding you've forgotten to buy something. So here we go, today we're going to be using 4 1/2 cups of flour, 2 1/4 cups of sugar, plus an additional 1/4 for our marbling, a 1/4 cup of cocoa, I like to use the dutch process cocoa, it has a nice flavor, 1 cup of oil, I'm using Carnola Oil, 4 eggs, 4 tsp of baking powder, 1 tsp of salt and 2 tsp of vanilla. I'm also using a cup of milk, you can use Soy Milk instead, I prefer to use Soy Milk or you can use water or if you'd like to have a little more flavor a little more zip, you can use orange juice and if I use orange juice I usually grid in a little bit of the orange peel for a little more flavor."