Julie's Texas Sheet Cake....

Combine in a mixing bowl:
2 cups flour
2 cups sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 tsp. cinnamon

In a saucepan, melt:

2 sticks butter
Add 4 heaping tablespoons cocoa. Stir together. Add 1 cup boiling water, allow mixture to boil for 30 seconds, then turn off heat. Pour over flour mixture, and stir lightly to cool.

In measuring cup, pour 1/2 cup buttermilk.

Add:

2 beaten eggs
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon vanilla

Stir buttermilk mixture into butter/chocolate mixture. Pour into sheet cake pan and bake at 350-degrees for 20 minutes.

While cake is baking, make icing:

Chop 1/2 cup pecans finely.
Melt 1 1/2 sticks butter in a saucepan.
Add 4 heaping tablespoons cocoa, stir to combine, then turn off heat.

Add:

6 tablespoons buttermilk
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 lb minus 1/2 cup powdered sugar

Stir together.Add pecans, stir together, and pour over warm cake. Cut into squares 7 serve.

Pumpkin Gooey Butter Cake..

Pumpkin Gooey Butter Cake

1 package yellow cake mix
1 egg
8 tablespoons butter, melted

Filling:
1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese, softened
1 (15-ounce) can pumpkin
3 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
8 teaspoons butter, melted
1 (16-ounce) box powdered sugar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg

COMBINE cake mix, 1 egg and 8 tablespoons melted butter. Mix well with electric mixer. Pour into a 13-by-9-inch pan, which has been lightly coated with vegetable spray.FILLING: Beat cream cheese and pumpkin until smooth. Add eggs, vanilla, butter and beat. Add powdered sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg. Mix well. Spread over batter and bake 40 to 50 minutes at 350 degrees

Bourbon Pecan Cake...

2 & 1/2 c. sugar

1 c. butter, room temp.

6 large eggs

3 c. sifted cake flour

2 tsp. baking powder

1 tsp. salt

1 tsp. ground nutmeg

1 c. sour cream

1/2 cup plus 1 tbsp. bourbon

1 & 1/2 c. coarsely chopped pecans

2 c. sifted powdered sugar

1 to 2 tbsp. water

Pecan halves for garnish.

Beat sugar and butter in largemixer bowl until light and fluffy. Add eggs, 1 at a time beating well after each.

Mix flour, baking powder, salt and nutmeg in medium bowl. mix sour cream and 1/2 c. of the bourbon in small bowl.

Add 1/3 of the flour mixture at a time to butter mixture, alternating with sour cream mixture, beating well after each addition. Stir in chopped pecans.

Pour batter into greased 10 inch tube or Bundt pan. Bake in preheated 325 degree oven until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, about 1 & 1/2 hrs. Test cake frequently after first hour and 15 minutes.

OH, SO GOOD!!! :)

Mamaw's Fresh Apple Cake

1 & 1/2 c. wesson oil

2 c. sugar

3 c. fresh apples, sliced

2 eggs

1 tsp. cinnamon

1/2 tsp. salt

1 tsp. soda

2 Tbsp. vanilla

1 c. pecans

Bake for 1 & 1/2 hrs. at 350 in a greased tube pan. (This is my Mamaw's best recipe; yummy!)