Pumpkin Spice Texas Sheet Cake

Fudge Icing:

  • 1/2 cup unsalted butter
  • 1/2 (4-oz.) unsweetened chocolate baking bar, chopped
  • 3 Tbsp. whole buttermilk, at room temperature
  • 3 Tbsp. spicy, fruity cola soft drink (such as Dr Pepper), at room temperature
  • 1/2 tsp. kosher salt
  • 3 cups powdered sugar
  • Chopped toasted pecans

Directions

  • Prepare the Cake: Preheat oven to 350°F. Coat a 17 1/2- x 12 1/2-inch rimmed baking sheet with baking spray; set aside. Gather all ingredients.

    Pumpkin Spice Texas Sheet Cake ingredients in glass bowls on a marble surface

  • Whisk together pumpkin, oil, brown sugar, granulated sugar, buttermilk, vanilla, and eggs in a large bowl.

    Pumpkin Spice Texas Sheet Cake whisking together the wet ingredients for the cake batter

    Sift together flour, pumpkin pie spice, baking soda, and salt over pumpkin mixture in bowl.

    Pumpkin Spice Texas Sheet Cake sifting together the dry ingredients

    Whisk together until just combined.

    Pumpkin Spice Texas Sheet Cake whisking the flour mixture into the rest of the cake ingredients

    Transfer batter to prepared baking sheet, spreading into an even layer.