White Texas Sheet Cake

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White Texas Sheet Cake is made in a saucepan just like chocolate Texas sheet cake, but it is flavored with vanilla and almond making it taste more like wedding cake. It is perfect for parties, potlucks, BBQs and more.

Make homemade vanilla cake topped with smooth white icing in the simplest possible way. This cake is made like the chocolate Texas sheet cake, all in saucepans, but there’s no chocolate in site.

Take a 13x18x1″ half sheet pan and get to work. This recipe makes enough buttery vanilla cake to feed a crowd with very little effort.

The fact that is ready to eat in an hour or two is pretty amazing for a homemade cake. Plus you don’t have to worry about remembering to soften the butter ahead of time.

It will melt when you cook it with the water. There’s no creaming, no mixers, no fuss.

MiMi originally shared this recipe with us in 2015. She had been on a Texas sheet cake baking bender, making all sorts of different flavors.

She asked Pops to choose a flavor for Father’s day and he chose vanilla cake with vanilla icing. Wedding cake or the mix of white cake and white frosting is always one of his favorites.

Most cake recipes require softened butter and room temperature ingredients.  MiMi doesn’t always plan ahead when making cake so she really likes that Texas sheet cakes start by melting the butter in a saucepan.

It also cuts out the steps of creaming the butter and any other bits that she finds fiddly. She likes recipes as simple as possible and this one fits the bill.

Most of the ingredients are pantry staples. The icing is cooked also and it spreads out to form a nice smooth layer without much effort, another thing she loves.

No worrying about crumbs surfacing as you ice the cake. A few sprinkles are all you need to make the cake look finished, no decorating skills required.

We used the recipe for White Texas sheet cake from Kitty’s Kozy Kitchen as a starting point. After reviewing several recipes, I realized that most of them follow this same recipe.

We like using a mix of almond extract and vanilla extract to give it that wedding cake flavor, so we did alter the recipe for that. Plus we bake it in a 13×8-inch jelly roll pan, because that is a size that most people seem to have.

If you like chocolate frosting on your birthday cake, feel free to use the icing recipe from the chocolate sheet cake. The mix of vanilla cake and chocolate icing is always a hit.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I omit the almond extract in this white Texas sheet cake?

Yes. If you want your cake to be a fully vanilla Texas sheet cake, you can leave out the almond extract. I would replace it with additional vanilla extract to give it plenty of vanilla extract.

Can I bake this cake in a 10×15-inch pan?

Yes. We have baked this cake in a 10×15″ pan several times. It gives you a thicker cake layer, which is nice.

Though we have heard from some people that it fills their pan so it is hard to ice the cake. We use a USA Pan cake pan and have had luck with that particular pan.

How do you store vanilla Texas sheet cake?

Texas sheet cake can be stored loosely covered at room temperature for 3-4 days. If you have a half sheet pan lid, that works great

Otherwise, loosely cover the cake with plastic wrap or foil to the keep the exposed cake from drying out.

For longer storage, you can freeze the cake for up to three months. Either wrap the entire cake in plastic wrap and foil to freeze, or place individual slices in airtight containers to freeze.

Allow frozen cake to defrost at room temperature for a couple of hours and then enjoy.

A few more of our favorite cake recipes:

Di’s Banana Cake is so easy to make and moist as can be! The directions will surprise you, you’ll just have to make it to believe it! 

Peanut Butter Sheet Cake has everything you love about a sheet cake but with rich peanut butter flavor. Top it with icing or make a fluffy buttercream for an extra special treat.

Great-Great-Grandma’s Dutch Apple Cake has been in my family for generations.  It is a simple cake topped with apples and plenty of golden topping.  It is great as a coffee cake at breakfast, for an afternoon treat or as a simple dessert.

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