What Meegan Makes

vintage style, cottage living, home cooking

I’ve Got The Monday Blues for 20+ Super Bowl Recipes

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Hello, hello!!  I’ve Got The Monday Blues for 20+ Super Bowl Recipes and they are all mine!!  Yep, each and every recipe is from Meegan’s kitchen!  And, you will want and need each one this coming weekend for your Super Bowl parties and gatherings.

I like a variety of foods.  Savory, sweet, and most of all, delicious.  All of these recipes featured today are crowd pleasers and taste tested by my own family.  Believe me, they love food and these are some of their personal favorites.

Let’s start off with the savory meals and dishes first:

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Meegan’s Texas Sheet Cake

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Yes! It’s time for Meegan’s Texas Sheet Cake. Our family LOVES this moist, chocolatey cake. I made it for a family gathering this past weekend, and I thought you might like it, too. It serves a crowd and doesn’t last long, because it is THAT good…

*Updated and modified September 2026.

 

{Meegan’s Texas Sheet Cake}

Ingredients for Cake:

2 cups sugar

2 cups flour

3/4 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

 2 sticks REAL butter

3 Tbs. cocoa

1 cup water

2 eggs

1/2 cup buttermilk

1 tsp. REAL Vanilla

Mix sugar and flour.  Mix butter, cocoa, and water, bring to a boil. Pour hot liquid mixture over sugar, salt, baking soda and flour. Beat eggs, add buttermilk and vanilla, then pour over chocolate mixture and stir until smooth.

Bake at 350* for 20-25 minutes in a 12×18 inch pan.

Ingredients for Icing:

2 sticks REAL butter 3 Tbsp cocoa

1 box powdered sugar

6 Tbls milk

1 cup coarsely chopped nuts

1 tsp REAL vanilla

Melt butter and cocoa and milk. Bring to a boil. Pour over powdered sugar and whisk until smooth. Toss in pecans Add vanilla. Whisk until smooth

Pour over hot cake.

Serve it up with a cold glass of milk or your favorite hot drink. Not to mention it’s so delicious with a scoop of ice cream, too!How easy does that sound? It seriously is so chocolatey, and moist. Plus the flavor of the buttermilk in a chocolate cake can’t be beat, right?

I hope you will make Meegan’s Texas Sheet Cake sometime soon.  It is the perfect comfort food for Winter.

Thanks for joining me today!  I have been having so much fun reading your sweet and encouraging comments.  I am a very blessed woman to have you here each day!

Make it a wonderful day.

Meegan

More recipes that you might enjoy…

Delicious and Gluten Free. No Bake Oat and Almond Pie Crust

How To Make a Flaky Pie Crust from scratch.

How to make a rustic cake filled with raspberry filling from scratch.

Hawaiian Delight Cake with crushed pineapple, fresh cream, cream cheese, toasted almond and coconut.

 

Simply The Best of 2013-What Meegan Makes

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I hope you have been enjoying Simply The BEST of 2013!!  Now it is my turn to share Simply The Best of 2013-What Meegan Makes. What Meegan Makes started on Dec 27, 2011.  Yep, it has been 2 full years of posts, creativity, amazing followers, and lots of fun friendships.  Thanks so much for joining me on this journey of What Meegan Makes.  It was a very slow start.  I was doing blogging all on my own until about a year ago.  I “met” some amazing bloggers that invited me to their “groups” and “troops” to help spread the word about my blog.  I am SO grateful from them.  (There are too many to mention)  I am a blessed woman, without a doubt.

 

I am looking forward to a new year full of ideas, inspiration and a new look.  Hopefully, my blog will continue to be a place of inspiration, recipes, thrifting, and wonderful thoughts for you to visit each day.  I also hope to make the blog more accessible for all of my readers and followers.  It will be a fabulous year!!

 

Below is the full run down and schedule for Simply THE BEST:

Sunday December 29th:

AT HOME WITH THE BARKERS

SNAZZY LITTLE THINGS

PETTICOAT JUNKTION

SWEET PEA

JUST PAINT IT

Monday December 30th:

DIO HOME IMPROVEMENTS

MOMMY IS COOCOO

JUST A GIRL AND HER BLOG

RAPPSODY IN ROOMS

INSPIRATION FOR MOMS

Tuesday December 31st:

GIRL IN THE GARAGE

ARTSY CHICKS RULE

WHAT MEEGAN MAKES

COUNTRY DESIGN STYLE

CONFESSIONS OF A SERIAL DO-IT-YOURSELFER

SIMPLY FRESH VINTAGE

With that being said let’s see Simple the BEST of 2013-What Meegan Makes…

Hang Decorative Plates With Hot Glue and Paper Clips

22 Ways To Use Barn Wood Boxes

$10 Thrifted and Painted Chairs

My $8 Thrifted Chandy

Thrifted Bathroom Door

PB Knock-off Vase

Beach Inspired Memory Bottle

Quick and Easy Gift for Mother’s Day

Epsom Salt Christmas Jars  (This post had my all time high hits in one day!)

Orange Cupcakes From Scratch

Fresh & Easy Fajitas

Butter Lemon Snow Drops  (This post was actually picked up by Pillsbury, and used on their site here.  Woot woot!)

For some fun What Meegan Makes trivia: these last 2 posts below are clicked on EVERYDAY!!  Even though they are from 2012.  Cool, huh???

DIY Book Page Flower

Dyeing Coffee Filters with Food Coloring

There you have it!!  Simply the BEST from What Meegan Makes 2013.  Thanks for letting me share the highlights from my blog in 2013.  May there be many, many more posts to bring light to your days!!

Make it a Happy New Year!!

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