Bowling Lane Cake. FamilyFun. Ingredients. 2 baked 13-by-9-inch cakes, any flavor 1 3/4 cups plus 1/4 cup of white frosting Yellow food coloring 1 cup of brown chocolate frosting ...

Like the Texas sheet cake, this vanilla-strawberry number is baked in a half-sheet pan, a large, shallow pan that’s 13-by-18-inches.Once baked, the cake is maybe a tad over an inch in height ...

It’s difficult to pinpoint the origins of the sheet cake as we know it but, by the late 1800s, cakes were already being baked in the shallow pans used to catch meat drippings.