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Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Buttercream Frosting
A perfectly decadent, rich chocolate cake. It has the perfect texture, a moist crumb, an abundance of chocolate flavor and its finished with an tempting, creamy chocolate buttercream.
👥 16 Servings⏱️ Prep & Cook: 2h⏳ Prep: 30 min🔥 Cook: 30 min👤 Jaclyn📖 cookingclassy
🥘 Ingredients
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🍳 Cookware
- pan
- oven
- bowl
- mixing bowl
- whisk
- knife
📝 Preparation Steps
1
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter two 9-inch round cake pans then line bottom of each with a round of parchment paper. Butter parchment paper. If you'd like more level cakes wrap cake pans with baking strips (which have been soaked and fully saturated with water, see notes below recipe), or you can cut top to level after baking.
2
In a large heat-proof mixing bowl, whisk together granulated sugar, brown sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt. Carefully pour boiling water in to cocoa mixture and immediately whisk to blend well. Allow to cool ⏱️ 5 minutes.
baking soda1 tsp(235ml) boiling water*1 cup(256g) all-purpose flour (spoon and level to measure)2 cups
3
Using an electric hand mixer set on low speed blend in vegetable oil and melted butter until combined. Add eggs, egg yolks and vanilla extract and blend just to combined. Then add flour and blend until combined, and finish by blending in milk and sour cream just until combined.
(235ml) boiling water*1 cuplarge eggs2(256g) all-purpose flour (spoon and level to measure)2 cupslarge egg yolks3vanilla extract1 Tbsp
4
Divide mixture evenly among 2 prepared pans. Bake in preheated oven until toothpick inserted into center of cake comes out clean or with a few moist crumbs, about ⏱️ 29 - 34 minutes. Allow to cool in pan ⏱️ 5 minutes, run butter knife around edge of cake and invert onto a wire rack and allow to cool completely.
5
Trim cakes level if needed. Add frosting to top of one round then top with second cake and frost top and sides of cake. Store in an airtight container.
Nutrition Facts
calories
614 kcal
fat Content
36 g
serving Size
1 serving
fiber Content
3 g
sugar Content
56 g
sodium Content
364 mg
protein Content
5 g
cholesterol Content
118 mg
carbohydrate Content
74 g
saturated Fat Content
24 g
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