How to Cook Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Butter Cream Frosting
Makes: 2 cakes
Preparation time: 30 mins
Cooking time: 1 hour
Ingredients needed to make chocolate cake with chocolate butter cream frosting:
For the cake:
- 1 ¾ cup all purpose flour
- 1 ½ tsp baking soda
- 1 ½ tsp baking powder
- 2 cups white granulated sugar
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- ¾ cup cocoa powder, unsweetened
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup milk
- 1 cup boiling water
- 1 tsp salt
- ½ cup vegetable oil
For the frosting:
- 5 1/3 cup confectioners’ sugar
- ¾ cup butter
- 2/3 cup milk
- 1 ½ cup cocoa powder, unsweetened
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Cooking instructions for chocolate cake with chocolate butter cream frosting:
- Prepare your oven by preheating to 350 degrees F and grease two 9’’ cake pans with small amount of butter or oil.
- Dust them lightly with flour and set aside. In case you plan to bake them in a single 9’’ x 13’’ baking pan, increase the baking time to 40 minutes.
- Stir in salt, baking powder as well as baking soda into the flour and sift the mixture to a large mixing bowl.
- Sprinkle the cocoa powder and stir them well together to mix.
- Add sugar to the oil and whisk thoroughly until it dissolves.
- Crack the eggs into the sugar-oil mixture and whisk them thoroughly into a pale-yellowish mixture.
- Pour it into the flour mixture and fold them together into a uniform mixture, free of lumps.
- Stir in the vanilla and process the batter with an electric mixer for about 3-5 minutes.
- Empty a cup of boiling water into the batter and stir them well together; don’t panic if the batter looks runny.
- Divide the batter into the greased pans and put them inside the oven, one at a time.
- Bake the cake for about half an hour in the oven at the preheated temperature.
- Insert the doneness of the cake by inserting a skewer into the centre of the cake; a clean skewer indicates perfectly cooked cake.
- Make the other cake in a similar fashion and cool them on a wire rack for about 10 minutes.
- Run a knife along the edges of the cake to free its edges from the pan and invert it onto a flat plate to de-mold it.
- To make the frosting, whisk the butter until it turns fluffy and stir in the rest of the dry ingredients for the frosting.
- Pour the milk and vanilla into the mixture and whisk them thoroughly into a semi-thick consistency which will be easier to spread.
- Coat the sides and top of the cake with the frosting.
- Slice and serve chilled.
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