This Chocolate Layer Cake is so moist and delicious. Great Chocolate Frosting Recipe included. Make it for your next Birthday Cake or dessert.
CHOCOLATE CAKE
My daughter just turned 13. If you are counting, and we for sure are…that makes THREE teenagers and one pre-teen all under one roof. Things are getting interesting over here! I need chocolate…lots and lots of chocolate. It’s a good thing my daughter LOVES chocolate too. She requested a Chocolate Layer Cake for her birthday…and boy did this one deliver!
CHOCOLATE CAKE RECIPE
This is our very favorite Chocolate Cake Recipe. This cake is so delicious. It has a great Chocolatey taste and is so moist. I really don’t love the word “moist” but I have no other word to describe it. The frosting is also really tasty too. It has a great flavor and isn’t too sweet. Now, personally, I am not a big frosting fan. I prefer a little bit of frosting to cake ratio. But my daughter requested LOTS of frosting…so I tried to deliver.
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Chocolate Cake Recipe
Servings16servings
Calories846kcal
AuthorAmy
Ingredients
CHOCOLATE CAKE
2cupsflour
2cupssugar
3/4cupcocoa powder
2tspbaking soda
1tspsalt
2large eggs
1cupbuttermilk
1cupvegetable oil
1 1/2tspvanilla
1cupboiling water
CHOCOLATE FROSTING
1 1/4cupsbutter
1 1/4cupsshortening
9cupspowdered sugar
2tspvanilla extract
1cupcocoa powder
4-5tbspmilk
Instructions
Prepare three 8 inch cake pans with parchment paper circles in the bottom, and grease the sides.
Add all dry ingredients to a large bowl and whisk together.
Add eggs, buttermilk and vegetable oil to the dry ingredients and mix well.
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
This cake is so good, you might not want to wait for a special occasion to make it. I think I should have a slice every day…you know…to counteract having to live with THREE teenagers :).
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BUNTING
For the cake bunting, I simply cut some little triangles out of some fun scrapbook paper and taped them onto a piece of baker’s twine which I then tied to some bamboo skewers. Simply stick into the cake!
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