Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Buttercream Frosting
by Eden Glory (@kurdapyaeiko)A rich and moist chocolate cake topped with creamy chocolate buttercream frosting. A favorite cake that we usually indulge even without occasion. Chocolate cakes is like a healing agent to a weary heart.
Ingredients
Cake
- 1 3/4cupcake flour
- 3/4cupunsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 1/2tspbaking powder
- 1 1/2tspbaking soda
- 2cupwhite sugar
- 1tspsalt
- 2pieceeggs
- 1cupmilk
- 1/2cupvegetable oil
- 2tspvanilla extract
- 1cupboiling water
Chocolate Buttercream Frosting
- 1 1/2batch Chocolate Buttercream Frosting
How to make Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Buttercream Frosting
Preparation
Preheat oven to 180°C/350°F (160°C fan).
Grease 2 x 22cm/9" cake pans with butter, then line the base.
Batter
Sift flour, cocoa, baking powder, and baking soda into a large bowl.
Add sugar and salt. Whisk briefly to combine.
Add eggs, milk, oil, and vanilla. Whisk well to combine until lump-free, about 30 seconds.
Add boiling water and whisk to incorporate. The batter will be very thin.
Pour batter into cake pans.
Baking
Bake for 35 minutes or until a wooden skewer inserted into the center comes out clean.
Cool for 10 minutes, then turn out onto wire racks upside down.
Cool completely before frosting.
Frost the cake with Chocolate Buttercream Frosting.
Tips & Tricks
Read Note 4 regarding shelf positions.
See Note 4 regarding cook time if pans are on different shelves.
See Note 3 regarding springform pans and other pan sizes.
Scale the Chocolate Buttercream Frosting recipe up by 50% for this cake.
Recipe by
Eden Glory
(@kurdapyaeiko)
I grew up in the mountainous Cordilleran region, who loves to eat, explore and recreate recipes with available ingredients. I am a Teacher by profession and...