This is my mom's go-to cake recipe, for every occasion. It's your birthday? Here's a chocolate cake! It's so go-to, in fact, that my mom usually forgets that I actually prefer yellow cake with chocolate frosting. Oops! But really, I'll take any flavor cake - especially one my mom made for me - any day! So while chocolate cake might not be my favorite, this recipe certainly is delicious!
Ingredients:
3/4 cup cocoa
2/3 cup boiling water
3/4 cup butter
2 cups sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 eggs
2 cups unsifted cake flour (this is an important detail! Cake flour, not all-purpose!)
1 1/4 teaspoons baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup buttermilk (2 tsp vinegar to milk)
Directions:
Stir together cocoa and boiling water until smooth; set aside
Cream butter and sugar
Add vanilla
Mix dry ingredients
Add dry ingredients alternately with buttermilk
Blend in cocoa mixture
Grease and flour two 9-inch layer pans
Bake at 350* for 35-40 minutes
Cool 10 minutes, then remove from pans
Frost with buttercream:
1 lb confectioners sugar
2 sticks softened butter
2 teaspoons vanilla
3-4 tablespoons milk
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