Description
A rich moist chocolate cake with a chocolate buttercream icing. This is the best cake in the world!
Ingredients
- 2 cups white sugar
- 1 ¾ cups all-purpose flour
- ¾ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 ½ teaspoons baking soda
- 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup milk
- ½ cup vegetable oil
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 cup boiling water
- ¾ cup butter
- 1 ½ cups unsweetened cocoa powder
- 5 ⅓ cups confectioners’ sugar
- ⅔ cup milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour two 9-inch round cake pans.
- Make cake: Stir together sugar
- flour
- cocoa
- baking soda
- baking powder
- and salt in a bowl. Add eggs
- milk
- oil
- and vanilla; mix for 3 minutes with an electric mixer. Stir in boiling water by hand. Pour evenly into the prepared pans.
- Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the centers comes out clean
- 30 to 35 minutes. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to cool completely.
- While cakes cool
- make frosting: Cream butter with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Stir in confectioners’ sugar and cocoa alternately with milk and vanilla. Beat to a smooth spreading consistency.
- Split the layers of the cooled cake horizontally
- cover the top of each layer with frosting
- then stack them onto a serving plate.
- Frost the outside of the cake with remaining frosting.
Prep Time: 30 mins
Cook Time: 35 mins
Total Time: 1 hr 5 mins
Servings: 12