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Rich chocolate cake with colorful sprinkles on top and around the base, decorated for celebration.

Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Buttercream Frosting

Bree Hester
4.58 from 7 votes
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Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Additional Time 1 hour
Total Time 2 hours
Course cake
Cuisine baking
Servings 10
Calories 511 kcal

Ingredients
  

Chocolate Cake

  • 1 3/4 cups flour
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 3/4 cups cocoa
  • 2 teaspoons baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup buttermilk
  • 1/2 cup vegetable oil
  • 2 eggs room temperature
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 cup freshly brewed hot coffee

Chocolate Buttercream

  • 2 sticks of room temperature butter
  • 2 1/2 cups confectioners sugar
  • 1/2 cup cocoa
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 2-3 tablespoons heavy cream

Instructions
 

  • Mix dry ingredients. In the bowl of your mixer, add the flour, sugar, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Mix this mixture on low until combined.
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  • Add wet ingredients. In a separate bowl, combine the buttermilk, oil, eggs and vanilla. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients
  • Pour in the hot coffee.
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  • Bake. Pour the batter into two prepared pans. I used 9-inch pans. Bake in a preheated 350-degree oven for 30 to 40 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
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  • Let set. Cool in the pans for 30 minutes and then turn them out on a cooling rack to finish cooling.
  • Make buttercream frosting. Cream together the butter and sugar. Gradually add the cocoa powder. Really, add it slowly or you and your kitchen will be wearing it.
  • Finish frosting. Add just enough cream so that the consistency of the frosting is spreadable. Add the vanilla. Yum.
  • Ice your cakes. Spread frosting in an even layer on the surface of both cakes.
  • Decorate. Write your birthday message.
  • And last but not least, decorate the edges with piping or do your own thing.

Nutrition

Calories: 511kcalCarbohydrates: 94gProtein: 6gFat: 15gSaturated Fat: 4gSodium: 536mgFiber: 5g
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