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Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Chocolate Cake with Buttercream Chocolate Frosting





For my husband's birthday every year I ask him what kind of cake he would like me to make.  In years past he has requested pecan pie, ice-cream cake, german chocolate cake, caramel cake, etc.  For his last birthday he said he wanted a chocolate cake with chocolate frosting.  We had recently been to a church get together and one of our friends who used to work at a bakery brought a chocolate cake with chocolate frosting and it was the best we'd ever tasted so he said he specifically wanted that cake.  I asked her for the recipe and she graciously shared.  And the best part is it's pretty easy and so delicious!

Ingredients:
Devils' food cake (substitute butter instead of oil and milk instead of water, add extra egg for total of 4)
small chocolate pudding mix

Frosting:
3 sticks butter, room temp
4 cups powder sugar
3/4 cup cocoa powder
4 Tbsp heavy whipping cream
2 tsp vanilla
pinch of salt

optional: mini chocolate chips

Directions:
1.  Make cake according to directions on package making substitutions listed in ingredients list.
2.  For frosting, beat butter on medium speed until creamy (probably 3 minutes or so).
3.  Slowly incorporate sugar and cocoa on low speed.
4.  Add cream, vanilla, and salt.
5.  Mix on medium for 10 minutes and spread on cooled cake.
6.  Decorate with piping and mini chocolate chips if you'd like.









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