Description
A ridiculously chocolatey cake topped with LOTS of dreamy chocolate buttercream is the stuff dreams are made of!
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 cups sugar
- 1 cup flour
- 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa (I used Dutch cocoa –which is darker)
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 eggs
- 1/2 cup buttermilk {I’ve used 1% with good results too}
- 6 Tablespoons melted butter {Butter is better but canola oil is fine}
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1/2 cup boiling water
Classic Buttercream Frosting
- 1/2 cup of butter, softened
- 1/3 cup of cream or milk (maybe a little more to achieve your desired consistency )
- 1/2 cup of unsweetened cocoa
- pinch of salt
- 2 cups of powdered sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla
Instructions
Cake:
- Preheat oven to 350
- Butter or spray with cooking spray one cake pan ( 8×8 square or 8-9 inch round) I like to cut a piece of parchment out for the bottom and then butter it and the sides.
- Combine sugar through salt in a large mixing bowl.
- Make a well and add remaining ingredients, except the boiling water.
- Mix on medium speed for about 2 minutes.
- Then stir in one cup boiling water.
- Batter will be smooth and very runny.
- Pour into prepared pan.
- Cook for 20-30 minutes, depending on your oven–watch it starting at 20 minutes–when toothpick comes out clean–it is done. Do not overcook!
- Set cake on a wire rack and allow to cool for 5 minutes and then flip out onto a rack or serving plate to cool completely before frosting.
Chocoalte Butter Cream Frosting:
- Place butter in a mixing bowl and beat.
- Add pinch of salt, cocoa, powdered sugar and vanilla.
- Beating together on high for 3-4 minutes until fluffy…may need to add more cream or milk to reach desired consistency, I like mine fluffy.