Rich Chocolate Cake
- Ready In:
- 1hr 25mins
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Yields:
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1 nine x thirteen cake
- Serves:
- 20
ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup unsweetened cocoa
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 2 cups sugar
- 4 large eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 1⁄3 cups milk
- silky chocolate butter frosting (Silky Chocolate Butter Frosting)
directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Grease 13 by 9" baking pan or three 8-inch round cake pans.
- In medium bowl,combine flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
- In large bowl, with mixer at low speed, beat butter and sugar until blended.
- Increase speed to high; beat until lght and fluffy, about 5 minutes.
- Reduce speed to medium-low; add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
- Beat in vanilla.
- Mixture may appear grainy.
- Reduce speed to low; add flour mixture alternately with milk, beginning and ending with flour mixture.
- Beat until batter is smooth, occasionally scraping bowl with rubber spatula.
- Pour batter into prepared pan.
- Bake until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, 40 to 45 minutes for 13 by 9" cake or about 30 minutes for 8-inch layers.
- Cool in pan on wire rack 10 minutes.
- Run thin knife around cake to loosen from sides of pan.
- Invert cake or layers onto rack to cool completely.
- Meanwhile, prepare Silky Chocolate Butter Frosting.
- Wait to spread frosting on cake until cake is completely cooled.
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Reviews
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I halved this and made a dozen cupcakes. Moist, rich, and chocolatey (I used a good quality cocoa)- they were great on their own AND also great frosted with whipped cream. I didn't cream the butter and sugar as long as recommended - maybe a minute - but still seemed excellent. Added eggs all at once too (maybe with a smaller batch it didn't matter).
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Sharlene~W
Campbell, California
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