Collector's Cocoa Cake
- Reviews 2
Ready In: 50 mins
Serves: 8-10
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1⁄3 cups water
- 3⁄4 cup hershey's cocoa
- 1 3⁄4 cups sugar
- 1 1⁄4 teaspoons baking soda
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 3⁄4 cup butter (1-1/2 sticks) or 3⁄4 cup margarine, softened (1-1/2 sticks)
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
One-Bowl Buttercream Frosting
- 6 tablespoons butter or 6 tablespoons margarine, softened
- 2 2⁄3 cups powdered sugar
- 1⁄2 cup hershey's cocoa or 1⁄2 cup Hershey's dutch-processed cocoa
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Fluffy Peanut Butter Frosting
- 1 cup milk
- 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1 cup sugar
- 1⁄2 cup reese's creamy peanut butter
- 1⁄2 cup vegetable shortening
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 dash salt
Directions
- Heat oven to 350°F.
- Butter and flour (2) 8-inch or 9-inch round baking pans.
- Beat butter and sugar in large bowl until fluffy.
- Add eggs and vanilla; beat 1 minute on medium speed of mixer.
- Stir together flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt; add alternately with water to butter to mixture, beating until well blended.
- Pour batter into prepared pans.
- Bake 35-40 minutes for 8" layers or 30-35 for 9" layers or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
- Cool 10 minutes; remove from pans to wire racks.
- Cool completely.
- Frost with One-Bowl Butter cream Frosting or Fluffy Peanut Butter Frosting.
- One Bowl Buttercream Frosting:
- Beat butter in medium bowl.
- Add powdered sugar and cocoa alternately with milk, beat to spreading consistency (additional milk may be needed.).
- Stir in vanilla.
- About 2 cups frosting.
- Fluffy Peanut Butter Frosting:
- Gradually stir milk into flour in small saucepan.
- Cook over low heat, stirring constantly, until very thick.
- Transfer to medium bowl; press plastic wrap directly on surface.
- Cool to room temperature, about 1/2 hour.(If you are going to use this frosting - make it while you bake the cake.
- Add sugar, peanut butter, shortening, vanilla and salt.
- Beat on high speed of mixer until frosting becomes fluffy and sugar is completely dissolved.
- About 3 cups frosting.
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