Chocolate Cake With Icing

Submitted by Captain_67

"Easy, Fast & Delicious ! You don't even need a mixer, I just use a whisk. What more needs to be said ?"

 

• Ready In: 50mins
• Ingredients: 17
• Yields: 1 Cake
• Serves: 8

ingredients

• Cake

• 1 cup all-purpose flour (sifted)
• 1 cup sugar
• 6 tablespoons cocoa powder
• 3⁄4 teaspoon baking powder
• 3⁄4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• 2 eggs
• 1⁄4 cup oil
• 1⁄2 cup milk
• 1⁄2 cup boiling water
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

• Icing

• 2 ounces cream cheese (softened)
• 1 tablespoon unsalted butter (softened)
• 1⁄4 cup cocoa
• 2⁄3 cup icing sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 1⁄2 tablespoons milk

directions

1. Cake:.
2. Preheat oven to 350°F.
3. Combine all dry ingredients in mixer bowl & mix well. Add eggs, milk, oil & vanilla & mix on low speed just until combined then slowly add hot water while mixing & stop when just combined. Pour batter evenly into greased & floured 9” cake pan & bake for around 30 to 35 minutes until toothpick comes out clean. Let cool for 15 minutes then turn out onto cooling rack to cool completely.
4. Icing:.
5. Combine cream cheese, butter, milk, vanilla & mix on medium speed until smooth. Add sugar a third of a cup at a time & continue to mix on medium speed until combined. Add cocoa & mix until combined & smooth.
6. Cut the cake in half when cool & spread half the icing on the bottom cake in a thin layer & the other half on top of the cake also in a thin layer or don’t cut the cake & put all the icing on top.

Reviews

[susie61]

delicious. i used dark cocoa and doubled the frosting recipe. frosting is fantastic! will make again and again. thanks for sharing.

 

[Marie Nixon]

The cocoa gives this one layer cake a really, really chocolatey flavor. I used 1/2 cup of boiling coffee instead of boiling water. It was easy and fast to put together.

 

[JenSpy]

I doubled the recipe to make a traditional layer cake. I just started baking from scratch. I had always used a box before. My husband was skeptical I could pull it off. He LOVED it. He even bragged to the women at work about how good it was. <br/><br/>I was wasn't sure the batter was correct since it was really thin, but it worked great. I think the addition of the boiling water at the end did something special. I just don't know what.