To Die for Chocolate Cake
- Ready In:
- 40mins
- Ingredients:
- 18
- Yields:
-
1 cake
- Serves:
- 12
ingredients
-
Cake
- 1⁄2 cup butter
- 1⁄4 cup cocoa
- 1 cup water
- 1⁄2 cup oil (veggie or canola)
- 2 cups flour
- 2 cups sugar
- 2 eggs (at room temp)
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon (best you can find)
- 1⁄2 teaspoon table salt
- 1⁄2 cup buttermilk
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
-
FROSTING
- 1⁄2 cup butter
- 1⁄4 cup cocoa
- 1 tablespoon cocoa
- 1⁄3 cup buttermilk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 (16 ounce) box powdered sugar (3 1/2 cups/16 oz)
directions
- Melt butter, cocoa, water and oil -- bring to a simmer. To the hot mixture in a stand mixer, add remaining cake ingredients, mixing well after each addition.
- Pour into greased 10 1/2 by 15 1/2 pan (or jelly roll pan). Bake at 400 degrees for 20 minutes (check at 15). DO NOT OVER BAKE. Test with a toothpick at 15 minutes. Remove from oven and cool on a wire rack.
- While the cake is cooling, prepare frosting. Melt 1 stick butter, cocoa, buttermilk, vanilla and powdered sugar and mix well in stand mixer. Pour frosting on top of warm cake.
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