A Very, Very Chocolate Chocolate Layer Cake FUSF.
You can have A Very, Very Chocolate Chocolate Layer Cake FUSF using 21 ingredients and 19 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of A Very, Very Chocolate Chocolate Layer Cake FUSF
- It’s of For the chocolate cake.
- It’s 1 1/2 cups of ap flour.
- Prepare 3/4 cup of unsweetened cocoa.
- Prepare 1 1/2 cups of granulated sugar.
- It’s 1 1/4 tsp of baking soda.
- Prepare 3/4 tsp of baking powder.
- It’s 1 tsp of kosher salt.
- You need 3/4 cup of buttermilk.
- You need 1/2 cup of water.
- You need 1/4 cup of canola oil.
- It’s 1 of tblsp espresso powder.
- Prepare 2 of eggs.
- You need 1 tsp of vanilla.
- You need of For the chocolate buttercream frosting.
- Prepare 3 sticks of softened butter.
- Prepare 1 cup of unsweetened cocoa.
- Prepare 1/2 cup of whole milk.
- You need 1/2 tsp of kosher salt.
- It’s 1 of tblsp espresso powder.
- It’s 5 cups of confectioners sugar.
- It’s 1 tsp of vanilla.
A Very, Very Chocolate Chocolate Layer Cake FUSF instructions
- Cake.
- Preheat oven to 325.
- Prepare 9 inch cake pans by buttering, lining bottom with parchment and then buttering and dusting with flour.
- Sift the cocoa and flour together and then add the rest of the dry ingredients. Mix well.
- Add eggs one at a time.
- Add buttermilk, oil and water.
- Add espresso powder and vanilla.
- Pour into pans evenly and bake for 22-28 minutes.
- Remove from oven, place on cooling rack. Let cool in pans for 15 minutes and then turn out onto cooling rack, then remove parchment rounds.
- Let cool completely and frost with chocolate frosting.
- Frosting.
- Pour cocoa into mixer bowl and blend to break up lumps.
- Add butter and cream thoroughly, about 3 minutes.
- Add salt and espresso powder. Blend completely.
- Add sugar one cup at a time on low speed. After each addition of sugar add a little of the milk. Scrape down sides of bowl and turn speed to high for one minute.
- Repeat with remaining sugar and milk.
- Add vanilla and blend thoroughly. Add additional milk if needed.
- Frost cake, refrigerate for an hour to set icing..
- Serve with chocolate ice cream, just because.