Chocolate Birthday Cake.
You can cook Chocolate Birthday Cake using 17 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Chocolate Birthday Cake
- Prepare of butter.
- You need of sugar.
- It’s of egg.
- Prepare of vanilla.
- It’s of baking soda.
- Prepare of baking powder.
- Prepare of salt.
- You need of cocoa.
- It’s of flour.
- You need of buttermilk.
- It’s of icing.
- It’s of + 2 tbsp unsalted butter.
- It’s of salt.
- You need of cocoa.
- It’s of vanilla.
- Prepare of icing sugar.
- You need of cream, milk, or water.
Chocolate Birthday Cake instructions
- A not too dark chocolate cake that everone loves..
- Grease and flour 8 in round pan. I line bottom with parchment. Heat oven to 350°F..
- Cream butter and sugar, beat in egg, then vanilla. Mix in baking powder, soda and salt, and sifted cocoa. Stir in flour alternately with buttermilk..
- Spread in pan and bake about 35 min, til top springs back when pressed in centre. Turn out onto rack to cool..
- For icing, mix all ingredients til smooth, scrape down bowl and beat several minutes til light and fluffy. add more liquid or icing sugar if necessary. Spread on cooled cake..
- For cupcakes, fill 12 cups three quarters full, and bake about 25 min. Easy to double the recipe to make a 2-layer cake for 12 people..