Fudgy Chocolate Layer Cake
"A chocolate lover's dream!!!!!!!!!!!!"
photo by maxenlone
- Ready In:
- 1hr 15mins
- Ingredients:
- 15
- Yields:
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1 double-layer cake
ingredients
- 414.03 ml flour
- 236.59 ml minus 1 tbl. unsweetened cocoa powder
- 6.16 ml baking soda
- 0.61 ml salt
- 177.44 ml butter (or 1 1/2 sticks)
- 157.80 ml sugar
- 157.80 ml firmly packed brown sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 9.85 ml vanilla
- 354.88 ml buttermilk
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Frosting and Garnish
- 118.29 ml butter, softened
- 236.59 ml powdered sugar, sifted after measuring
- 85.04 g unsweetened chocolate, melted
- 9.85 ml vanilla
- chocolate shavings (to garnish)
directions
- Line bottoms of two 9" round cake pans with waxed paper.
- Grease paper and sides of pan.
- Dust with flour, set aside.
- In bowl, whisk flour, cocoa, soda and salt til mixed.
- In large mixing bowl, beat butter and sugars at medium-speed til light and fluffy.
- Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
- Add vanilla.
- On low speed, alternately beat in flour mixture and buttermilk just til blended.
- Divide batter equally into prepared pans.
- Bake in 350 oven for 25-30 minutes, or til a toothpick comes out clean.
- Cool in pans on wire rack for 10 minutes.
- Turn cakes out onto racks.
- Remove waxed paper.
- Turn layers top-side up, and cool completely.
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Frosting:
- Beat butter and powdered sugar on medium speed til light and fluffy.
- Add melted chocolate and vanilla.
- Continue beating til shiny and smooth.
- Place one cake onto serving platter.
- Spread with frosting.
- Top with remaining cake layer.
- Frost top and sides.
- Let cake stand for 30 minutes before topping with chocolate shavings, and before slicing.
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Reviews
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OMG! What an awesome cake! I made this for hubby's birthday, and got rave reviews! I made double frosting, so I could cover the sides, and it was best served from the fridge. A truly awesome recipe, that will be my staple choccie cake recipe from now on! -
I'm not a chocolate fan, but this is my favorite chocolate cake recipe. I use 1 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar to make the icing instead of a cup, but otherwise the recipe is the same. This cake will convert a non-chocolate lover... -
A very simple and very easy recipe - living in the UK, buttermilk is difficult to come by so I substituted cream of tarter dissolved in semi-skimmed milk and icing sugar for powder sugar - worked very well! -
Delicious fudge-like cake! I made this for my son's 20th birthday. The family loved it! I frosted with Peanut Butter Frosting recipe # 95853. I topped the cake with chopped peanut butter cups. Oh wow! I'll be making this again! Thanks! -
Awesome....wonderful chocolate flavor, wonderful frosting, No more box mixes this is truly ten times better. 10 stars
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Tweaks
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A very simple and very easy recipe - living in the UK, buttermilk is difficult to come by so I substituted cream of tarter dissolved in semi-skimmed milk and icing sugar for powder sugar - worked very well!
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This really IS a chocolate lover's dream come true! Some substitutions: I used margarine in place of the butter and soy milk + vinegar in place of the buttermilk, to kep it nondairy. I have little patience for brown sugar, since it always hardens on me, so I used brownulated. For the frosting, I didn't have enough unsweetened chocolate, so I wound up using semi-sweet baking chocolate... but it all worked out just fine, and the cake got rave reviews! Given my non-existent cake-frosting skills, I would have preferred to have a bit more frosting to work with, but that's just me, not the recipe. Thanks for posting!! Made for Photo Swap, Jan. '08.
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Wildflour
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Hello! Former caterer and restaurant owner taking life slower now and just enjoying photographing my food creations and blogging them! Pop on over to my blog to see over 800 of my recipes at Wildflour's Cottage Kitchen @ wildflourskitchen.com !
