This chocolate cake with vanilla frosting was really easy and had super simple ingredients. I didn't even use my stand mixer for the cake part! I used it for the frosting though, because that makes life soooo much easier. The only "odd" ingredient is buttermilk, but I think I've mentioned before that they sell powdered buttermilk that works just as well and lasts so much longer. I had some green sprinkles left over from Christmas sugar cookies, so, ta-da!, the cake is now St. Patty's Day themed!
Awesome Chocolate Cake
from: Tasty Kitchen
- 2 cups Flour
- 2 cups Sugar
- ¼ teaspoons Salt
- 4 Tablespoons (heaping) Cocoa
- 2 sticks Butter
- 1 cup Boiling Water
- ½ cups Buttermilk
- 2 whole Beaten Eggs
- 1 teaspoon Baking Soda
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla
- In a mixing bowl, combine flour, sugar, and salt.
- In a saucepan, melt butter. Add cocoa. Stir together.
- Add boiling water, allow mixture to boil for 30 seconds, then turn off heat. Pour over flour mixture, and stir lightly to cool.
- In a measuring cup, pour the buttermilk and add beaten eggs, baking soda, and vanilla. Stir buttermilk mixture into butter/chocolate mixture. Pour into sheet cake pan and bake at 350-degrees for 20 minutes.
from: Tasty Kitchen
- 1 cup Milk
- 5 Tablespoons Flour
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla
- 1 cup Butter
- 1 cup Granulated Sugar (not Powdered Sugar!)
- In a small saucepan, whisk flour into milk and heat, stirring constantly, until it thickens.
- Remove from heat and let it cool to room temperature. (Make sure you let it cool all the way, you don't want to melt the butter, if you are in a rush put the pot in a pool of ice water to cool faster but make sure no water gets in the mix!)
- Stir in vanilla.
- While the mixture is cooling, cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy.
- Then add the cooled milk/flour/vanilla mixture and beat until it all combines and resembles whipped cream.
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