chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream frosting
I found this recipe in a 1990’s Hershey’s Chocolate Cookbook. It is one of my favorite chocolate cake recipes. I also use this cake recipe as a base in many other chocolate cake recipes, tweaking it here and there as needed. I like to use a chocolate buttercream icing on this cake, but use any kind you like. One can never have too much chocolate! :)
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yield
12 serving(s)
prep time
15 Min
cook time
35 Min
method
Bake
Ingredients For chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream frosting
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½ stick unsalted butter, softened
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¼ cup crisco
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2 cups sugar
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1 teaspoon vanilla
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2 eggs
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1¾ cups cake flour
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¾ cup cocoa
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¾ teaspoon baking powder
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¾ teaspoon baking soda
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dash of salt
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1¾ cups whole milk
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chocolate buttercream frosting:
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½ cup unsalted butter, softened
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½ cup crisco
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¼ cup whole milk
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4 cups powdered sugar
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2 tablespoons cocoa
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1 teaspoon vanilla
How To Make chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream frosting
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1Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
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2Grease and flour a 13x9x2 inch baking pan or, two 8 or 9 inch round pans.
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3In a large mixing bowl, beat butter, Crisco, sugar, and vanilla until light and fluffy. Add eggs. Beat well
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4In another bowl, mix all the dry ingredients together; add to the butter-sugar mixture alternately the with milk. Blend well.
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5Pour batter into pan(s) and bake the oblong pan for 35-40 minutes and the round for 30-35 minutes or until wooden tooth pick inserted in center comes out clean. Remove from oven and cool on a wire rack. Ice cake with chocolate buttercream icing.
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6Chocolate Buttercream Icing: In a mixing bowl, with mixer on medium speed, cream the softened butter and Crisco until well blended.
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7Add the powdered sugar, cocoa, vanilla, and milk. Beat mixture until smooth and creamy; about 2-3 minutes. If icing appears a little too thick, add just a tad more milk; one teaspoon at a time. You do not want it too soft. You want a medium consistency. When icing is light and fluffy, you are ready to ice!
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