Chocolate Birthday Cake (with buttercream). In a large mixing bowl, beat together the eggs, buttermilk, greek yogurt, canola oil, and vanilla until smooth. Add the flour, sugar, unsweetened cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder, and salt and mix until there are no longer any clumps of flour. Perfect Chocolate Buttercream Frosting is an essential when it comes to birthday cakes and other celebrations.
Invert the other layer, top side down, on the first layer peel off the paper. Spread the buttercream on the top and sides cake (Put the frosting in the center of the top of the cake and smooth it evenly. Each year for my birthday, I make sure to post an extra-special recipe on the blog. You can have Chocolate Birthday Cake (with buttercream) using 11 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Chocolate Birthday Cake (with buttercream)
- You need of sugar.
- You need of sugar.
- You need of cocoa powder (I use unsweetened).
- It's of baking powder.
- Prepare of baking soda.
- You need of salt.
- You need of buttermilk.
- Prepare of vegetal oil.
- It's of eggs.
- You need of vanilla paste/ extract.
- Prepare of expresso powder.
So, last year it was my maple pecan banana bread breakfast bake (not a cake, but special, trust me!). The year before that it was my beloved chocolate chip skillet cookies!! That recipe remains one of my favorites on the blog, in truth. Mash the butter and icing sugar together with a fork first, then switch to a wooden spoon or electric beaters if you have them.
Chocolate Birthday Cake (with buttercream) instructions
- Preheat oven at 350.
- Mix dry ingredients (Coffee wont add any flavor, it will only enhance the chocolate flavor).
- Mix wet ingredients and add them to the dry mixture..
- Mix in medium speed (just as necessary).
- Divide into 2 (or more) pans depending on size. (I used 2 pans of 8' each for the cake in the picture).
- Cook for 30-35 minutes. DONT OPEN OVEN DOOR until the 30 min mark and then check with a knife..
- Remove from oven.
- Let cool and assemble..
- Look for my buttercream recipe to fill it and top it!!.
Sift in the cocoa and pour in the melted chocolate, a pinch of salt and the milk, then mix again until smooth. Use to top cupcakes or cover and fill a chocolate sponge cake. In a large measuring cup, combine the buttermilk, coffee. Birthday Cake Recipes From chocolate or white cake to lemon and carrot cake, you'll find dozens of the best birthday cake recipes, just waiting to be decorated.. This chocolate buttercream is delicious in its own right and could go with all sorts of flavours of sponge, but it was designed to perfectly compliment my new chocolate cake.