BEST CHOCOLATE CAKE EVER

 

Ingredients

•  all-purpose flour
•  sugar
•  unsweetened cocoa powder
•  baking powder
•  baking soda
•  salt
• coffee powder 
•  milk – you may additionally use buttermilk, almond milk, oat milk, or coconut milk
•  oil
•  eggs 
•  vanilla extract
•  boiling water

 Instructions 

Preheat the oven to 350º F.

 Prepare 9-inch cake pans with the aid of using spraying with baking spray or buttering and gently flouring.

 Whisk dry ingredients.

Add flour, sugar, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda, salt and coffee powder to a large bowl or the bowl of a stand mixer. Whisk through to combine or, till blended properly.

 Mix in moist ingredients.

 Add milk, vegetable oil, eggs, and vanilla to flour mixture and blend collectively on medium velocity till properly blended. Reduce speed and carefully add boiling water to the cake batter till properly blended.

 Bake.

 Distribute cake batter evenly among the 2 organized cake pans.

 Bake for 30-35 minutes, till a toothpick or cake tester inserted withinside the middle of the chocolate cake comes out clean.

 Frost. 

Remove from the oven and allow to chill for approximately 10 minutes, remove from the pan and cool completely.

 Frost with Chocolate Buttercream Frosting.

Chocolate Buttercream Frosting

Ingredients

•  butter – softened. I choose using salted butter.
•  unsweetened cocoa powder
•  confectioner’s sugar – powdered sugar
•  milk vanilla essence
• coffee powder 

 How to Make Chocolate Buttercream Frosting

To make this scrumptious frosting, you’ll need a big blending bowl or a bowl for a stand mixer.

 Add cocoa to the bowl or bowl of stand mixer. Whisk through the cocoa nicely to remove any lumps. Then, add softened butter to the bowl with cocoa. Cream collectively the butter and cocoa powder till well-combined.

 Next, alternately add sugar and milk to the cocoa mixture by adding 1 cup of sugar followed through approximately a tablespoon of milk. After every addition has been combined, flip mixer onto a HIGH pace for approximately a minute. Repeat till all sugar and milk had been added.

 This is important – It makes the frosting into fluffy, scrumptious perfection! 

Then add your vanilla extract and coffee powder and combine nicely. If your frosting seems too dry, add more milk, only one tablespoon at a time until it reaches the proper consistency. If it seems too moist and does not keep its form, add more confectioner’s sugar, simplest one tablespoon at a time till it reaches the proper consistency.

 Frost your cake or cupcakes as preferred and enjoy!