My husband was positively THRILLED when he saw this cake in the cake stand as he got home. He realized he had not eaten an old fashioned buttermilk chocolate cake since he was a boy. It just is not that common anymore. So we both dug in with a glass of milk (highly recommend the milk part) and got all our chocolate fix in one sitting. This was the very best cake I have ever tried! IT looks like a professional baker when it was really just me, an amateur! So much fun!
Check out what our friends over at Flavorite had to say about this:
“An old-fashioned chocolate cake so moist your guests will think it came from a bakery!”
Yessss! So true this tastes just like the bakery’s… only better!
Ingredients
1/2 cup Land O’ Lakes butter
1 1/2 cup Domino sugar
2 eggs
2 (1-oz.) squares Hershey’s unsweetened chocolate, melted
2 cups sifted Gold Medal cake flour
1 tsp. salt
1 cup Land O’ Lakes buttermilk
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1 tsp. baking soda
1 Tbsp. vinegar
Chocolate Frosting
1/2 cup Land O’ Lakes butter, softened
3 cups Domino confectioners’ sugar
3 (1-oz) squares Hershey’s unsweetened chocolate, melted
1 tsp. vanilla extract
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour 2 9-inch cake pans. Line bottom of pan with parchment paper.
In large bowl or standing mixer, cream butter until light and fluffy. Add sugar and beat until creamy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Stir in melted chocolate.
In separate bowl, combine four and salt. Add buttermilk and chocolate mixture, alternating. Stir in vanilla.
In small bowl, dissolve baking soda in vinegar. Slowly add this to the chocolate mixture. Mix just until blended. Do not over-mix.
Pour batter into prepared pans and bake for 30-35 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pans 10 minutes then remove from pans. Transfer to wire racks and cool completely before frosting.
Chocolate Frosting
In large mixing bowl, cream butter until light and fluffy. Slowly add sugar, 1/2 cup at a time, beating well between additions. Stir in chocolate and vanilla.
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Quick Tip: If the frosting is too thick, thin it with some half and half.
Thanks again to Flavorite for this amazing recipe.
Chocolate has an ingredient that reacts like caffeine.
Its Theobromine. That’s why pets CAN NOT have chocolate.
It increases their heartbeat and can cause heart problems.
No, I’m not a DR. but I wonder if he is having ‘caffeine’ withdrawals
if he doesn’t have chocolate? Just an idea.
Thank you for the recipe!!
You took the words right out of my mouth.
He could have Hypoglycemia which is the opposite of diabetes if I remember correctly. A mother in law of mine had it.