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Delicious Chocolate Buttermilk Cake with Vanilla Cream Cheese Frosting- Recipe

This was my first cake recipe requiring buttermilk, so I was very excited to give it a try.

I used buttermilk in homemade waffles and liked the results, so I did not doubt that this cake would turn out great as well.

I also liked the combination of Vanilla Cream Cheese frosting and the chocolate cake.  I like the taste and texture of cream cheese frosting.

How about you?

Please let us know what is your favorite cake frosting.

Chocolate cake with cream cheese icing - one serving

 

Delicious Chocolate Buttermilk Cake with Vanilla Cream Cheese Frosting- Recipe

Delicious Chocolate Buttermilk Cake with Vanilla Cream Cheese Frosting- Recipe

Ingredients

  • 2 cups all-purpose flour, sifted
  • 1 cup cocoa powder, unsweetened
  • 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 3/4 cups granulated sugar
  • 3/4 cup unsalted butter, softened
  • 3 large eggs
  • 1 1/2 cups buttermilk
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract
  • Filling Ingredients:
  • 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
  • 8 oz (1 package) original cream cheese (not light), softened
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract ( I used 1 tsp. vanilla and 1 tsp Bailey's Irish Cream)
  • 1 lbs of confectioner's sugar = 3 1/2 cups

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
  2. Grease and flour, two 9 inch round cake pans.
  3. In a medium bowl, combine sifted flour, cocoa, baking soda, and salt.
  4. Incorporate evenly together with a fork, or hand whisk.
  5. In a separate container mix the buttermilk and vanilla, and set aside.
  6. Place sugar and butter in a large mixer bowl, and beat on low until blended.
  7. Beat at least 3 minutes on high, or until a creamy mixture forms.
  8. Scrape the sides and blend into the mixture.
  9. Add one egg at a time and mix at low speed until all mixed in well.
  10. Slowly add flour mixture, alternating it with buttermilk mixture, until blended (begin with flour and end with flour).  Scrape the sides and blend into the mixture. (The batter will be the consistency of cake filling).
  11. Pour equal half of the batter into the prepared pans.
  12. Place pans on the middle oven rack, and bake for 30 minutes, or until the toothpick test comes out clean. (one of my cakes baked for 30 minutes, and the other one for 35 minutes).
  13. Remove from the oven.
  14. Cool in pans for 10 minutes.
  15. Invert from pans onto a wire cooling rack to cool completely.
  16. Filling Directions:
  17. In a large mixer bowl, beat at medium-high speed, butter and cream cheese, until uniform cream
  18. mixture develops.
  19. Add the vanilla, and continue beating until fluffy.
  20. Reduce speed to low, and gradually add the powdered (confectioner) sugar until blended.
  21. Beat on high for 2 minutes until light and creamy.
  22. Cake Assembly:
  23. Slice each cake into two equal halves, horizontally (4 disks all together).
  24. Place one of the halves on a cake plate (I place one piece of waxed paper under each side of the first cake layer,  to protect the cake plate from being smudged with icing.  Once the cake icing is completed, I gently pull out each piece of the paper, and discard them).
  25. I also prepare a cake soaking punch from 1/2 cup of water and 1 tsp vanilla, and sprinkle lightly each cake half, before spreading the filling.
  26. Place 1 cup of the cake filling on the soaked cake half, and spread evenly.
  27. Repeat the above process, until the last cake half (which is the bottom part of the second cake) is placed as a top layer, with the uncut bottom part up.
  28. Spread the remaining frosting all over the top and sides of the cake.
  29. Decorate to your preference. ( I swirled  slightly warmed chocolate ganache on the top of the cake, and formed a design with a fork. Then dabbed some chocolate ganache on the sides and followed the same process).

Notes

I was asked to double the icing recipe for this cake, so I did, however, I felt it was too much frosting of one kind, for one cake.  Others felt it was just the perfect combination between the sweetness of the frosting and the less sweet cake layers.

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