The Best Chocolate Cake with Buttercream Frosting

Name: The Best Chocolate Cake with Buttercream Frosting
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 55 min
Ingredients: Recipe makes a 9x13x2 inch pan OR an angel food cake pan; TIP: For a double layer cake; 2 cups sugar; 1 ¾ all purpose flour (I use GFJules (affiliate link)); ¾ cup Hershey’s Cocoa; 1 teaspoon baking powder; 2 teaspoons baking soda; 1 teaspoon salt; 2 eggs; 1 cup strong black coffee (I used decaf or 2 teaspoons powdered instant coffee plus 1 cup boiling water); 1 cup buttermilk or sour milk; ½ cup vegetable oil; 1 tsp vanilla extract; 1 1 lb box confectioner sugar (approx 3 3/4 cups); 2 tsp vanilla; 1/2 stick butter; 4 1/2 tbsp milk; 6 Tablespoons butter softened; 3/4 cup Hershey’s Cocoa; 1 teaspoon Vanilla extract; 2 2/3 cups powdered sugar; 4 to 6 Tablespoons milk

This is the only chocolate cake recipe you need! It is my entire family's go to cake... with Chocolate or Vanilla Buttercream Frosting. It has an amazing flavor and soft & moist texture. And both the buttercream frostings (but especially the chocolate if you're a chocolate fan!) are unreal! Perfect creamy texture and rich, not overly sweet, flavor.

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Moist, Chocolatey & beyond YUMMY!

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This cake is for all chocolate lovers!

It is an old-fashioned, made-from-scratch cake that is moist and chocolatey and sooooo good!

The recipe is from my Aunt and it’s a longtime family favorite. It’s that cake that my entire extended family makes whenever we need a cake — birthdays, holidays, random get togethers.

And it’s always served on Christmas Day!

So naturally, it is one of the first cakes we made gluten-free once my son was diagnosed with celiac disease.

It’s made with all the usual goods —

all purpose gluten-free flour (we use with GF Jules -affiliate link )

sugar

egg

Hershey cocoa (100% cacao unsweetened)

baking powder

baking soda

salt

canola oil

vanilla

coffee (we used a dark roast decaf)

and buttermilk (we made some!) for extra flavor and moistness.

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Back to the Chocolate Cake….

And it is the easiest ever!

All you do it mix the dry ingredients together, add in the wet ingredients and that’s it!

Pour or spoon into your cake pan and bake!

It’s frosted with a homemade classic buttercream frosting that is amaaaazing!

The Best Chocolate Frosting!

It’s made with 5 ingredients:

butter or dairy-free butter

cocoa powder (we use Hershey’s cocoa, 100% cacao unsweetened)

vanilla extract

powdered sugar (also known as confectioner’s sugar)

milk or dairy-free milk

And you just mix them together using an electric mixer until smooth and creamy!

It can also be made with vanilla buttercream frosting and both ways, it is delish!

Hope you love it as much as we do!

We’ve even made this cake as cupcakes and they are so good!

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