Recipe: Appetizing Chocolate Birthday Cake

Chocolate Birthday Cake.

You can prepare Chocolate Birthday Cake using 17 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Chocolate Birthday Cake

1. It's of butter.
2. You need of sugar.
3. It's of egg.
4. It's of vanilla.
5. It's of baking soda.
6. It's of baking powder.
7. You need of salt.
8. You need of cocoa.
9. You need of flour.
10. Prepare of buttermilk.
11. Prepare of icing.
12. You need of + 2 tbsp unsalted butter.
13. Prepare of salt.
14. Prepare of cocoa.
15. You need of vanilla.
16. It's of icing sugar.
17. You need of cream, milk, or water.

Chocolate Birthday Cake instructions

1. A not too dark chocolate cake that everone loves..
2. Grease and flour 8 in round pan. I line bottom with parchment. Heat oven to 350°F..
3. Cream butter and sugar, beat in egg, then vanilla. Mix in baking powder, soda and salt, and sifted cocoa. Stir in flour alternately with buttermilk..
4. Spread in pan and bake about 35 min, til top springs back when pressed in centre. Turn out onto rack to cool..
5. For icing, mix all ingredients til smooth, scrape down bowl and beat several minutes til light and fluffy. add more liquid or icing sugar if necessary. Spread on cooled cake..
6. For cupcakes, fill 12 cups three quarters full, and bake about 25 min. Easy to double the recipe to make a 2-layer cake for 12 people..