Recipe: Appealing Chocolate Birthday Cake

Chocolate Birthday Cake.

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

Ingredients of Chocolate Birthday Cake

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

Chocolate Birthday Cake detailed

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..