EXTREME CHOCOLATE CAKE


If you are a chocolate lover this recipe is for you, this cake is very rich & moist , & with the chocolate buttercream icing it is the perfect cake, it even works great for making cupcakes as well!  Enjoy!!!

2 cups white sugar
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
1 cup milk
1/2 cup vegetable oil
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 cup boiling water 

FOR FROSTING: 
3/4 cup butter
1 1/2 cups unsweetened cocoa powder
5 1/3 cups confectioners' sugar
2/3 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

DIRECTIONS

 
Preheat oven to 350.  Grease and flour two 9 inch cake pans.
Use the first set of ingredients to make the cake. In a medium bowl, stir together the sugar, flour, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Add the eggs, milk, oil and vanilla, mix for 3 minutes with an electric mixer. Stir in the boiling water by hand. Pour evenly into the two prepared pans.
Bake for 30 to 35 minutes in the preheated oven, until a toothpick inserted comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to cool completely.
To make the frosting, use the second set of ingredients. Cream butter until light and fluffy. Stir in the cocoa and confectioners' sugar alternately with the milk and vanilla. Beat to a spreading consistency.
Split the layers of cooled cake horizontally, cover the top of each layer with frosting, then stack them onto a serving plate. Frost the outside of the cake. 
                                                

                                                ** MY NOTES**

1.The cake batter WILL BE VERY THIN after you add the 1 cup of boiling water but dont worry it is fine!!! 

2. DO NOT fill your cake pans to the top with the batter because it WILL boil  over in your oven!!!! Only  fill your pans 1/2 to 3/4 of the way full of the batter and just to be sure put your pans on a cookie sheet to cook in the oven!!! 

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