2 cups cake flour or sifted all purpose flou
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 teaspoons baking soda
¾ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
2 cups sugar
1 cup hot coffee
1 cup canola oil
1 cup buttermilk
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
WHITE FROSTING (enough for 2 layer cake)
4 cups confectioners suger
2 sticks butter, softened
3 tablespoons heavy whipping cream
½ tablespoon vanilla extract
Method
- Preheat oven to 325
- In a large bowl whisk together dry ingredients.
- Add coffee, oil and buttermilk and mix until combined.
- Add eggs and vanilla and mix for another 2 minutes.
- Pour batter into two greased and floured 9-inch round baking pans.
- Bake for 30 minutes.
- Let cool in pans until warm and then remove from pans and allow to cool completely on a cooling rack.
- While cakes are cooling prepare frosting by creaming butter with a mixer.
- Slowly add in powdered sugar until mixture is thick, creamy and well combined.
- Mix in heavy whipping cream and vanilla extract.
- Frost cooled cakes.
- Serve.
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