Rich Chocolate Cake

Total Time: 1 hr 25 mins Preparation Time: 45 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 cup unsweetened cocoa
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup butter, softened
• 2 cups sugar
• 4 large eggs
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1 1/3 cups milk
• silky chocolate butter frosting (silky chocolate butter frosting)

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350 degrees f.
• 2 grease 13 by 9" baking pan or three 8-inch round cake pans.
• 3 in medium bowl,combine flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
• 4 in large bowl, with mixer at low speed, beat butter and sugar until blended.
• 5 increase speed to high; beat until lght and fluffy, about 5 minutes.
• 6 reduce speed to medium-low; add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• 7 beat in vanilla.
• 8 mixture may appear grainy.
• 9 reduce speed to low; add flour mixture alternately with milk, beginning and ending with flour mixture.
• 10 beat until batter is smooth, occasionally scraping bowl with rubber spatula.
• 11 pour batter into prepared pan.
• 12 bake until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, 40 to 45 minutes for 13 by 9" cake or about 30 minutes for 8-inch layers.
• 13 cool in pan on wire rack 10 minutes.
• 14 run thin knife around cake to loosen from sides of pan.
• 15 invert cake or layers onto rack to cool completely.
• 16 meanwhile, prepare silky chocolate butter frosting.
• 17 wait to spread frosting on cake until cake is completely cooled.