My sweet, sweet hubby had a birthday today
Buying him a present is a nightmare for me every year. What do you get a man who has everything he wants? Socks? Underwear? A peaceful day away from his wife, little daughter and doggy from the devil?
Bingo!
Of course, i'm not sure when exactly he will ever actually get this peaceful day away from us, but it's the thought that counts, right? Right??
Now then, lets move on to my hubby's cake baked by me...
It was the most awesome cake ever.
I searched
As i studied both recipes, i noticed something very odd...the Extreme Chocolate Cake recipe and the One Bowl Chocolate Cake recipe sounded so much alike that i finally noticed that the recipes were the exact same recipes with one little difference: the the Extreme Chocolate Cake had a Chocolate Butter Cream Icing recipe attached to it.
The "Extreme" recipe won.
I really don't know who to attribute the recipe to....so, i'll just share it and you can call it whatever you'd like to to call it. I don't know how to do all of that fancy 'just print the recipe' thingy, so your stuck copying and pasting.
I'm going to call it:
Because, well, it really was the most amazing chocolate cake ever.
Ingredients for Cake
-2 cups of white sugar
-1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
-1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
-1 1/2 teaspoons of baking soda
-1 1/2 teaspoons of baking powder
-1 teaspoon salt
-2 eggs
~1 cup milk
~1/2 cup vegetable oil
~2 teaspoons of vanilla extract
~1 cup of boiling water
Ingredients for Chocolate Buttercream Icing
~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
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees (175 degrees C). Grease and flour two 9 inch cake pans.
2. 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 your prepared pans.
3. Bake for 30/35 minutes in the preheated oven, until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to cool completely.
4. To make the frosting, cream butter till light and fluffy. Stir in cocoa and confectioners' sugar alternately with the milk and vanilla. Beat to a spreading consistency of your liking.
5. Split the layers of cooled cake horizontally, cover the top of each layer with frosting and stack onto a serving plate. Frost the outside of cake.
My Notes:
~Can be baked in 2 round cake pans or a 9x13 cake pan. If you use a 9x13 baking pan, bake for 40 minutes. Since i used a 9x13 pan, i sprayed my pan only as i wasn't removing the cake from the pan.
~The cocoa powder was increased to 1 cup from 3/4 cup. I used Ghirardelli because it's what i had on hand.
~I used large eggs because that's what i had on hand.
~I used 2% milk as that's what i had on hand...i did worry about this, but no need to worry, friends. I doubt it made a difference.
~The batter will resemble soup after you pour the 1 cup of boiling water into the batter. Do your very best to ignore and not worry about this soupy-like batter, but be SURE to hand mix the batter together well after you pour the boiling water into the batter. I used a wooden spoon but i bet any kind of spoon would work.
~Some folks added a teaspoon of instant coffee to the boiling water before mixing with the cake mix. I didn't, but you can.
~Make sure that your oven is really the temperature it calls for by buying a stove temperature thing if you are not sure about how your oven heats. Do the tooth-pick test when taking the cake out and PLEASE don't overcook your cake. Really. Please don't overcook the cake.
~This cake will bake up high and perfect. Honest.
~This cake is even better the next day. Honest.
Happy, Happy Birthday to my sweet, amazing husband! Thank you for taking care of us and loving us like you do...you truly are a man of God and i thank Him every day for giving you to Emma and i. We love you to the moon and back!!
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