Decadent Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Buttercream Frosting

Wed, 1 December 2021

Eoin Sheehan's Decadent Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Buttercream Frosting

Ingredients:
240g flour
400g sugar
100g cocoa powder
2 tsp baking powder
240g milk
1 tsp salt
225g oil
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract

Frosting:
225g butter
600g icing sugar
100g cocoa powder
100ml milk
1 tsp vanilla

Method:
1. Pre heat oven to 175oC.
2. Add the flour, sugar, cacao powder and salt through a sieve to a clean dry bowl. Gradually add the eggs, vanilla, oil & milk to the mix and stir into a smooth batter.
3. Split the batter into 2 and add to a lined and greased cake tins and 30-35 min until a inserted toothpick comes out dry.
4. For the butter cream: whisk the softened butter, sugar m, cocoa powder, milk and vanilla to a thickened buttercream consistency.
5. For a double layer cake, add a layer of buttercream on top of one cake, add the second cake on top and cover overall in buttercream.