Chocolate Cake with Frosting

Dubbed the best chocolate cake recipe, it's similar to what I've tried before where I add hot water and use oil for the cake. It's a great cake base where frosting is needed, and frosting involves loads of butter so this feels healthier. HAHA.

I had a craving for a slice of homemade chocolate fudge cake after watching It's Complicated on Netflix. The cake looks sooo good.

I'm still not satisfied with this type of frosting though, feels like eating sugar. It frosts the cake well, but just that I feel like eating sugar. I really really should try my hand at swiss meringue buttercream or flour buttercream.

Ingredients for the cake

2 cups all-purpose flour
2 cups sugar
3/4 cup dutch processed cocoa powder
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 cup milk buttermilk
1/2 cup vegetable canola oil
2 large eggs
1 cup boiling water

Sift flour, cocoa powder baking soda and baking powder into a large bowl. Add the sugar and salt and mix well. In a separate bowl, add the oil, buttermilk and eggs and mix. Add this egg mixture into the big bowl. Once incorporated, add in the hot water. If using 2 x 7 inch round pans, bake at 180 degrees Celsius for 53 minutes. Cake will be quite thick if 7 inch pan is used.

Chocolate Buttercream Frosting

250g butter, room temperature
3 cups icing sugar
3/4 cup dutch processed cocoa powder, sifted

Beat butter using paddle attachment at medium speed until fluffy, about 2 minutes. Add icing sugar and cocoa and beat for a few more minutes at medium speed.

Yums. Only thing is, who to help me finish this since it's the start of Ramadan today? Haha

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