Ebony And Ivory Cake
From angelgirl94 14 years ago
- 25 minutes to make
- Serves 12
This is my dad's favorite cake. Moist chocolate cake with a creamy vanilla buttercream frosting.
Ingredients
- 2 cups cake flour shopping list
- 1 teaspoon baking powder shopping list
- 2 teaspoons baking soda shopping list
- 1 teaspoon salt shopping list
- 3/4 cup cocoa shopping list
- 3 eggs-room temperature shopping list
- 1 cup cold strong coffee shopping list
- 1 cup whole buttermilk-room temperature shopping list
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract shopping list
- 3/4 cup vegetable oil shopping list
- Frosting: shopping list
- 2 sticks butter-softened shopping list
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract shopping list
- 6 cups sifted powdered sugar shopping list
- 1/4 - 1/2 cup milk shopping list
How to make it
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
- Grease and flour two 9" round cake pans. Set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, sift together flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
- Add sugar and whisk until combined.
- Add eggs, coffee, buttermilk, vanilla, and oil.
- Beat on medium speed for 2 minutes.
- Pour batter into prepared cake pans.
- Bake for 25-30 minutes or until inserted toothpick comes out clean.
- Cool layers in pans for 10 minutes then turn out onto wire rack.
- Cool completely.
- Frosting:
- In a large mixing bowl, beat butter and vanilla extract until creamy.
- Add powdered sugar. Beat on low speed until combined.
- Slowly add milk while beating until mixture reaches desired spreading consistency.
- Turn mixer to high and whip frosting for two minutes.
- Spread on cake layers.
- Serve and enjoy!
- Suggestions:
- Frosting makes a great filling for homemade whoopie pies and sandwich cookies.
The Rating
Reviewed by 5 people-
i can tell this is wonderful!
midgelet
in Whereabouts loved it
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I will definitely be making this one; thanks so much, and five forks!
Deb
debbie919
in Manahawkin loved it
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Love the addition of buttermilk in the batter, the frosting sounds wonderful too!
juels
in Clayton loved it
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