🍫✨ Chocolate Cake with Vanilla Frosting ✨🍰
Soft, rich, and perfectly balanced with creamy vanilla frosting — this is the ultimate celebration cake you’ll want to make again and again!
🍩 Chocolate Cake Ingredients
- All-purpose flour – 6 cups (750 g)
- Granulated sugar – 4½ cups (900 g)
- Unsweetened cocoa powder – 2¼ cups (225 g)
- Baking powder – 4½ tsp
- Baking soda – 4½ tsp
- Salt – 1½ tsp
- Eggs – 6 large
- Vegetable oil – 1½ cups (360 ml)
- Milk – 3 cups (720 ml)
- Hot water or hot coffee – 3 cups (720 ml)
- Vanilla extract – 6 tsp
👩🍳 Chocolate Cake Preparation
- Preheat oven to 170°C. Grease and line three 8–9 inch cake pans.
- In a large bowl, mix flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
- Add eggs, oil, milk, and vanilla. Mix until smooth.
- Gradually stir in hot water or coffee (batter will be thin).
- Divide evenly into pans.
- Bake until a skewer inserted comes out clean.
- Let cakes cool completely before frosting.
🍦 Vanilla Frosting Ingredients
(Perfect for filling & covering)
- Unsalted butter (soft) – 3 cups (678 g)
- Powdered sugar – 12 cups (1.44 kg)
- Milk or whipping cream – 9–12 tbsp
- Vanilla extract – 6 tsp
- Salt – ½ tsp
🧁 Vanilla Frosting Preparation
- Beat butter until light and fluffy.
- Gradually add powdered sugar, mixing well.
- Add vanilla, salt, and milk slowly until smooth.
- Beat until creamy and spreadable.
🎂 Assembly
- Level cake layers if needed.
- Place first layer → spread frosting evenly.
- Add second layer → frost again.
- Top with third layer.
- Cover entire cake with frosting and decorate as desired.
💡 Pro Tip: Use hot coffee instead of water to enhance the chocolate flavor — it won’t taste like coffee, just richer!
❤️ Enjoy baking & sharing this delicious masterpiece!
