Yellow Butter Cake With Dark Chocolate Buttercream
- FOR THE YELLOW BUTTER CAKE:
- 4 cups Cake Flour
- 2 teaspoons Baking Powder
- 1-1/2 teaspoon Baking Soda
- 1 teaspoon Salt
- 2 sticks Unsalted Butter, Room Temperature
- 2 cups Sugar
- 2 teaspoons Vanilla Extract
- 4 whole Large Egg, Room Temperature
- 2 cups Buttermilk
- FOR THE DARK CHOCOLATE BUTTERCREAM:
- 2 sticks Unsalted Butter, Room Temperature
- 1 cup Dark Chocolate, Melted And Cooled Slightly
- 1-1/2 cup Confectioners Sugar
- 1 Tablespoon Heavy Cream
- Optional Topping: Fresh Raspberries
- For the cake:
- Preheat oven to 350 F. Grease three 9-inch cake pans and set aside.
- In a large bowl, sift the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Set aside.
- Beat butter and sugar together on medium speed in the bowl of a standing mixer until light and fluffy. Beat in vanilla, then eggs, one at a time, until blended.
- Reduce the speed to low and beat in buttermilk, until just combined. Then add flour mixture in three batches, mixing until each addition is just incorporated before adding the next.
- Pour the mixture into the prepared cake pans and spread evenly.
- Bake for 25 to 30 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted into the cake comes out clean. Cool in pans on a wire rack for about 10 minutes before inverting the cakes out of the pans onto the rack. Let them cool completely.
- To prepare buttercream, put butter into a medium-sized bowl and beat on high speed until fluffy. Add melted chocolate and sugar and beat until incorporated.
- Add cream and beat until you get to the right spreading consistency.
- To assemble the cake, place one cake layer on your serving plate and spread with 1/3 cup of the chocolate buttercream. Place another cake layer on top, and gently press down a little bit. Spread with another 1/3 cup of the buttercream. Place the final cake layer on top. Smear the remaining buttercream on the top and sides of the cake.
- To decorate, use an offset spatula to gently smear vertical lines from the bottom against the sides of the cake. Garnish with some raspberries.
- Recipe adapted from SmittenKitchen's Best Birthday Cake recipe.
flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, butter, sugar, vanilla, egg, buttermilk, butter, chocolate, confectioners sugar, heavy cream, fresh raspberries
Taken from tastykitchen.com/recipes/desserts/yellow-butter-cake-with-dark-chocolate-buttercream/ (may not work)