Yost Chocolate Cake

• 1 cup buttermilk
• 1 cup vegetable oil
• 2 eggs
• 1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 cups white sugar
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup hot water
• 4 cups confectioners' sugar
• 1/2 cup heavy cream
• 1/2 cup butter at room temperature
• 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/4 teaspoon salt

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x13-inch cake pan.
2. Whisk buttermilk, vegetable oil, eggs, 1/3 cup cocoa powder, and 1 teaspoon vanilla extract in a bowl until smooth. Whisk flour, sugar, baking soda, and 1/2 teaspoon salt in a separate bowl. Add dry ingredients to buttermilk mixture and whisk in hot water. Spread batter in prepared cake pan.
3. Bake in the preheated oven until set and a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean or with moist crumbs, about 35 minutes. Let cool.
4. Beat confectioners' sugar, cream, butter, 1/4 cup cocoa powder, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract, and 1/4 teaspoon salt in a bowl using an electric mixer until frosting is smooth and creamy. Spread onto cooled cake.

buttermilk, vegetable oil, eggs, cocoa, vanilla, flour, white sugar, baking soda, salt, water, sugar, heavy cream, butter, cocoa, vanilla, salt

Taken from www.allrecipes.com/recipe/232225/yost-chocolate-cake/ (may not work)