For
my birthday a couple of weeks ago, Mike surprised me with my favorite cake in the entire world - my Aunt Zena's chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream. My great aunt Zena used to make this cake for every birthday, and after she and my nona passed away, the "recipe" went to my mom. By "recipe," I mean "some of this," "more of this," and "a palmful of this." Luckily, my mom has perfected it and it's my absolute favorite. She's been kind enough to share it with Mike! Typically, it's been made with regular Hershey's cocoa powder, but Mike's started making it with Hershey's Special Dark cocoa powder, and it's absolutely amazing! Here's the recipe for the
chocolate cake, and today I'm so excited to share this super easy buttercream recipe:
Ingredients:
1 stick butter
2/3 cup cocoa powder
3 cups powdered sugar
1/3 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Directions:
1. Melt the butter.
2. Stir in cocoa powder.
3. Alternately beat in powdered sugar and milk.
4. Finish with vanilla extract.
21 comments:
I'm literally wanting this for breakfast - chocolate YUM!! xo, Biana -BlovedBoston
This cake was sooo yummy. Mike needs to make another one soon!
YUMMMM i agree with biana! i want to eat this NOW. xo jillian - cornflake dreams
Holy delciousness! Can I have this for breakfast?! <3
Green Fashionista
Oh this looks so good!!!!
This looks and sounds so yummy!!!
This sounds like the one my mom always made! Now I'm craving cake..
Looks delicious! I've never made frosting from scratch...yumm
looks like heaven!!! delishhhhh
YAY you shared it! This was so good.. and I'm super impressed that Mike made it!
OH. My. God. AHHHHHH That looks amazing i will HAVE to try that!
XO Ellen from Ask Away
www.askawayblog.com
it's almost my bday and this looks GLORIOUS!!
Omgosh that looks amazing! Happy belated birthday!! My birthday is at the end of this month!!!! Hmmmmmm!!!
Yum! I don't like chocolate cake and this looks amazing!
OMG. Do you have the cake recipe too?!
~Ashley @ A Cute Angle
acutelifestyle.blogspot.com
Holy moly woman, this looks AMAZING!!!
That looks amazing. Buttercream is my favorite. I love how it looks with the dark powder.
That looks delish, buttercream is by far the best frosting!
This looks so good! Buttercream frosting is the best, and I think chocolate buttercream would be even better!!
YUM! Cake is the way to my heart (especially with buttercream frosting) and this one looks delicious!
Thank you for sharing your family recipe :) It looks scrumptious.
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