How to Prepare Perfect A Very, Very Chocolate Chocolate Layer Cake FUSF

A Very, Very Chocolate Chocolate Layer Cake FUSF.

You can cook A Very, Very Chocolate Chocolate Layer Cake FUSF using 21 ingredients and 19 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of A Very, Very Chocolate Chocolate Layer Cake FUSF

1. You need of For the chocolate cake.
2. It's of ap flour.
3. It's of unsweetened cocoa.
4. Prepare of granulated sugar.
5. It's of baking soda.
6. Prepare of baking powder.
7. You need of kosher salt.
8. You need of buttermilk.
9. You need of water.
10. Prepare of canola oil.
11. You need of tblsp espresso powder.
12. Prepare of eggs.
13. Prepare of vanilla.
14. It's of For the chocolate buttercream frosting.
15. It's of softened butter.
16. You need of unsweetened cocoa.
17. You need of whole milk.
18. It's of kosher salt.
19. Prepare of tblsp espresso powder.
20. Prepare of confectioners sugar.
21. Prepare of vanilla.

A Very, Very Chocolate Chocolate Layer Cake FUSF step by step

1. Cake.
2. Preheat oven to 325.
3. Prepare 9 inch cake pans by buttering, lining bottom with parchment and then buttering and dusting with flour.
4. Sift the cocoa and flour together and then add the rest of the dry ingredients. Mix well.
5. Add eggs one at a time.
6. Add buttermilk, oil and water.
7. Add espresso powder and vanilla.
8. Pour into pans evenly and bake for 22-28 minutes.
9. Remove from oven, place on cooling rack. Let cool in pans for 15 minutes and then turn out onto cooling rack, then remove parchment rounds.
10. Let cool completely and frost with chocolate frosting.
11. Frosting.
12. Pour cocoa into mixer bowl and blend to break up lumps.
13. Add butter and cream thoroughly, about 3 minutes.
14. Add salt and espresso powder. Blend completely.
15. Add sugar one cup at a time on low speed. After each addition of sugar add a little of the milk. Scrape down sides of bowl and turn speed to high for one minute.
16. Repeat with remaining sugar and milk.
17. Add vanilla and blend thoroughly. Add additional milk if needed.
18. Frost cake, refrigerate for an hour to set icing..
19. Serve with chocolate ice cream, just because.