Thursday, January 13, 2011

Chocolate Cake with Chocolate and Peanut Butter Cream Cheese Frosting

Very simple cake recipe.  So, easy you'll never buy a boxed cake mix or can of frosting again.  This is the recipe for a 2 layer cake, the cake I made was four layers.  Just double the cake batter portion to make it four layers, but don't make 4 layers at once, nothing good will come from that.

Pre-heat the oven to 350, margarine and flour two 9 inch cake pans

Cake Batter:
Sift these individually into the mixing bowl

1 3/4 cup of AP Flour
2 cups of sugar
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
3/4 cup of cocoa

Then add:
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup milk
1 cup boiling water

Mix until the dry and wet ingredients until incorporated, then add the boiling water.  Pour into cake pans and bake 25-30 minutes or until a tooth pick comes out of the center clean.  Cool and a baking rack and then wrap each cake in plastic wrap and let them sit (they'll get super moist).

Frosting:

Chocolate:
4 oz cream cheese (room temp)
1 pkg of confectioners sugar
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup margarine
3/4 cup cocoa (more if you desire)
1 tsp vanilla

Peanut Butter:
4 oz cream cheese (room temp)
1/2 cup confectioners sugar
1/2 cup milk
3/4 cup peanut butter
1/4 cup margarine

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