Best Chocolate Cake Around

I got this recipe from PW she uses it as a chocolate sheet cake but i decided to make it this time into a round two layer cake for Joe's moms birthday. You have to try it is the best chocolate cake I've ever made.





Ingredients
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 cups sugar
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 buttermilk
2 large eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp baking soda
2 sticks buter
4 heaping Tbs. cocoa powder

Icing
1 3/4 sticks butter
4 heaping Tbs cocoa powder
6 Tbs. milk
1 tsp vanilla
2 cups powdered sugar

Preheat oven to 350

In a large mixing bowl, combine the flour, sugar, and salt. Stir together and set aside.

In another bowl, mix the buttermilk, eggs, vanilla, and baking soda. Mix with a fork and set aside.

In a medium saucepan, melt the butter and add the cocoa. Whisk together to combine. Meanwhile,In a small measuring cup measure out 1 cup of water-microwave until boiling.When butter is melted. pour the boiling water in the pan. allow to boil for a moment, then turn off heat. Pour the chocolate mixture into the flour mixture. Stir together for a moment to cool the chocolate, then pour in the egg mixture. Stir together until smooth. Then pour equal amounts into greased 2- 9" round cake pans. Bake for 20 minutes or until cake tester comes out clean.


While cake is baking, make the icing. Melt the butter in a sauce pan over medium-low heat. Add the cocoa powder and stir until smooth. Add the milk and vanilla, then add the powdered sugar. Stir together.

When cake is done. Turn cakes over onto cake platter. Stack on on top of each other. Pour Chocolate icing over cake. I had extra icing left over. You can also, make cake in a large sheet pan instead of the round cake pans. Either way its delicious.