Name: Chocolate Cake
Yield: Serves 12-14
Ingredients: 1⅛ teaspoons vanilla extract; 1⅛ teaspoons baking powder; 2 cups flour; ½ teaspoon salt; ½ cup buttermilk or sour milk; 1⅛ teaspoons baking soda; ¾ cup unsweetened cocoa powder; 3 eggs; 8 tablespoons (1 stick) butter, brought to room temperature; 1½ cups sugar

Preparation info

Serves
12-14

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Welcome to Claire's

By Claire Criscuolo

Published 2014

About

This cake is wonderful and a big success any way we present it at Claire’s. We serve it plain or with our Buttercream Frosting or other imaginative frostings and glazes. Or we spoon sunflower seed butter or raspberry preserves over the top of the batter just before baking. Or we slice a fresh banana and push the slices into the batter before baking. We use about 20 quarts of this batter every day and it has only gotten more popular over th