Buttermilk Vanilla Cake with Old Fashioned Chocolate Frosting
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Serves: Serves 8 - 10
 
Moist, tender delicious vanilla buttermilk cake with old fashioned chocolate frosting.
Ingredients
  • Cake
  • 1 cup all purpose flour
  • 1 3/4 cups cake flour
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 2/3 cup vegetable oil
  • 1/3 cup vegetable shortening
  • 1 1/2 cups white sugar
  • 3 tablespoons vanilla
  • 1 vanilla bean - optional
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 1/2 cups buttermilk
  • Frosting
  • 3 - 3 1/2 cups confectioner's sugar
  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 2 tablespoons vegetable shortening
  • 3/4 cup cocoa
  • dash salt
  • 3 - 4 tablespoons heavy cream
Instructions
  1. Grease and flour, 2 - 8 inch pans. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Sift together the dry ingredients: flours, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Set aside.
  3. Add the oil, shortening with the sugar to a mixing bowl. Using the whip attachment beat until mixture is light, about 3 - 4 minutes. Add eggs one a time, beating well after each addition. Add vanilla.
  4. Put in half of the flour mixture and half of buttermilk. Mix until incorporated. Add remaining flour and buttermilk. Scrape sides of bowl down. Beat for 2 minutes on medium.
  5. Pour batter into prepared pans. Bake for 30 - 35 minutes or until cake springs lightly back when touched in the center. Remove from pans to a wire rack to cool.
  6. Frosting
  7. Add butter and shortening to a mixer bowl fitted with a whip attachment. Add 1 cup of the confectioners sugar. Beat until blended together. Add rest of the confectioner's sugar, cocoa, dash of salt and continue to beat. Add the heavy cream a tablespoon at a time until you get to the proper consistency. Whip for 5 minutes, scrapping down sides of bowl a couple of times. Frost cake. Refrigerate.
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Recipe by Recipes Food and Cooking at https://recipesfoodandcooking.com/2013/08/04/buttermilk-vanilla-cake-with-old-fashioned-chocolate-frosting/