Homey Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

Cake

  • 2 cups flour
  • 2 tbsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • ½ tso salt
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 2 cups water
  • 8 oz bittersweet chocolate like lindt tradition or valrhona
  • 6 tbsp butter
  • 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
  • 2 eggs

Frosting

 

  • 1 ½ cups sugar
  • 1 ½ whipping cream
  • 6 oz chocolate (see aove) ½ cupt butter
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350F

Spray 2 8” round spring-form pans with Pam. 

Sift flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt together.  Set aside.

Stir water and sugar in saucepan.  Bring to a boil and cook until sugar dissolves, about 2 minutes.  Transfer to a mixer bowl.  Add chocolate and butter and let stand, stirring occasionally, until melted.  Let sit for 15 minutes.  Add vanilla.

Add eggs to chocolate mixture and beat on medium heat until combined, about 10 seconds.  Add flour mixture and beat until smooth, scarping sides of bowl as needed. 

Divide batter between pans and bake 24-25 minutes.  Cool completely, about 2 hours.

Frosting:

Bring sugar and cream to a boil in a large pan over medium heat, stirring occasionally.  Reduce heat to low and cook 5 minutes.  Add chocolate, butter, vanilla.  Let stand, stirring occasionally, 10 minutes.

 

Transfer frosting to mixture bowl and beat until thick and glossing 8-10 minutes, scraping sides occasionally.  Frost cake.