Ingredients
Cake:
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 1 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- 3 large eggs
- 2 1/2 cups cake flour
- 1 cup baking cocoa, sifted
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup instant chocolate pudding mix (small box)
- 2 1/4 cups buttermilk
- 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
Chocolate Icing:
- 1/2 cup water
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup baking cocoa, sifted
- 3 1/2 cups powdered sugar, sifted
Instructions
Cake:
Cake:
- Preheat regular, conventional oven to 350°.
- Beat sugar, butter & vanilla in large bowl.
- Beat in eggs.
- Mix in cake flour, baking cocoa, soda, salt, chocolate pudding and buttermilk.
- Stir in semi-sweet chocolate chips.
- Pour into greased tube pan.
- Bake in regular, conventional oven at 350° for 30 minutes.
- Adjust baking temperature down to 325° and continue baking 30-40 minutes more, until cake tester comes out clean.
- (Check with cake tester at the one hour mark.)
- Cool cake completely before icing.
- Heat water, butter and vanilla together in sauce pan on stove top until melted.
- Remove from heat.
- Stir in one cup cocoa.
- Stir in powdered sugar, sifted.
- Stir in heavy cream, up to 3 tablespoons (or more) until you get the desired consistency.
- Ice cake by filling the hole in the middle of the cake first, then spread icing over cake top and pour over the sides. Icing will harden as it cools.