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Copper Kettle's Favorite Chocolate Buttermilk Cake with Browned Butter Icing
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1-2 hrs
ingredients
Cake
1 cup butter
2 1/2 cups sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup cocoa powder
3 cups sifted cake flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
2 cups buttermilk
Browned Butter Icing
1/2 cup butter
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon salt
6 cups sifted confectioners' sugar
1/3 cup cream, more as needed
directions
Butter 3 round 9-inch cake pans, line bottoms with waxed paper, and butter again.
Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add vanilla. Sift together cocoa, flour, baking soda, and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk, beginning and ending with dry ingredients.
Pour into cake pans. Bake 25 to 30 minutes in preheated 350 degrees F oven. Let stand in pans 5 minutes. Remove from pans onto wire rack. Cool completely before frosting with browned butter icing.
For Icing: In saucepan, brown butter lightly over low heat, stirring constantly. Remove from heat; pour into mixing bowl. Add vanilla, salt, and half of confectioners' sugar; beat well. Add remainder of sugar alternately with cream, beating until smooth and of spreading consistency. Additional cream may be needed.
Spread between layers and on tops and sides of chocolate buttermilk cake.
cook's notes
This cake is delicious garnished with chopped pistachio nuts.
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Emiko, Missouri, USA
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