Chocolate Cake with Colourful Whipped Vanilla Frosting

Here's what you'll need for the Chocolate Cake:

2 cups sugar
1 3/4 cups AP flour
3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
2 tsp baking soda
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp kosher salt
2 eggs
1 cup buttermilk (or 1 cup of milk and 1 tbsp white vinegar)
1 cup strong black coffee
1/2 cup melted butter or vegetable oil
2 tsp vanilla


Here's what you'll need for the Whipped Vanilla Frosting:

3 sticks + 2 tbsp salted butter, softened and cut into cubes
3 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
3 tbsp milk
1 tbsp vanilla
a pinch of salt


Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour two 9-inch baking pans.

In a large bowl, combine sugar, flour, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Mix on low until the dry ingredients are combined. Add the two eggs, buttermilk, coffee, melted butter or oil, and vanilla. Beat on medium speed for two minutes. Pour batter evenly into the two prepared pans (Note: The batter will be quite thin —but this is okay!).

Bake for 30-35 minutes or until a wooden toothpick comes out clean. I bake my two cakes for 35 minutes and they turned out nice and moist. Cool for 10 minutes, then remove the cakes from the pans and place on a wire rack until they are cooled completely.

While the cakes are cooling, you can whipped up the "Whipped Vanilla Frosting". In a medium bowl, mix butter on medium. The butter will become very pale and creamy. Add the confectioners' sugar, milk, vanilla, and salt, and mix on low for one minute, then on medium for 6 minutes. The frosting will be very light, creamy, fluffy, and delicious! Add food colouring if you want. I did a pastel rainbow frosting. Basically, I divided my frosting into two small bowls and made one a light turquoise frosting and the other a dark turquoise frosting. Here's a link to the tutorial I followed on Sweetapolita.

To assemble the cake, place one round cake on a cutting board. Place some frosting on top, spreading evenly with a spatula. Next, place the second round cake on top and frosting the top and sides —again spreading evenly. Add sprinkles or any other decorations that you desire! Enjoy :)