Easiest Way to Make Appetizing Soft Yellow Cake with Old Fashion Chocolate Frosting

Soft Yellow Cake with Old Fashion Chocolate Frosting. Cool on a wire rack before icing. To make icing, in top of a double boiler over simmering water, melt chocolate and stir in condensed milk. An easy to make super flavorful Old Fashioned Yellow Cake with Chocolate Frosting.

This classic yellow cake, with its buttery, tender crumb and a fluffy chocolate frosting, is perfect for any celebration. When the cakes are completely cool, place one cake, top side down so the flat, bottom is facing up. Carefully place the second layer on top of the frosting, again with the flat, bottom side facing up. You can have Soft Yellow Cake with Old Fashion Chocolate Frosting using 18 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Soft Yellow Cake with Old Fashion Chocolate Frosting

1. It's of Frosting*.
2. Prepare of room temp soft butter.
3. You need of confectioners sugar sifted.
4. Prepare of unsweetened cocoa sifted.
5. Prepare of milk.
6. Prepare of butter vanilla flavor emulsion.
7. It's of salt.
8. Prepare of Yellow Cake*.
9. Prepare of AP Flour.
10. Prepare of Baking Powder.
11. It's of Baking Soda.
12. Prepare of salt.
13. You need of sugar.
14. It's of butter room temp.
15. You need of eggs.
16. Prepare of egg yolks.
17. Prepare of vanilla.
18. It's of vanilla yogurt.

Use the homemade chocolate frosting to generously frost between the layers, on top, and around the sides of the yellow cake. You can try for a smooth look and pipe on swirls around the top, like I did here, or go for a more rustic look and simply swirl the frosting on thick with a knife. Using an electric mixer, beat the icing until it is a smooth spreadable consistency. Place the cake layers on a cake plate, icing the tops of each one and then pour the rest of the icing over the top and smooth down the sides.

Soft Yellow Cake with Old Fashion Chocolate Frosting step by step

1. For frosting. In a mixer, cream butter until soft.
2. Add sifted confectioners sugar and cocoa powder. Mix well..
3. Add butter vanilla flavor and salt and milk. Make sure it’s well combined smooth and beautiful. Set aside for.
4. Preheat oven 325F.
5. Sift all dry ingredients. Set aside..
6. Cream together sugar and butter until smooth and fluffy.
7. Add eggs and yolks one at a time until just combined then add vanilla flavor.
8. Add dry ingredients until mixed in. After that fold in the yogurt!!.
9. Add to sprayed or parchment lined pans. Rest batter for 3-5 mins. Bake for 15-35 mins. Check from time to time to ensure even baking..
10. Let cool. Frost and enjoy. 😌.
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Old Fashioned Yellow Cake with Chocolate Icing! It's the kind of yellow cake I grew up eating, with homemade chocolate butter cream frosting, sprinkles and candles (yes yellow cake taste best with candles. I don't know why but it just does!) This yellow cake recipe is the stuff old school birthdays were made of. You know, when most moms actually made every birthday cake from scratch. Moist buttery yellow cake, iced with a dark chocolate frosting.