chocolate cake

original post: http://greedygirlcooks.blogspot.com/2016/01/ultimate-chocolate-cake.html

Adapted from one of the best chocolate cake recipes ever Ina Garten’s Beatty’s chocolate cake

Ingredients

1 ½ stick salted butter

2 cups sugar

2 eggs

1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour

1 cup dark cocoa powder

1 ½ teaspoon baking soda

1 cup butter milk

1 cup chocolate milk

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

¼ teaspoon almond extract

¼ teaspoon hazelnut extract

Nutella buttercream recipe: from "add a pinch"

Directions

For the cake

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees
• Prepare two 8 inch baking pans by roiling them and lining them with parchment paper
• Mix butter until it’s light and fluffy then add the sugar and mix until creamed together well
• Add eggs one at a time beat together then add vanilla, almond and hazelnut extract
• In a bowl combine flour, baking soda, and cocoa powder
• Add the flour mixture and buttermilk milk alternately to the creamed butter and eggs starting and ending with the flour mixture.
• Pour into prepared pans
• Bake for one hour or until the tester comes out clean
• Allow the cakes to cool completely before frosting with the Nutella buttercream
• Garnish with Ferrero rocher chocolates