Chocolate Cake with Hot Chocolate Frosting

Today was a wonderful day. My beautiful cousin Kelly had her baby shower today. She is due to give birth to a baby boy in January. I'm so excited. Kelly and her husband Jerry are some of the most amazing people in the world and have been there for me through a lot of rough times. I love them like no other.

My aunt and Jerry's mother asked if I would bake a few things for the shower. I wasn't the only one who baked something, but I went all out. This time I made brownies with chocolate chunks and chocolate cake with hot chocolate frosting. And it was delicious. At least I thought so and so did my other aunt and my mother. Jerry and his father seemed to like my brownies, which is always good. He texted me to tell me they were really good. It always makes me happy when people enjoy what I make.

I normally don't make cake. I'm more of a cupcake girl when it comes to the cake variety of things. I mean, as long as I'm baking something, I'm pretty much happy. It also gave me the opportunity to whip out my mixer which hasn't seen some love in a bit. I doubled the frosting recipe because there is never enough sometimes. Except I really should have tripled or quadrupled it. I literally had just enough to cover the entire cake and the inside layers. I was relieved that I had enough, but it would have been better to have a cushion of frosting! No worried about that though.

 

Chocolate Cake with Hot Chocolate Frosting

 

 

Ingredients:

[cake patter]

1 cup butter

1 3/4 cup sugar

3 eggs

1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla

2 1/2 cup milk

2 1/2 cup all-purpose flour

1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder

6 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder

1 teaspoon salt

[frosting]

2 cups heavy cream

6 packets of hot chocolate mix

 

Instructions:

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. In a separate bowl, mix together the flour, baking powder, unsweetened cocoa and salt together. Set aside.

 

Cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs one at time then stir in the vanilla. Beat in the flour mixture alternatively with the milk, mixing until it's just incorporated.

 

Pour into two round greased cake pans. Bake in the oven for 40-45 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.

 

After the cake cools, cut it in half horizontally so it becomes two layers. With the second layer, cut of the rounded top off the cake. Put off to the side.

 

Place the mixer bowl and whisk in the freezer for 15 minutes until cold. Beat the cream for two minutes on high. Mix in the packets of hot chocolate mix [I used dark chocolate Swiss Miss mix though you can use anything. Three packets equals 1/2 cup of hot chocolate mix.] and beat on high until stiff peaks form.

 

Frost the cake and its layers. Serve, eat and enjoy!!!

 

 

 

She doesn't even look pregnant!

 

So many presents!

 

Everything at the shower was very cute! They live in South Jersey so everything was Eagles and Flyers-themed!

 

Some of the best people in the world! And they're ridiculously cute together.