Yellow Cake with Chocolate Buttercream

Yellow Cake with Chocolate Buttercream

In all my baking books (which is quite a few) butter cake recipes are often the most dog eared with pages-stuck-together and splattered with batter from heavy use. They are just so versatile and delicious. This one is made in two standard 9-inch round cake pans. It’s covered in fluffy chocolate buttercream with confetti sprinkles and candles on top, which in my opinion makes it a proper (and nostalgic) birthday cake!

Yellow Cake with Chocolate Buttercream

If you’re a long-time reader, then you know I’ve always loved using small 6 and 7-inch round cake pans with my batter recipes – but I understand that not everyone will have those sizes in their bake ware collections. I developed this recipe with that in mind. The batter fits perfectly in two 9-inch cake pans and it won’t crown much in the oven, so you can probably skip leveling the cakes altogether!

Yellow Cake with Chocolate Buttercream

Is there anything better than chocolate buttercream? It is my weakness. I can’t tell you how much of this billowy frosting I ‘taste-tested’. (Yes I can, TOO MUCH!)

Yellow Cake with Chocolate Buttercream
Yellow Cake with Chocolate Buttercream

Our family has quite a few birthdays in fall months so I’m planning to give this recipe a real work out! It’s so easily adaptable to other flavors, too. My current favorite iteration is adding the zest of one orange and two teaspoons of orange oil to the batter, because I’m a chocolate with orange fan from waaaay back!

I developed this recipe for the American Butter Institute, and the recipe lives on their website Go Bold With Butter.

Yellow Cake with Chocolate Buttercream

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Sandra Lee
Sandra Lee
6 years ago

This looks like a winner@

beth
beth
6 years ago

The cake was very good. However the chocolate buttercream tasted more like cocoa butter cream. For me it was too much cocoa.

Katie
Katie
6 years ago

This cake looks great! Wish there were weight measurements instead of just volume, though 🙁 I'm rubbish at measuring flour in cups.

A Cup of Sprinkles
A Cup of Sprinkles
6 years ago

As much as I love buttercream decorated cakes with drips and everything, there's just something about classic chocolate or vanilla frosted cakes with a handful of sprinkles that makes them my favorite cakes 🙂

basketpam
basketpam
6 years ago

This cake looks so delicious and basic and good. Most likely you're too young to remember or even be around most likely when this one particular cake was on the market but in the early 80s one of the big cake mix companies, I think Betty Crocker came out with a "snack" cake version of a few cakes. My favorite was the yellow cake which was baked in an ovenproof (this is before microwave oven days, at least before the average person usually owned one, they were still a $1,000 and that was a FORTUNE then, you could buy a… Read more »

Mack
Mack
4 years ago

This recipe isn't on Go Bold With Butter anymore! i'd still really like to try it. Is there anywhere else I can find this recipe?

Heather Baird
Heather Baird
4 years ago
Reply to  Mack

Hi Mack, they had a site redesign, so the link changed. I've updated the links, or you could follow this one for the recipe:

https://goboldwithbutter.com/recipes/yellow-cake-with-chocolate-buttercream

Thanks!

Rachel
Rachel
1 year ago

Made this recipe into cupcakes with my daughter. They were soooo good! The cake is moist but light and fluffy at the same time and the frosting has the perfect amount of chocolate! This one is a keeper. Love all your posts.