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Yellow Cake with Chocolate Frosting — American recipe
Yellow Cake with Chocolate Frosting, photographed for the Kitchen Pantri cookbook.

Yellow Cake with Chocolate Frosting

The classic birthday cake: two tender, buttery yellow layers made rich with extra egg yolks and buttermilk, filled and covered in a fluffy, deeply chocolatey cocoa buttercream. Made entirely from scratch in about an hour, plus cooling.

At a glance

Cuisine
American
Category
Dessert
Prep time
Cook time
Total time
Makes
1 9-inch layer cake
Calories
About 530 kcal per serving
Difficulty
Medium
Dietary
Vegetarian

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