The Best Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting
Dense, ultra-moist chocolate cake piled high with the best chocolate cream cheese frosting. This is a recipe you'll want to keep in your recipe book for years to come!
Servings: 20
Ingredients
For the Chocolate Cake
- 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 3/4 cup cocoa powder
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp kosher salt
- 1 cup light brown sugar
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 3/4 cup full-fat buttermilk
- 3/4 cup vegetable oil
- 2 large eggs at room temperature
- 1 Tbsp pure vanilla extract
- 1 Tbsp instant coffee
- 3/4 cup hot water
For the Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting
- 1 batch chocolate cream cheese frosting (linked above)
Instructions
For the Chocolate Cake
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease a 9x13-inch baking pan with cooking spray and line with parchment paper.
- Combine flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a large bowl.
- Combine the brown sugar, granulated sugar, buttermilk, and oil in a separate large bowl or in the bowl of a stand mixer. Beat on medium speed until the mixture is smooth and combined.
- Beat in eggs, one at a time, until combined. Beat in vanilla.
- Combine the instant coffee and water in a liquid measuring cup. With the mixer running on low speed, alternately add the dry ingredients and coffee mixture in 3 additions, starting and ending with the dry ingredients.
- On the last addition of the dry ingredients, stop mixing with the mixer and switch to a rubber spatula or wooden spoon to finish mixing until no streaks of flour remain.
- Pour the cake batter into your prepared pan and bake 25 to 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.
- Allow the cake to cool completely in the pan before removing to a wire rack.
For the Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting
- Prepare one batch of chocolate cream cheese frosting, and spread it on top of your cooled cake.
- Top with chocolate sprinkles or other decorations, if desired.