Cooking On The Q With Shelli Best Ever Secret Ingredient Chocolate Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting

Ingredients for cake:

1 ½ cups sugar

1 ¾ cups all purpose flour

¾ cup Hersheys Cocoa powder

1 1/3 teaspoons baking powder

1 ½ teaspoons baking soda

½ teaspoon salt

2 room-temp eggs

1 cup milk

½ cup safflower oil (or other veggie oil)

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

1 cup boiling strong coffee

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350.

Pam up two 9-inch baking pans.

Mix together the dry ingredients.

Add the eggs, milk, oil, and vanilla, and beat on medium speed for 2 minutes.

Stir in the boiling hot strong coffee.

Pour evenly into pans.

Bake 30-35 minutes or until the knife comes out clean.

Let the cake cool inside the pans on baking racks

Frosting Ingredients:

(I double so it’s easy to ice the cake)

2 packs room-temp cream cheese (can use low fat)

2 sticks room temp butter

3-4 cups confectioners sugar

3 teaspoons vanilla

Frosting Directions:

In a mixer, beat cream cheese & butter at a slower speed for a few minutes.

Alternate adding in the sugar and vanilla.

Taste after 3 cups of sugar to see if it’s sweet enough for you. Nice to keep the cream cheese “tang”.

When all is added, beat at high speed until it’s nice and thick and creamy.

Assembly:

After it’s completely cooled, loosen the cake from the pans with a table knife, and remove.

Place first layer on a cake dish.

Frost, and then put the second layer on top.

Frost the entire cake.

Enjoy!