Blackout Chocolate Cake

One way to make blackout cake

Ingredients:

3 cups all-purpose flour

3 cups granulated sugar

1 1/2 cups unsweetened cocoa powder

1 tablespoon baking soda

1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

1 1/2 teaspoons salt

4 large eggs

1 1/2 cups buttermilk

1 1/2 cups warm water

1/2 cup vegetable oil

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Method:

Preheat oven to 350

mix dry separately

add wet

bake for 30-35 minutes, and definitely check with a toothpick

Icing:

  Duncan Hines Chocolate Frosting (with Aldi's brand semi sweet morsels as garnish)

Now, this is a fairly large recipe, it makes about three cakes, so I chop it down when necessary.  For today's Blackout Cake, I made 1/3 of the recipe, as I am testing out different cakes for my daughter's up coming 2nd birthday.  For her actual birthday I will be making some buttercream frosting,  when I find the dopest, easiest recipe for that I'll update. Unless I want to have a feral animal on my hands, I'll have to make my own frosting.  It's been some time since I licked a spoon full of this pure concentrated chocolate, sugar sweetness known as packaged frosting, and lemme tell you, I immediately felt like Goldie Hawn in "Death becomes Her." 

As an extra garnish, and the flair that gives it the nom nom name "Blackout Cake," I coated the edges in chocolate icing and rolled/smashed semi sweet morsels on to the side.  It looks awesome, and I can tell you.....its fiiiirrreee.