Chocolate Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

For the cake
• 2 cups granulated sugar
• 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 3/4 cup Hershey’s Unsweetened Cocoa
• 1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
• 1 1/2 tsp. baking soda
• 1 tsp. salt
• 2 large eggs
• 1 cup 1% buttermilk
• 1/2 cup corn oil
• 2 tsp. pure vanilla extract
• 1 cup boiling water

Heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour two 9-inch round baking pans.

Stir together sugar, flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a large mixing bowl. Add eggs, buttermilk, oil and vanilla and beat on medium speed for 2 minutes. Stir in boiling water and mix well – the batter will be thin. Pour batter into prepared pans.

Bake 30-35 minutes until a wooden toothpick coes out clean. Cool 10 minutes in the pans and then remove onto wire racks to cool completely. Frost with cream cheese frosting.


For the Cream Cheese Frosting:
• 1 pound reduced fat cream cheese, softened
• 2 sticks unsalted butter, softened
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• 4 1/2 cups powdered sugar

In a large mixing bowl, beat the cream cheese, butter and vanilla together until smooth. Add the sugar and on low speed, beat until incorporated. Increase the speed to high and mix until very light and fluffy.

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