Southern Fudge Cake
Moist, dense chocolate cake with a creamy fudgy icing
Ingredients
- 2 cups sugar
- 2 cups flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 cup butter
- 1 cup water
- 5 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
- ½ cup buttermilk - you can also use 1/2 cup of milk and a splash of vinegar
- 1 tsp vanilla
- ½ tsp espresso powder optional this gives it a deeper chocolate flavor so I recommend it
- 2 eggs beaten
- Icing
- ½ cup butter
- 5-6 tbs cocoa - I like mine super chocolately but you can scale this back for a less chocolately flavor
- ⅓ cup milk
- 2-3 cups powdered sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla
Instructions
- CAKE
- Whisk flour, sugar, and baking soda in a bowl and set aside
- Add butter, cocoa and water to a saucepan and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low as soon it starts to boil
- Add the flour mixture to the saucepan and whisk together to make sure sugar is dissolved
- Mix in buttermilk, vanilla and eggs and mix together really well
- Pour into a well greased 9X13 inch pan
- Bake at 400 degrees for about 20 minutes. This cake tastes best when the center almost feels undercooked. Make sure to take it out before the edges start to cook to much. They shouldn't be tough like a brownie. You want the whole cake to be soft and moist.
- Allow to cool for 30 minutes. You don't want the cake to be warm when you add the icing or it will melt.
- ICING
- Add butter, cocoa and milk to a saucepan and bring to a boil. Once it starts to boil turn to low
- Add powdered sugar and vanilla - For a thinner icing use less sugar. I like more of a thicker, fudgy icy so use 3 - 3.5 cups of powdered sugar
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