Chocolate Velvet Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting

With it’s deep red coloring, it’s hard to not notice a nice Red Velvet Cake.  But have you ever heard of a Chocolate Velvet Cake?  Me neither!

So when I found this cake recipe, I saved it to make it at a later date. The basis of this recipe starts with a standard chocolate cake mix with just a few added ingredients.  It’s quick and super easy to make.

The cake and icing recipe calls for adding a liquid butter flavoring instead of vanilla.  I wasn’t sure about this since I’ve never heard of it before.  But I did find it at Wal-Mart like mentioned in the Southern Plate post.

I have to say that when I added it to the icing part of this cake recipe, I really didn’t like it.  I could taste the artificial butter flavoring and it kinda tasted fake to me and not like real butter.

It wasn’t that drastic but I won’t use it in the icing next time.  I’d rather just stick to good old vanilla extract.

Other than the butter flavoring, I highly recommend this Chocolate Velvet Cake recipe.  I made the cake in a 13×9 baking dish instead of two rounds also.  The cake turned out so moist and the frosting is delicious.

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Chocolate Velvet Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting

Ingredients:

• 1 boxed chocolate cake mix
• 1 cup sour cream
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1/4 cup oil
• 3 eggs
• 1 - 2 teaspoon butter flavoring (or vanilla)
• 1 cup chocolate chips
• 2 heaping tablespoons cocoa powder, plus more for dusting pans
Icing:
• 8 oz cream cheese (room temp)
• 1 stick margarine or butter (room temp)
• 3 & 1/2 to 4 cups confectioner's sugar
• 1 - 2 teaspoon butter flavoring (or vanilla)

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Grease pans with shortening and dust with cocoa powder.
3. In an electric mixer, combine the cake mix, sour cream, milk, oil, eggs and butter flavoring. Mix about two minutes, or until well blended. Mix in the chocolate chips.
4. Pour in cake pan and cook for about 25 minutes.
For Icing:
5. Beat together the cream cheese and butter until well blended. Add sugar and mix until smooth.
6. Add butter flavoring and mix until well incorporated and icing is creamy. Ice cooled cake.

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Recipe adapted from Southern Plate.

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