Chocolate Cake Brownie with Buttercream Frosting

My dad's birthday is at the end of this month and with some time on hand, I was thinking, why not try baking a cake. If it fails this time, at least I'd know what to do the next time and whether or not to tweak the ingredients. Got the recipe, again, from the oven mitt.

For the cake,


Ingredients:

2 cups of white sugar
1 1/2 cups of flour

1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
1 cup milk
1/2 cup vegetable oil
  2 teaspoons vanilla extract (vanilla essence can be used)
1 cup water


P.S. A cup is about 237ml. A normal drinking cup will do.


Preheat the oven to 176 degrees celsius. 

I preheated mine to 50 degrees celsius as I'd take a long time to mix the ingredients together.
Grease the pan/tray that you're going to bake the cake in with oil.

Sifting the flour, baking powder and baking soda, mix them together with the sugar and salt in a mixing bowl.

Add the eggs, milk, vegetable oil and vanilla extract to the previous ingredients and mix the batter on medium speed for about 2-3 minutes.

In a bowl/saucepan, add boiling water to the cocoa powder to create chocolate. Stir until all the powder has dissolved.

Add the chocolate to the cake mix and mix on medium speed for another minute.

The batter would be slightly thin.

Pour the batter onto your cake tray/pan that is already greased and bake for 30-35 minutes.

Leave the cake to cool for about 10-15 minutes.


As the cake cools, prepare the buttercream frosting!


Ingredients:

3 cups of confectioners’ sugar (icing sugar)
1 cup butter, softened (i used a cube)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 tablespoons of whipping cream

On medium speed, mix the sifted sugar and butter until you get a creamy and smooth texture.

Add in the vanilla extract and the whipping cream and continue blending until the mixture is well blended.

To assemble the cake, you'll need 2 layers of cake.

Set the first layer of cake, spread the buttercream, and pile on the second layer of cake.

Then, frost the whole cake.

If your cake mixture is slightly overbaked, like mine, you can make it brownie-style.

Cut the cake mixture into little square cubes and pipe on the buttercream any way you like.

Put on sprinklers and what not and you'll get what I've got!