Chocolate Buttermilk Cake

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Title: Chocolate Buttermilk Cake
Categories: Cakes, Chocolate
Yield: 16 servings

1 c Butter
2 1/4 c Sugar
2 Eggs
1 ts Vanilla
3 c Cake flour; sifted
2 ts Baking soda
1/3 c Cocoa
1 ts Salt
2 c Buttermilk

Recipe by: John Hampton---xfzr32a
Preheat oven to 350~f. Generously grease 2 (10-inch) round
cake pans. Lightly dust greased pans with a small amount
of sifted cocoa. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar
together until light and fluffy. Add eggs; beat
thoroughly. Add vanilla; blend well. Sift cake flour,
baking soda, cocoa and salt together. Add to creamed
mixture alternately with buttermilk; start and end with dry
ingredients. Beat well after each addition. Pour batter
into prepared pans. Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until cake
tests done. Cool cake in pans 10 minutes before turning
out onto wire racks. When cake is cool, spread with Fluffy
Filling between the layers and frost top and sides with a
chocolate frosting.

Fluffy Filling: 1/4 cup butter 3/4 cup sifted powdered
sugar 1 tbsp. cocoa 1 egg In a small bowl combine butter,
powdered sugar, cocoa and egg. Beat at high speed until
filling is fluffy and thick.

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