Soft Yellow Cake with Old Fashion Chocolate Frosting. Yellow Cake is one of those classic recipes we should all know how to make from scratch. This cake is soft and moist, with the perfect combination of density and fluff to it. And when you top with with a rich, melt-in-your-mouth chocolate buttercream frosting, you know it's got to be good!

Simple ingredients that come together perfectly! Add second cake layer and pour remaining icing over the top. Push out frosting so it runs over the sides of the cake. You can have Soft Yellow Cake with Old Fashion Chocolate Frosting using 18 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Soft Yellow Cake with Old Fashion Chocolate Frosting

You need of Frosting.
It's 1/2 cup of room temp soft butter.
Prepare 2 2/3 cup of confectioners sugar sifted.
It's 3/4 cup of unsweetened cocoa sifted.
Prepare 1/4 cup of milk.
It's 1/2 teaspoon of butter vanilla flavor emulsion.
You need Pinch of salt.
Prepare of Yellow Cake.
You need 2 cup of AP Flour.
You need 1 tsp of Baking Powder.
Prepare 1 tsp of Baking Soda.
You need 1/2 tsp of salt.
You need 1 1/2 cup of sugar.
You need 2 sticks (1 cup) of butter room temp.
Prepare 2 of eggs.
Prepare 2 of egg yolks.
Prepare 2 tsp of vanilla.
It's 1 cup of vanilla yogurt.

Let cake stand until icing sets and loses its sheen. It's the kind of yellow cake I grew up eating, with homemade chocolate butter cream frosting, sprinkles and candles (yes yellow cake taste best with candles. I don't know why but it just does!) This yellow cake recipe is the stuff old school birthdays were made of. You know, when most moms actually made every birthday cake from scratch.

Soft Yellow Cake with Old Fashion Chocolate Frosting instructions

For frosting. In a mixer, cream butter until soft.
Add sifted confectioners sugar and cocoa powder. Mix well..
Add butter vanilla flavor and salt and milk. Make sure it’s well combined smooth and beautiful. Set aside for.
Preheat oven 325F.
Sift all dry ingredients. Set aside..
Cream together sugar and butter until smooth and fluffy.
Add eggs and yolks one at a time until just combined then add vanilla flavor.
Add dry ingredients until mixed in. After that fold in the yogurt!!.
Add to sprayed or parchment lined pans. Rest batter for 3-5 mins. Bake for 15-35 mins. Check from time to time to ensure even baking..
Let cool. Frost and enjoy. 😌.
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What goes better with a homemade yellow cake than good old-fashioned chocolate frosting?? I mean chocolate frosting is made for yellow cakes. It just seems so unethical when I see a yellow cake with another frosting. Fair warning: Once you have tried making this Yellow Cake with Chocolate Frosting, you will never be able to go back to a boxed cake mix or canned frosting again. This is the best yellow cake with chocolate buttercream I've ever had and I'm preeeeeetty sure you will agree.