🍰🧈 Old-Fashioned Butter Cake with Chocolate Frosting
A classic, nostalgic butter cake—soft, rich, and tender—paired with a smooth, fudgy chocolate frosting. This is the kind of dessert that feels like it came straight from a vintage bakery table.
🛒 Ingredients:
🍰 Butter cake:
- 1½ cups all-purpose flour
- 1½ tsp baking powder
- ¼ tsp salt
- ¾ cup unsalted butter (softened)
- 1 cup sugar
- 3 large eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- ½ cup milk
🍫 Chocolate frosting:
- ½ cup butter (softened)
- 2/3 cup cocoa powder
- 2½ cups powdered sugar
- 1/3 cup milk (adjust for texture)
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Pinch of salt
👩🍳 Instructions:
1. Preheat oven
Set to 350°F (175°C).
Grease and line a round or square cake pan.
2. Make cake batter
In a bowl, whisk flour, baking powder, and salt.
In another bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
Add eggs one at a time, then vanilla.
Alternate adding dry ingredients and milk, mixing until smooth.
3. Bake
Pour batter into pan and smooth top.
Bake for 30–40 minutes, until a toothpick comes out clean.
Let cool completely before frosting.
🍫 Make frosting:
Beat butter until creamy.
Add cocoa powder and mix well.
Gradually add powdered sugar and milk until smooth and spreadable.
Stir in vanilla and salt.
🍰 Assemble:
Spread chocolate frosting over cooled cake.
Add swirls or simple smooth finish.
🍽️ Serve with:
- Milk 🥛
- Coffee ☕
- Vanilla ice cream 🍦
🔥 Flavor profile:
- 🧈 Rich, buttery crumb
- 🍰 Soft and tender texture
- 🍫 Deep, chocolatey frosting
- 🍯 Classic homemade sweetness
🔄 Variations:
- 🍓 Add strawberry jam layer inside
- 🍫 Double chocolate butter cake
- 🍋 Lemon butter cake with chocolate frosting twist
- 🥥 Coconut butter cake version
- 🍯 Salted caramel drizzle on top
💡 Tips:
- Room temperature butter = fluffy cake texture
- Don’t overmix once flour is added
- Cool completely before frosting (prevents melting)
- Frosting thickens as it sits
If you want, I can also give you a sheet pan bakery version, bundt cake variation, or a super moist “diner-style” butter cake upgrade.