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Old-Fashioned Chocolate Layer Cake
Ingredients
  • subheading: CAKE:
  • 12 tablespoons unsalted butter (1 ½ sticks), very soft, plus extra for greasing pans
  • 1 ¾ cups unbleached all-purpose flour (8 ¾ ounces), plus extra for dusting pans
  • 4 ounces unsweetened chocolate, coarsely chopped
  • ¼ cup Dutch-processed cocoa (¾ ounce)
  • ½ cup hot water
  • 1 ¾ cups sugar (12 ¼ ounces)
  • 1 ½ teaspoons baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon table salt
  • 1 cup buttermilk
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 4 large eggs
  • 2 large egg yolks
  • subheading: FROSTING:
  • 16 ounces semisweet chocolate, finely chopped
  • 8 tablespoons unsalted butter (1 stick)
  • ⅓ cup sugar
  • 2 tablespoons corn syrup
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • ¼ teaspoon table salt
  • 1 ¼ cups heavy cream (cold)
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