Small Chocolate Cake

This easy recipe features a mini chocolate cake made from moist 6-inch cake layers filled with fudgy chocolate frosting!

What is a Small Chocolate Cake?

Oil Sour Cream Cocoa Powder Brewed Coffee Frosting

Key Ingredients:

1

Cream the sugar, oil, eggs, vanilla, and sour cream. Then mix dry ingredients and brewed coffee into the wet ingredients.

2

Pour batter into two greased and floured 6" cake pans and bake for 20-24 minutes.

3

Remove from oven and allow the cakes to cool completely.

4

While the cakes are cooling, whip together butter, cocoa powder, vanilla extract, powdered sugar, and heavy cream.

5

Level the cakes by trimming off any high domes using a serrated knife or a cake leveler.

6

Pipe frosting over bottom cake layer, then place second cake layer over top, and pipe frosting over top and sides.

7

Get creative with the remaining frosting and decorate as desired. Enjoy!

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