We're celebrating the Mollidays! For Molly's birthday, I made a pink ombre cake with dark chocolate buttercream frosting. Mom and I had to go to the store to get 2 more cake pans so I'd have enough to bake all 4 layers at once. After mixing up 1 box of yellow cake mix, I poured the batter into 4 cups and added 1 drop of red food coloring to one, 3 drops to the next, and a about 8 drops to the last one. In retrospect, I should have added more than 1 drop to the first layer, as it turned out to be too pale.
Dark Chocolate Buttercream Frosting
Ingredients:
3.5 cups confectioner's sugar
1.5 cups unsweetened cocoa powder
12 tbs unsalted butter
10 tbs milk
2 tsp vanilla extract
2 tbs corn syrup
Combine sugar and cocoa powder in a bowl. In another bowl, cream together the butter and 1/2 cup of the cocoa mixture. Alternate stirring in milk and cocoa. Keep beating until it comes to the desired frosting consistency. Stir in the vanilla extract and corn syrup.
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