Chocolate Cake with Fudge Filling and Hershey's Frosting
This scrumptious Fudge-Filled Chocolate Cake with Hershey's Frosting is moist, fudgy cake with fudge filling and Hershey's frosting. Celebrate Valentine's Day this year with a gorgeous cake layered with rich chocolate flavor! Perfect with a few fresh strawberries or raspberries for a pop of color!
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Ingredients
For the cake:
- 1 ¾ cups all purpose flour
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- ¾ cups unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 ½ teaspoons baking soda
- ¾ teaspoon salt
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup buttermilk
- ½ cup butter melted
- 1 TBSP vanilla extract
- 1 cup hot coffee
For the fudge filling:
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/3 cup milk
- 5 TBSP butter
- 1 cup Ghirardelli chocolate baking chips
For the Hershey's Perfectly Chocolate Frosting:
- 1 stick butter melted
- ⅔ cup Hershey's cocoa powder
- ⅓ cup milk
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla
Instructions
For the cake:
- Preheat the oven to 350°.
- Grease and flour your two 9" cake pans, or grease and line with parchment paper circles.
- In your mixer, add the flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt and mix until combined.
- Add the eggs, melted butter, vanilla, and buttermilk, and mix until just combined.
- Remove the bowl from the mixer and stir the hot coffee into the batter by hand. The batter will be runny. It’s supposed to be.
- Pour into your cake pans and bake until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean with just a few bits of cake stuck to it. For my 3 layers in 7 inch pans, that was about 15 minutes. For 9 inch pans, that should be anywhere from 20-30 minutes. Start checking around 15 minutes.
- When you remove each cake from the oven, let it cool for 5 minutes, then run a knife around the edges of the pan, and carefully tip the pan over on a cooling rack.
- If you used parchment on the bottom you can remove it. Let cakes cool completely before frosting.
For the fudge filling:
- Put first three ingredients in a saucepan on low, let the sugar dissolve and then bring to a boil.
- Remove from heat and add the chocolate chips. With a wire whisk, mix until creamy and cooled.
For the Hershey’s frosting:
- Melt butter in large bowl, whisk or use electric hand-held mixer to blend in cocoa.
- Add one cup of powdered sugar, and a little milk, alternating between the two until both are used up and the frosting is creamy.
- Add vanilla and blend.
- Use to frost the top and sides of the cake.
- Garnish with Brach's cherry Hearts or your choice of candy if desired.
To assemble:
- Assemble with fudge frosting in between layers and then frost with Hershey's Perfectly Chocolate Frosting.