Cooked Vanilla Frosting (and my favorite chocolate cake) Recipe - (4.3/5)

Ingredients

• For the cake:
• 1-3/4 cup all-purpose flour (I use King Arthur Flour unbleached flour)
• 2 cups sugar
• 3/4 cups unsweetened cocoa
• 2 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp salt
• 2 large eggs
• 1 cup black coffee, cooled (I used a dark roast coffee. You can't taste the coffee, but the chocolate is deeper in flavor and richness with this ingredient
• 1 cup buttermilk (or 1 Tbsp lemon juice with milk to equal 1 cup; or 1 Tbsp vinegar with milk to equal 1 cup)
• 1/2 cup canola oil
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• For the cooked vanilla frosting:
• 5 Tbsp unbleached all-purpose flour (I use King Arthur brand)
• 1 cup milk
• 1 cup unsalted butter
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 1-2 tsp vanilla
• NOTE: I doubled these ingredients to be sure I had enough to frost a cake.