A Dark Chocolate Birthday

A few weeks was my dad's birthday so I made him a birthday cake. It was a semi-homemade birthday cake. I used a box cake mix for the actual cake and made the frosting. I used a Pillsbury Moist Supreme Dark Chocolate cake mix. This was super moist and delicious. There is a cup of pudding in the cake mix to make it so moist. I bakes the cake in 2 8-inch round cake pans and found this dark chocolate frosting recipe.

One Bowl Chocolate Frosting

• 6 tablespoons butter, softened to room temperature
• 2 & 2/3 cups confectioner’s (powdered) sugar
• 1/2 cup cocoa
• 1/3 cup heavy whipping cream
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
  

In a medium-sized bowl, mix and beat all ingredients using an electric mixer. If icing seems too thick, add a touch more heavy cream until desired consistency is reached, taking care not to over-thin the icing. This recipe is enough to frost the top and center layer of two, stacked, 9-inch cake rounds (but not the sides) or the top of a 13×9x2-inch rectangular cake. If you are looking to frost the sides of the stacked cake rounds as well, consider doubling these amounts