1Sift cake flour, baking soda, and salt into a large mixing bowl.
2Add sugar and cocoa powder.
3Add eggs, buttermilk, and vegetable oil to the dry ingredients and mix with an electric hand mixer.
4In a separate bowl, mix boiling water, instant coffee, and vanilla extract.
5Pour the coffee mixture into the batter and mix to combine.
6Divide the batter equally into two 16cm round cake pans.
7Bake in a convection oven at 140 degrees Celsius for 60 minutes.
8Trim the dome top off the baked cakes.
9Prepare the cream cheese buttercream by mixing cream cheese, unsalted butter, icing sugar, vanilla extract, and lemon juice with an electric hand mixer.
10Frost the cakes, stack them, and decorate with sprinkles if desired.
Ingredients
2 cup cake flour
2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 2/3 cup sugar
70 g cocoa powder
2 egg
1 cup buttermilk
1 cup vegetable oil
1 cup boiling water
1 tsp instant coffee
1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
168 g cream cheese
112 g unsalted butter
285 g icing sugar
3/4 tsp vanilla extract
1 tbsp lemon juice
1 pinch confetti sprinkles (optional)
Equipment
siftermixing bowlelectric hand mixer16cm round cake pansovenwire cooling rackoffset spatula