# Moist Chocolate Cake with Cream Cheese Buttercream

- Servings: 1 cake
- Cook time: 60 min
- Category: Dessert
- Language: en

## 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)

## Instructions

1. Sift cake flour, baking soda, and salt into a large mixing bowl.
2. Add sugar and cocoa powder.
3. Add eggs, buttermilk, and vegetable oil to the dry ingredients and mix with an electric hand mixer.
4. In a separate bowl, mix boiling water, instant coffee, and vanilla extract.
5. Pour the coffee mixture into the batter and mix to combine.
6. Divide the batter equally into two 16cm round cake pans.
7. Bake in a convection oven at 140 degrees Celsius for 60 minutes.
8. Trim the dome top off the baked cakes.
9. Prepare the cream cheese buttercream by mixing cream cheese, unsalted butter, icing sugar, vanilla extract, and lemon juice with an electric hand mixer.
10. Frost the cakes, stack them, and decorate with sprinkles if desired.

## Equipment

- sifter
- mixing bowl
- electric hand mixer
- 16cm round cake pans
- oven
- wire cooling rack
- offset spatula

## Source

- Original video: https://www.tiktok.com/@sweetnestdownunder/video/7650362665986067732
- Creator: sweetnestdownunder
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/37497d43-bf21-4cc0-b61e-a1c70ace8f95
- Extracted: 2026-09-01

Extracted from the video by Clip Recipe (https://www.cliprecipe.com). Quantities and steps are as stated or shown in the video. Site guide for agents: https://www.cliprecipe.com/llms.txt