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Yellow Birthday Cake with Milk Chocolate Frosting

December 31, 2016 by Modern Honey 212 Comments

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Yellow Cake with Chocolate Frosting The BEST Yellow Cake Recipe with Milk Chocolate Frosting. 5-Star Rated Recipe! www.modernhoney.com #yellowcake #homemadecake #cake #yellowcakechocolatefrosting #baking

Yellow Cake with Chocolate Frosting

The BEST Yellow Cake Recipe with Milk Chocolate Frosting. 5-Star Rated Recipe!

I was one of those kids that were counting down the minutes at my birthday party until I could blow out the candles and eat my big ol birthday cake. I wanted a piece with a thick layer of homemade chocolate frosting.

Yellow Cake with Chocolate Frosting The BEST Yellow Cake Recipe with Milk Chocolate Frosting. 5-Star Rated Recipe! www.modernhoney.com #yellowcake #homemadecake #cake #yellowcakechocolatefrosting #baking

This is literally the best yellow cake recipe. It is so flavorful, moist, and buttery! The homemade chocolate frosting is insanely rich and creamy and pairs perfectly with the homemade yellow cake. 

Yellow Cake with Chocolate Frosting The BEST Yellow Cake Recipe with Milk Chocolate Frosting. 5-Star Rated Recipe! www.modernhoney.com #yellowcake #homemadecake #cake #yellowcakechocolatefrosting #baking

It’s New Year’s Eve so let’s go out of 2016 with a huge yellow cake with chocolate buttercream because I see only green smoothies in my future….

Yellow Birthday Cake with Milk Chocolate Frosting by Modern Honey. Homemade Yellow Cake with Vanilla Pudding Mix to make it extra moist and flavorful. Rich chocolate buttercream is the perfect addition to this birthday cake.

If you read my last post about making a homemade yellow cake — Homemade Yellow Butter Cake, I went through many experiments to bring you these cake recipes. My pants just got tighter in an effort to bring you the perfect cake!

We had large cake testings to determine the winners of the unofficial homemade yellow cake recipe challenge.

Yellow Birthday Cake with Milk Chocolate Frosting by Modern Honey. Homemade Yellow Cake with Vanilla Pudding Mix to make it extra moist and flavorful. Rich chocolate buttercream is the perfect addition to this birthday cake.

The path to the Yellow Birthday Cake with Milk Chocolate Frosting…

The recipe that I posted a few days ago is for a traditional yellow butter cake.  I wanted to change it up a little and experiment with adding in some vanilla pudding mix. Since it is known to add a good amount of moisture to a cake, I was excited to see how it would affect the final product.

Yellow Birthday Cake with Milk Chocolate Frosting by Modern Honey. Homemade Yellow Cake with Vanilla Pudding Mix to make it extra moist and flavorful. Rich chocolate buttercream is the perfect addition to this birthday cake.

It not only made a denser, moister cake but also a flavorful one as well. It’s a small amount of pudding but was still a big difference-maker. This is truly THE BEST YELLOW CAKE EVER.

Yellow Birthday Cake with Milk Chocolate Frosting by Modern Honey. Homemade Yellow Cake with Vanilla Pudding Mix to make it extra moist and flavorful. Rich chocolate buttercream is the perfect addition to this birthday cake.

The chocolate buttercream recipe is one that I played with over the years and is now my go-to recipe. It has the perfect balance of rich chocolate, butter, and powdered sugar and isn’t over the top sweet. It truly is the greatest chocolate frosting. If you are a chocolate cake lover, you must try my Love at First Sight Chocolate Cake.

Add some colorful sprinkles to this Yellow Birthday Cake with Milk Chocolate Frosting if you want to make kids really happy.

Here are my favorite baking pans — USA Bakeware Round Cake Pan 8 inch and USA Bakeware Round Cake Pan 9 inch. 

A Wilton Angled Icing Spatula is the perfect tool to use to frost this cake.

Yellow Birthday Cake with Milk Chocolate Frosting by Modern Honey. Homemade Yellow Cake with Vanilla Pudding Mix to make it extra moist and flavorful. Rich chocolate buttercream is the perfect addition to this birthday cake.

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Yellow Birthday Cake with Milk Chocolate Frosting by Modern Honey. Homemade Yellow Cake with Vanilla Pudding Mix to make it extra moist and flavorful. Rich chocolate buttercream is the perfect addition to this birthday cake.
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Yellow Birthday Cake with Milk Chocolate Frosting
Prep Time
15 mins
Cook Time
20 mins
Total Time
35 mins
 
Homemade Yellow Birthday Cake with Milk Chocolate Frosting will be the cake everyone is begging for at the next birthday party.
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: yellow cake
Servings: 16
Author: Melissa Stadler, Modern Honey
Ingredients
  • 4 Large Eggs
  • 2/3 cup Whole Milk or Buttermilk
  • 1 teaspoon Vanilla
  • 2 1/4 cups Flour
  • 1 1/2 cups Sugar
  • 2 teaspoons Baking Powder
  • 3/4 teaspoon Salt
  • 1 cup Butter softened, cut into cubes
  • 2 Tablespoons Oil
  • 1/3 cup Vanilla Pudding Mix instant
Chocolate Buttercream Frosting:
  • 1 1/2 cups Butter softened
  • 1 cup Cocoa
  • 5 cups Powdered Sugar
  • 1/3 cup Cream Half n Half or Milk
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. In a small bowl, whisk together eggs, milk, and vanilla.
  3. In a standing mixer, stir together flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt.
  4. Beat the butter into the flour mixture, one cube at a time. Continue to beat until it resembles coarse crumbs.
  5. Add the 1/2 of the egg-milk mixture and oil and beat the batter is light and fluffy. Add remaining egg-milk mixture and vanilla pudding and mix just until combined.
  6. Take a spatula and scrape the sides of the bowl.
  7. Spread into greased 8 or 9-inch cake pans and smooth tops with a spatula.
  8. Bake for 16-22 minutes, depending on the depth of pans. If the cake layers are thin, they will cook for less time than the thicker layers.
  9. Let cakes cool. Run a knife around edge of cake pan and flip over. Frost with milk chocolate frosting.
  10. To make Chocolate Buttercream Frosting:
  11. In mixing bowl, cream together butter, cocoa, powdered Sugar, and cream until light and fluffy. You may want to add more cream or milk depending on consistency. Once the cake has cooled and has been removed from pans, frost each layer with frosting.
  12. Top with chocolate shavings, chocolate chips, sprinkles, M & M's or whatever your heart desires.
Recipe Notes
  • This recipe makes two 9-inch cake layers or three 8-inch cake layers. If you use three 8-inch cake pans, the layers will be thinner and will cook for less time. 
  • This is one baked good that gets even better the next day, if covered.

Happy Baking, my friends! xo

Homemade Yellow Butter Birthday Cake with Milk Chocolate Frosting. All the secrets and tips to make the perfect yellow butter cake plus the best ever recipe for chocolate buttercream frosting.

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Comments

  1. lisa says

    November 10, 2019 at 9:24 AM

    Hello Modern Honey have you made this with cake flour I know that it is a finer mill, and what would be the measurements for the cake flour if so, and would that mess up the recipe or would that make it more moist and softer.

    Thank you 🙏 so very much,

    please i would like to know before the holidays

    Reply
  2. john says

    November 12, 2019 at 6:06 AM

    5 stars
    Can you use a bundt pan for this recipe and if so what would you change in recipe? I like the idea of incorporating the pudding mix. How about using a bundt pan for your cupcake recipes?

    Thanks…

    Reply
    • Jamie says

      July 29, 2020 at 3:10 PM

      I was about to ask the same thing. Making a little birthday cake for my friend’s husband to surprise her with on her birthday trip…

      Reply
  3. Shannon says

    January 14, 2020 at 8:03 AM

    Should the butter be salted or unsalted??

    Reply
    • Jessica GLOVER says

      July 27, 2020 at 1:52 PM

      She said in an older post she used salted in this recipe

      Reply
  4. Stacie says

    January 18, 2020 at 7:04 AM

    5 stars
    Lovely cake as written! I’ve made many a yellow\ white cakes which come out dry or heavy. I’d say this is a perfect yellow birthday cake…for any day of the week 😉 thanks modern honey!!

    Reply
  5. Kathy says

    February 19, 2020 at 7:16 PM

    I’ve made this cake and your love at first bite chocolate cake many times, both are awesome. They are my family go-to birthday cakes! But now I need to make a strawberry cake. I was thinking of using this vanilla cake as my base and adding strawberry puree as I’ve seen in a few recipes. Do you have a suggestions on four or other alterations if I add a cup of the puree?

    Reply
  6. Heidi says

    June 23, 2020 at 11:04 PM

    Hello! Is there a possible substitute for the vanilla pudding? 🙂

    Reply
  7. Abigail Wenderson says

    September 3, 2020 at 6:51 AM

    Wow, such a great recipe, looking forward to try this on weekend. Thanks for sharing.

    Reply
  8. Christopher says

    September 25, 2020 at 8:59 AM

    5 stars
    This is my favorite yellow cake by far! But does anyone else question the baking times? I used two 9 inch pans and it took closer to 30 minutes.

    Reply
    • Havanna Kean says

      September 30, 2020 at 7:37 AM

      Me too… The cake was still spongy. Did you add the whole small box of Jello?

      Reply
    • V. John Kennedy says

      December 8, 2020 at 11:24 PM

      Hi, Yes, my baking time was similar- 30-35 minutes.

      Reply
  9. Lara says

    September 30, 2020 at 2:43 PM

    Are we supposed to use all-purpose flour or can we use cake flour? I’m excited to try this recipe. I’ve heard that using AP flour with the reverse creaming method results in a tough cake?

    Reply
  10. Lara says

    October 3, 2020 at 7:42 PM

    4 stars
    Delicious cake! I baked the batter in three 6×2″ pans and baked for almost 40 minutes and they rose up beautifully! I did feel the cake was kind of dense. I wish the instructions detailed how long to mix the flour-butter mixture with the first half of the wet ingredients. I didn’t try the frosting, so can’t comment on it!

    Reply
  11. Lindsey says

    November 17, 2020 at 6:31 PM

    How do you store the cake? My icing turned out pretty runny. Would it help if I put it in the refrigerator?

    Reply
    • Nadine A Chuba says

      December 15, 2020 at 7:52 PM

      Did you use butter or margarine? Too much liquid maybe. It’s not a runny frosting. Mine was really thick. I had to add more cream in order to make it spreadable. Next time if too runny add more powdered sugar.

      Reply
  12. Andrea says

    December 4, 2020 at 12:01 PM

    Do you add just the vanilla pudding mix powder itself or the prepared pudding? Thanks!

    Reply
    • Modern Honey says

      December 4, 2020 at 3:54 PM

      Hi there! You just add the pudding mix powder straight from the box. 🙂

      Reply
  13. Nadine says

    December 15, 2020 at 7:49 PM

    5 stars
    I baked for my husbands birthday. He loves yellow cake with chocolate frosting. This is a great easy recipe. I used Dutch cocoa powder which made the frosting so wonderful. I used 9-inch pans and cooking time was around 30 min. He loved the cake. Too bad we are getting over Covid and his taste buds aren’t 100%. I’ll be baking this again in the future.

    Reply
  14. Criss says

    February 6, 2021 at 12:36 PM

    VERY DELICIOUS. THIS IS DEFINATELY A KEEPER. Thank you ModernHoney

    Reply
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