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ME GRIMLOCK CAKE — Yellow and chocolate layered cake with chocolate cream cheese frosting

Yellow Cake

2 cups flour
2 tsp baking powder
2.5 cups sugar
0.5 cup butter
3 eggs
1 tbs vanilla
0.5 tsp lemon extract
.75 milk

Butter and flour two 8″ round cake pans, lining the bottom with parchment

Sift flour and baking powder together and set aside

With the paddle attachment, cream butter and sugar together until fluffy, about five minutes on medium. Add eggs one at a time, beating until combined. Add vanilla and lemon extract. Beat until combined

Add flour and milk in three rounds, ending with flour. Mix until incorporated.

Divide between the two pans and bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes, or until tester inserted into the middle of the cake comes out clean. Let cool on wire rack.

Chocolate cake*

8 ounces unsweetened chocolate chopped
0.5 cups butter softened
2.5 cups sugar
3 eggs
1 tbs vanilla
2 cups flour
1 tbs baking powder
2 tsp baking soda
1 cup milk

Melt butter and chocolate together in medium saucepan over low heat, stirring continuously. When fully melted, remove from heat and set aside

With the paddle attachment, beat the sugar and eggs together until incorporated. Add vanilla. Add melted butter and chocolate, beating until just incorporated.

Add flour and milk in three rounds, ending with flour. Mix until incorporated.

Divide batter between two 8″ round cake tins and bake at 350 degrees F for 25 minutes or until cake tester comes out clean. Cool on wire racks

Chocolate cream cheese frosting

1 8 oz package of cream cheese, softened
0.5 cup butter, softened
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 tsp vanilla
4 cup powder sugar

Melt chocolate in heavy saucepan over low heat, stirring to get the lumps out.

With the paddle attachment, beat butter and cream cheese together until creamy, about five minutes. Add two cups of powdered sugar, beat, add melted chocolate, beat and add additional sugar to taste, up to four cups. Makes enough to frost a three-to-four layer cake.

*This is an experimental cake recipe, and only one of the initial two cakes came out, but if you have better luck, I think the dinobots would be appreciative of the wacky four layer cake.