Candy Corn Chocolate Cakes

Total Time: 1 hr 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 16
• 2 cups sugar
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 cup cocoa
• 1 cup vegetable oil
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 large eggs
• 1 cup buttermilk
• 1 cup hot water
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 3 1/2 cups buttercream frosting

Recipe

• 1 beat first 6 ingredients in a large bowl at medium speed with an electric mixer until blended.
• 2 stir in buttermilk.
• 3 stir together 1 cup hot water and baking soda; stir into batter.
• 4 stir in vanilla.
• 5 pour into 2 greased and floured 9-inch round cakepans.
• 6 bake at 350° for 30 to 40 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
• 7 cool in pans on wire racks 10 minutes; remove from pans, and cool completely on wire racks.
• 8 freeze layers 30 minutes.
• 9 cut each layer into 8 wedges.
• 10 stir orange food coloring into 1 1/2 cups frosting.
• 11 stir yellow food coloring into 1 1/4 cups frosting.
• 12 pipe frosting on top and sides of cake wedges to resemble candy corn.