ingredients

cake

• vanilla cake mix
• 2 sticks butter, room temperature
• 8 oz powdered sugar
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1/4 cup cocoa powder
• 2 tsp vanilla extract

*NOTE: dad said the frosting was too chocolatey and next time make frosting lathe way it says to on the powdered sugar box

instructions

1. Make the cake.
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2. Frost with chocolate buttercream. To make the buttercream, beat the butter, milk, cocoa powder, and half the powdered sugar on medium for several minutes, until mixture is smooth. Add in more powdered sugar (perhaps all) and more cocoa powder as needed.
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3. Frost the cake at room temperature with frosting at room temperature.

With some help from https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/11467-magnolia-bakerys-buttercream-vanilla-icing