Tara's Chocolate Cake with Mocha Frosting

Soooo good. Nicole and I devoured it and we don’t even like chocolate cake!

ingredients

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Cake:
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Position rack in center of oven, preheat to 350. Line bottom of 9-inch round cake pan with 2-inch-high sides with parchment paper. Butter and flour sides of pan and parchment. Sift flour, bakind soda, and salt into medium bowl. Whisk 2/3 cup sugar and cocoa in another medium bowl to blend; add 1/3 c buttermilk and vanilla; whisk until smooth. Using electric mixer beat butter in large bowl until fluffy. Add 2/3 c sugar; beat until well blended. Beat in egg and egg yolk. Add buttermilk-cocoa mixture; beat to blend. Beat in flour mixture in 3 additions alternately with 1/3 c buttermilk in 2 additions. Transfer batter to pan.
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Bake 40 min.
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Frosting:
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Stir espresso powder and vanilla in small bowl until espresso dissolves. Stir chocolate in top of double broiler set over simmering water until melted and smooth. Remove form over water; cool. Using electric mixer, beat butter in large bowl until fluffy. Add espresso mixture and corn syrup; blend well, scraping down sides of bowl occasionally. Beat in melted chocolate, then powdered sugar in 3 addtitions. If frosting is very soft, freeze until firm enough to spread, stirring occasionally, about 10 min.