Dark Chocolate Cake with Raspberry Buttercream and Sour Cream Chocolate Ganache: a 9-inch layer cake fit for the most extravagant occasion. It has many secrets: sour cream, bittersweet chocolate, and buttermilk among them.
French buttercream
Classic Lemon Buttercream Frosting
Classic Lemon Buttercream Frosting gets its smooth, citrusy tang from both lemon juice and lemon extract. It’s a French buttercream, which means its sweetened with a hot syrup that’s beaten into egg yolks, and then blended with butter. Easy-ish recipe (“-ish” because it requires a candy thermometer, and I know that scares some people).