 voiceover today because I've had Braun Kitas now we're going to do these brownie layers we're going to start with two cups of self-rising flour now these scoops are half-cup scoops so it's going to take four if you're interested in getting these scoops if you don't have a set they're really awesome you can get them on our website and I'll show you that address in a few minutes now we're going to put in three-quarter cup first use cocoa so I like to add the dry ingredients first to this so that I can get them good and mixed okay the next step is add in two and a half cups of sugar with this recipe I do add one half cup more of sugar than I do flour because when you use cocoa it tends to dry out your cakes so I like to add a little extra sugar this is two and a half cups of granulated sugar and this is our last half cup going in now we're going to add three-quarter cups of vegetable oil and we're going to add one cup of water you can use milk but I prefer water okay now we got a little bit more oil so we're putting in a stick of butter which is a half cup of butter melted the next thing we're going to do is add three eggs at room temperature I beat these eggs up and put them in a pipe plate because they were in the refrigerator and I wanted them to come to room temperature pretty quick and that is a trick you can use and last but not least our vanilla extract can't go wrong putting in two teaspoons of vanilla extract instead of one and that's what I do here any mixer you really ought to make sure it's good and mixed up off the bottom of the bowl and so that's what we're doing here I'm just making sure that it's mixed in really good before I put it in my baking pans I pour this batter evenly in eight inch layer cake pans I like eight inch layers because they are a little bit higher when you ask the cake it just makes it prettier stacked cake alright we're going to bake these in the oven at 350 degrees for about 30 minutes you need to bake them until a toothpick comes out clean make sure you get them centered on your racks and do not over bake these cakes time to make the homemade frosting we're going to use butter evaporated milk vanilla powdered sugar and Hershey's cocoa always said that it was really hard to make a chocolate layer cake without it being dry and she's right lots of times they tend to be dry when you add powdered cocoa this cake will be dry if you over bake it but it will be delicious if you don't and you don't mind it being like a brownie inside made this cake one day when my brother was home from out of state and I wanted to make him a German chocolate cake for his birthday and I decided that I would invent a brownie layer for him and that's exactly what I did thank you so much for watching Colored Valley Cooks where we cook like mama did