5 Stars is for the FROSTING. If you love a great chocolate malt or even Whoppers candy, this frosting is for you! I have tried the cake recipe and unfortunately I have to agree with others ... it is dry. I now use vanilla or yellow boxed cake mix and then make this frosting. Since then, this cake has been a hit! It's become a winter holiday staple for me because by using box cake mix it's quick & easy and it looks pretty with white snowflake sprinkles.

Meh ~ this was just ok. There are way better recipes out there for sure, although I would never resort to a box cake mix -- not even for my dog.

re: adhoc44, who's snoring? if you took a moment to read the recipe, you'd see that some of the butter is creamed in the cake batter and the rest of the butter is used in the frosting. Also, I see salt clearly listed in the ingredients.

Vanilla Cake Redux. The ingredient list also omits the salt. That's a big no-no!

Please note that the ingredient list calls for 3 1/4 STICKS unsalted butter or almost a full pound but the instructions call for only 3/4th cups butter. Somebody snored all the way through the editting! I will try the recipe again the next time I can afford real butter.

I didn't want to believe the first reviewer that the cake was dry. The recipe looked like it should not be dry with the butter, buttermilk, and 4 eggs, but the first words out of my families' mouth was, "This cake is dry!!" They did like the frosting and did not think it was too sweet. Very disappointing. I hate when a recipe fails because I am a pretty good baker. Don't waste you time on this cake.

Very disappointing recipe. The cake is dry and the frosting is too sweet. I couldn't eat an entire slice. Make a boxed vanilla cake instead, it's easier and tastes better then this recipe.