Deep Dark Chocolate Cake
From ambauer 17 years ago
- 30 minutes to make
- Serves 28
This light and satisfying chocolate cake goes well with the coffee cream cheese frosting. Modified from a recipe in "The Bake Sale" cookbook.
Ingredients
- 2 cups sugar shopping list
- 1¾ cups cake flour shopping list
- ¾ cup cocoa powder shopping list
- 1½ teasp baking powder shopping list
- 1½ teasp baking soda shopping list
- 1 teasp salt shopping list
- 2 eggs shopping list
- 1 cup milk shopping list
- ½ cup vegetable oil shopping list
- 2 teasp vanilla extract shopping list
- 2 oz unsweetened chocolate, melted shopping list
- 1 cup boiling water shopping list
How to make it
- Preheat oven to 350oF.
- Grease and flour two 9" round pans.
- In a large bowl, stir together sugar, flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
- Add eggs, milk, oil, melted chocolate, and vanilla. Beat on medium speed of electric mixer 2 minutes.
- Stir in water. Batter will be thin.
- Pour batter evenly into prepared pans.
- Bake 30 to 35 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
- Cool 10 minutes and remove from pans to wire racks to finish cooling.
- Frost.
bottom layer spread with truffle filling.
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Both layers before frosting.
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Preliminary frosting.
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Chocolate drizzle for decoration.
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Used a skewer to go through chocolate to create design.
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Piped frosting.
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alternate frosting before decoration
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Reviewed by 5 people-
Great post.Garnishing and frostin are really great.I can immagine how does it taste...
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Sounds fantastic! yum and double yum
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