Brown Velvet Cake with Fluffy White Frosting
From lunasea 16 years agoIngredients
- Cake: shopping list
- 2 cups sifted cake flour shopping list
- 1 teaspoon baking soda shopping list
- 3/4 teaspoon salt shopping list
- 1/2 cup vegetable shortening shopping list
- 1 1/2 cups firmly packed light brown sugar shopping list
- 2 eggs shopping list
- 3 ounces unsweetened chocolate, melted shopping list
- 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons milk shopping list
- 1 teaspoon vanilla shopping list
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- Fluffy White Frosting: shopping list
- 2 egg whites shopping list
- 1 1/2 cups sugar shopping list
- 1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar shopping list
- 1/3 cup cold water shopping list
- 1 teaspoon vanilla shopping list
How to make it
- Cake Instructions:
- Sift together flour, baking soda and salt.
- Using an electric mixer, beat shortening and sugar in large bowl.
- Beat in eggs until mixture is very light and fluffy; stir in chocolate.
- Combine milk and vanilla.
- Alternately add dry ingredients and liquid to beaten egg mixture, beginning and ending with dry ingredients.
- After each addition, beat until smooth.
- Pour into 2 greased and floured 9-inch layer cake pans.
- Bake in 350 F oven for 25 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
- Cool in pan 10 minutes; remove from pan and cool thoroughly on rack.
- Spread Fluffy White Frosting between layers and on sides and top of cake.
- Makes one 9-inch layer cake.
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- Frosting Instructions:
- Mix all ingredients except vanilla in the top of a double boiler and set over boiling water.
- Beat constantly with rotary or electric beater until stiff peaks form, 4 to 7 minutes.
- Take off heat and add vanilla.
- Beat until of good spreading consistency.
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- Cake serves 12.
The Rating
Reviewed by 12 people-
Very yummy!
kimmer in Dunedin loved it -
wow!!!!!VICKIE----today you have really made my day!!
first time that i've heard of a brown velvet cake.Picture looks awesome!!!!!!!!
MUMTAZmumtazcatering in Gauteng loved it -
Thank you for this recipe! My daughter absolutely loves a great chocolate cake. She doesn't like any other sweets. . .I know, strange, but I am going to have to make this for her this weekend. =D
shandy in Tacoma loved it
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