Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, chocolate layer cake. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Chocolate Layer Cake is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Chocolate Layer Cake is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have chocolate layer cake using 23 ingredients and 17 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Chocolate Layer Cake:
- Get cake batter
- Make ready cake flour
- Get all-purpose flour
- Get unsweetened cocoa powder, I use Hersheys special dark
- Take granulated sugar
- Prepare eggs
- Prepare heavy cream
- Take cooled brewed espresso
- Get baking powder
- Make ready baking soda
- Take salt
- Prepare mayonnaise
- Make ready vegetable oil
- Prepare pure vanilla extract
- Take chocolate buttercream frosting
- Make ready bakers chocolate, unsweetened, melted
- Make ready unsalted butter, softened. 8 ounce total
- Get powdered sugar
- Make ready pure vanilla extract
- Take heavy cream
- Take salt
- Take cayenne pepper
- Make ready unsweetened cocoa powder
Steps to make Chocolate Layer Cake:
- In a large mixing bowl, beat all wet in ingredients together on medium speed until well blended.
- In another bowl, mix together all the dry ingredients.
- Slowly add to wet on low speed until just incorporated.
- Grease and flour two 9" cake pans. You may use some cocoa powder instead of flour.
- Place in a preheated 350°F Fahrenheit oven. Bake for 30-35 minutes until toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Set on cooling racks to cool 20 minutes before removing from cake pans.
- While cake is baking, start the frosting.
- Cream butter and sugar and cocoa powder together beating on medium speed for 3 minutes.
- Add in melted bakers chocolate, cream and mix.
- Add in other ingredients and beat on medium for 4 minutes.
- Refrigerate until cakes are cooled.
- On your serving platter, place one cake layer. To keep a clean platter, cut parchment paper into strips and place around cake.
- Take frosting and frost top of cake layer. Add second cake on top. Spread frosting on top and work down sides.
- You can take your time and work a smooth texture using an off set spatula. Or just frost using all the frosting and leave swirl marks.
- Top the cake with any decorations you wish. Today, I used crushed butterfinger candies. It helps hide mistakes ;)
- Serve and enjoy. Cake should be stored, covered and refrigerated.
- Recipe by taylor68too.
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