Dark Chocolate Cake. This recipe features an icing made with cream cheese, cocoa, and cinnamon frosts this dark chocolate cake for an elegant dessert. I consider this 'perfect' chocolate cake. And today I made exactly this kind of cake - Dark Chocolate Cake.
Chocolate cake for dessert is my husband's apple pie.
He is a chocolate addict; a chocoholic.
He also likes a box chocolate cake in a pinch but now that I've made this HERSHEY'S "Especially Dark".
You can cook Dark Chocolate Cake using 17 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Dark Chocolate Cake
- Prepare 1/2 cup of unsweetened coco powder.
- It's 1 cup of all-purpose flour.
- Prepare 1 tsp of baking powder.
- Prepare 1/2 of baking soda.
- You need 1 pinch of salt.
- Prepare 1 cup of boiling water.
- You need 1/2 cup of butter,softened.
- It's 2 tbsp of butter, softened.
- Prepare 3/4 cup of white sugar.
- You need 1 tsp of vanila extract.
- It's 2 of large eggs.
- You need For of spiced ganache:.
- You need 1 cup of heavy cream.
- It's 1/2 tsp of vanila extract.
- Prepare 8 of ounches dark chocolate.
- It's 3/4 tsp of ground cinnamon.
- You need 1 pinch of salt.
This is the Dark Chocolate Cake of my DREAMS! Tender, moist homemade chocolate cake with the best smooth, rich, dark chocolate frosting. Basic unsweetened cocoa powder works great in most chocolate cake recipes. I used dark cocoa powder in this frosting as well as the cake.
Dark Chocolate Cake step by step
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease two 8-inch cake pans and dust with cocoa powder or spray with baking spray..
- Sift flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt for cake together in a bowl. Dissolve cocoa and brown sugar in the boiling water..
- Beat butter and sugar together in a separate bowl until creamy. Add vanilla extract. Add of the flour mixture and mix; add 1 egg and mix. Add remaining flour mixture and combine. Mix in remaining egg. Pour in cocoa mixture gradually and mix well until combined. Divide batter evenly between the prepared pans..
- Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of each cake comes out clean, 18 to 20 minutes. Let cakes cool completely, about 1 hour..
- Meanwhile, bring cream to a boil in a saucepan and add vanilla extract. Place dark chocolate in a bowl and pour hot cream on top. Stir until chocolate is melted and a smooth mixture forms. Add cinnamon, and salt; mix. Let chill for 30 minutes..
- Spread some ganache on top of the cooled cakes and layer them. Spread remaining ganache over the whole cake and smooth out with a spatula. Chill for 30 minutes..
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