Cake from Portal
photo by Mel P.
- Ready In:
- 2hrs 40mins
- Ingredients:
- 16
- Serves:
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16
ingredients
- 1 (18 1/4 ounce) package chocolate cake mix
- 1 (12 ounce) can coconut pecan frosting
- 3⁄4 cup vegetable oil
- 7 egg whites
- 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 3⁄4 cup butter or 3/4 cup margarine, melted
- 2⁄3 cup granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2⁄3 cup cocoa powder
- 1⁄4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1⁄3 cup water
- 2 (12 ounce) cans vanilla frosting
- 8 maraschino cherries
directions
- This recipe is simple, it just takes a lot of ingredients and mixing/sitting around time to complete. Pop in a movie while making the cake to help pass the time.
- This recipe can easily be made for those who do not consume dairy by making sure the frosting and cake mix you use do not contain dairy. Which is easily done, I being dairy intolerant myself.
- And lastly, this cake is for fun. It is for the nerd in all of us that just wants to sit down with a bunch of friends, and eat. This cake is perfect for that. Heck, you could all bring food and call it a Lies and Deceit Pot Luck, and LAN your way through the meal!
- Warning to the wise: this cake is VERY rich. Don't cut it into eight slices, cut it into sixteen. Regular sized slices will just make people sick to their stomachs because of how rich this cake is. So do eat carefully.
- The night before, mix 2/3c cocoa powder with 1.5 cans of vanilla frosting. Save the remaining half can of vanilla frosting for later.
- Next day: remove mixed frosting and vanilla frosting from the fridge and set to the side. Also place the cherries and chocolate chips to the side. They will not be used until the cake is completely done.
- Pre-heat over to 375 degrees F.
- Lightly butter two 9 inch cake pans.
- In one bowl combine all remaining dry ingredients.
- In larger bowl, combine all liquid ingredients and egg whites. Mix thoroughly.
- Slowly sift dry ingredients into the large bowl of liquid ingredients. Mix thoroughly.
- Pour half of the batter into one prepared cake pan, and the rest into the second cake pan.
- Cook for 30+ minutes, until a knife can be removed cleanly from the cake.
- When done cooking, allow the cake to cool for at least one hour.
- Remove top quarter inch from one cake round. Basically, let it have a completely flat top so that the second layer can rest smoothly on top. I suggest using a bread knife.
- Use the coconut frosting as the inner layer.
- Place second layer on top of first layer.
- Frost with the cocoa powder mixed frosting. Warning: this stuff is stiff, so it takes a little work.
- Coat entire cake with chocolate chips, press them lightly into the frosting to get them to stay. The recipe suggests one cup, I would suggest just taking from the bag. Measurements are just suggestions for chocolate chips.
- Using the remaining vanilla frosting and a tablespoon, dallop eight circles around the top of the cake.
- Place the eight cherries on top of the eight vanilla frosting circles.
- Treat your friends to a meal of Lies and Deceit. ^.^.
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Reviews
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Enjoy a meal of lies and deceit we did! first off, the anticipation of the cake was exciting and definitely made the cake making process much more fun. then there was mixing the ingredients with my close friend, we were discussing how amazing each ingredient tasted (the frosting, the cake itself out of the oven...) and after each step the cake seemed closer and closer to perfection! when finished, we took pictures and played music (still alive, of course) and MAN, that cake really is SUPER DELICIOUS AND MOIST! THE CAKE IS AMAZING! 5 STARS! from the icing to the cake to the chocolate shreds i put on (BTW, a good tip to make it really nice: take a cooking bar of semi sweet chocolate and use a potato shredder and shred the chocolate, it worked really well) and the whole shabang. really, this cake is great! no lies here!
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It was truly delicious and moist. Because of this, I would make one suggestion. Instead of cutting the top off of the top layer, I just turned mine upside down. While this left a large space on the side for frosting, it was less messy than trying to cut that moist cake and keep it all together would have been. Props on the great recipe! :D I also did what captboog did for the chocolate outside (though I didn't read his review beforehand lol. Great minds think alike)
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