Frosted Chocolate Butter Cake
- Ready In:
- 50mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Serves:
-
12
ingredients
-
Cake
- 4 eggs
- 118.29 ml sugar
- 236.59 ml all-purpose flour
- 14.79 ml unsweetened cocoa powder
- 29.58 ml butter, melted
- 77.96 g dark chocolate, melted
- 295.73 ml finely chopped walnuts
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Frosting
- 77.96 g dark chocolate
- 118.29 ml butter
- 295.73 ml powdered sugar
- 29.58 ml milk
- walnut halves, to decorate
directions
- Grease a 7-inch deep round cake pan and line the base.
- Place the eggs and the sugar in a mixing bowl and whisk with an electric mixer for 10 minutes, or until the mixture in light and foamy and the whisk leaves a trail that lasts a few seconds when lifted Preheat oven to 325F Sift the flour and cocoa powder and fold into the egg mixture with a spatula or metal spoon.
- Fold in the melted butter and chocolate, then the walnuts.
- Pour into the prepared cake pan and bake for 30-35 minutes, or until springy to the touch Let cool in pan for 5 minutes then flip out onto a wire rack and let cool completelyy.
- Cut the cold cake into 2 layers To make the frosting, melt the dark chocolate and let cool slightly.
- Beat together the butter, powdered sugar, and the milk in a bowl until the mixture is pale and fluffy.
- Whisk in the chocolate Sandwich the cake layers together with some of the frosting and then spread the remaining frosting on the top and the edges of the cake.
- Decorate with the walnut halves.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
MizEmerilLagasse
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