Big Chocolate Birthday Cake

Name: Big Chocolate Birthday Cake
Prep time: 1 h 45 min
Cook time: 1 h 45 min
Total time: 1 h 45 min
Yield: 14
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 2 teaspoons baking soda; 4 sticks butter, plus more for greasing; 237 milliliters buttermilk; 8 Tbsps heaping tablespoons cocoa, plus more for dusting; 946 milliliters all-purpose flour; 710 milliliters heavy cream; 1 teaspoons salt; 680 grams semisweet chocolate, broken into pieces; 946 milliliters sugar; 2 teaspoons vanilla extract; 473 milliliters boiling water; 4 whole eggs, beaten

Big Chocolate Birthday Cake might be just the dessert you are searching for. This recipe covers 18% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 14. One portion of this dish contains roughly 11g of protein, 66g of fat, and If you have baking soda, salt, buttermilk, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. It will be a hit at your Birthday event. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 1 hour and 45 minutes.

Instructions

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For the cake: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Heavily grease and dust with cocoa four 9-inch round cake pans.

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Cocoa Powder

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Oven

In a mixing bowl, combine the flour, sugar and salt.

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All Purpose Flour

Sugar

Salt

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Mixing Bowl

In a saucepan, melt the butter.

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Butter

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Sauce Pan

Add the cocoa. Stir together.

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Cocoa Powder

Add the boiling water, allow the mixture to boil for 30 seconds and then turn off the heat.

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Water

Pour over the flour mixture and stir lightly to cool.

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All Purpose Flour

Combine the buttermilk, baking soda, vanilla and beaten eggs. Stir the buttermilk mixture into the butter/chocolate mixture.

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Baking Soda

Buttermilk

Chocolate

Vanilla

Butter

Egg

Divide the batter among the prepared cake pans and bake for 20 minutes.

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Oven

Cool completely before icing. Refrigerate the layers after cooling for best results.

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Icing

Heat the cream until very hot, and then pour over the chocolate pieces. Stir to completely melt, and then pour into the bowl of an electric mixer. Refrigerate to cool.

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Chocolate

Cream