Cakespy: Chocolate Avocado Cake With Avocado Buttercream

Name: Cakespy: Chocolate Avocado Cake With Avocado Buttercream
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 118 milliliters soft avocado (about 1 medium avocado), mashed until smooth and creamy; 2 teaspoons baking powder; 2 teaspoons baking soda; 59 milliliters butter (note: if you want your cake to be vegan, use 1/4 cup vegetable oil); 710 milliliters all-purpose flour; 473 milliliters granulated sugar; 2 teaspoons lemon juice; 1 ball Optional: Malt or Malteasers, for garnish; 227 grams avocado meat, about 2 small to medium, very ripe avocados; 454 grams powdered sugar, sifted; 1 teaspoons salt; 6 Tbsps unsweetened cocoa powder; 1 teaspoons vanilla extract; 473 milliliters water; 2 Tbsps white vinegar

This recipe makes 6 servings with 926 calories, 16g of protein, and 12g of fat each. This recipe covers 17% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 45 minutes. If you have vanillan extract, optional: malt balls, water, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease and flour your cake pan or pans. Set aside.

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All Purpose Flour

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Cake Form

Oven

Sift together all of the dry ingredients except the sugar. Set that aside too.

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Sugar

Mix all the wet ingredients together in a bowl, including the super mashed avocado.

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Avocado

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Bowl

Add sugar into the wet mix and stir.

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Sugar

Mix the wet with the dry all at once, and beat with a whisk (by hand) until smooth.

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Whisk

Pour batter into your prepared pan(s).

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Frying Pan

Bake for 30 to 40 minutes, until a toothpick inserted comes out clean (I baked mine for 40 minutes and probably could have baked it for about 5 more, but since there were no eggs I wasn't too worried about the fudgy texture in the middle).

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Egg

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Toothpicks

Oven

Let cake or cakes cool in pan for 15 minutes, then turn out onto cooling racks to cool completely before frosting.

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Frosting

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Frying Pan

While the cake cools, make the buttercream. Peel and pit the soft avocados. It's important to use the ripest avocados you can get your hands on. If the avocados have brown spots in the meat, avoid those spots when you scoop the meat into the bowl.

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Avocado

Meat