Chocolate Birthday Layer Cake

Name: Chocolate Birthday Layer Cake
Prep time: 5 h
Cook time: 5 h
Total time: 5 h
Yield: 12
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 teaspoons baking soda; 283 grams bittersweet chocolate, melted and cooled; 177 milliliters cocoa powder; 237 milliliters confectioners sugar; 158 milliliters light corn syrup; 2 larges eggs; 355 milliliters all-purpose flour; 296 milliliters granulated sugar; 1 teaspoon instant espresso powder; 1 pinch Pinch salt; 296 milliliters sour cream; 20 Tbsps unsalted butter, softened; 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract; 158 milliliters vegetable oil

You can never have too many dessert recipes, so give Chocolate Birthday Layer Cake a try. This recipe serves 12. One portion of this dish contains around 6g of protein, 46g of fat, and a total of 709 calories. It will be a hit at your Birthday event. Head to the store and pick up eggs, bittersweet chocolate, granulated sugar, and a few other things to make it today. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 5 hours.

Instructions

Make Cake: Adjust oven rack to middle position and preheat oven to 350°F. Line bottoms of 2 9-inch cake pans with parchment paper and lightly coat the inside with non-stick pan spray. Sift flour, cocoa, baking soda, and salt into large bowl; set aside. In medium bowl, whisk sugar, sour cream, oil, eggs, vanilla, and espresso powder until smooth.

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Vanilla

Cocoa Powder

All Purpose Flour

Sugar

Egg

Salt

Cooking Oil

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Baking Paper

Whisk

Bowl

Oven

Frying Pan

Whisk wet ingredients into dry ingredients until smooth. Evenly divide into pans and bake until cake is just firm and toothpick inserted into center comes out with moist crumbs, about 25 minutes.

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Whisk

Let cake cool in pans for 15 minutes, then remove cakes from pans to completely cool on wire rack, about 1 hour.

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Meanwhile, make the frosting: In food processor, process butter, confectioners sugar, cocoa, and salt until completely combined and smooth.

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Frosting

Butter

Cocoa Powder

Salt

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Add corn syrup and vanilla and combine until smooth, scraping down sides of bowl as necessary.

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Corn Syrup

Vanilla

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Add chocolate and process until just smooth.

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Chocolate

Place one cake (top side up) on serving plate.

Spread about 1 cup frosting onto cake.

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Frosting

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Place second cake (bottom side up) on top. Frost top and sides with remaining frosting. Use back of spoon soup spoon to make swirls on cake. Decorate if desired and serve.

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