Chocolate Cake with Chocolate-Orange Frosting
Chocolate Cake with Chocolate-Orange Frosting might be a good recipe to expand your dessert recipe box. This recipe makes 12 servings with 396 calories, 4g of protein, and 20g of fat each. This recipe covers 7% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. A mixture of salt, vegetable oil, baking soda, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so scrumptious. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 45 minutes.
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350°F. Spray 9-inch diametercake pan with 2-inch-high sideswith nonstick spray. Sift all purpose flour,sugar, whole wheat flour, cocoa powder,baking soda, and salt into large bowl.
Add3/4 cup water, oil, juice concentrate, vanilla,and vinegar and whisk to blend.
Transferbatter to prepared pan.
Bake cake until tester inserted intocenter comes out clean, about 35 minutes.Cool cake in pan on rack. Carefully cutaround pan sides and turn out cake ontoserving platter.
Place chopped bittersweetchocolate in medium metal bowl. Set bowlover saucepan of barely simmering water.Stir constantly until chocolate is meltedand smooth. Carefully transfer bowl towork surface. Cool melted chocolate toroom temperature, stirring occasionally,15 to 20 minutes.
Using electric mixer, beat "butter" inlarge bowl until smooth.
Add powderedsugar, 1 tablespoon juice concentrate,vanilla, and salt; beat until smooth.
Add2 tablespoons juice concentrate; beatuntil blended. Beat in agave nectar, thenchocolate.
Let stand 10 minutes. Frost topand sides of cake. DO AHEAD: Cake can bemade up to 8 hours ahead. Cover with cakedome and store at room temperature.
* Also called whole grain pastry flour;available at some supermarkets and at mostnatural foods stores.
** A natural sweetener made from the sapof agave succulent plants; sold at somesupermarkets and at natural foods stores.
The frosting firms upquickly, so spread it over the cake shortlyafter you make it.