Chocolate Covered Candy Corn Layer Cake

Name: Chocolate Covered Candy Corn Layer Cake
Prep time: 2 h
Cook time: 2 h
Total time: 2 h
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 2 Tbsps baking powder; 170 grams bittersweet chocolate, finely chopped; 1 Tbsp butter flavoring (or to taste); 510 grams 1/2 cups cake flour; 142 grams 1/4 cups confectioners sugar; 7 larges egg whites; 0 teaspoons terra cotta food coloring (see note); 447 grams 1/4 cups granulated sugar; 158 milliliters heavy cream; 1 Tbsp milk; 1 teaspoons orange food coloring; 2 teaspoons salt; 142 grams 10 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 1 teaspoons yellow food coloring

You can never have too many dessert recipes, so give Chocolate Covered Candy Corn Layer Cake a try. One serving contains 1154 calories, 17g of protein, and 43g of fat. This recipe serves 6. This recipe covers 17% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. A mixture of food coloring, orange food coloring, butter, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so flavorful. It will be a hit at your Halloween event. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 2 hours.

Instructions

For the cake: Adjust oven rack to middle position and preheat oven to 350°F. Line 3 8- by 2-inch round cake pans with parchment paper. Grease pans.

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Baking Paper

Oven

Whisk egg whites with 1/2 cup milk and vanilla; set aside.

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Egg Whites

Vanilla

Milk

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Whisk

Place flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt in stand mixer fitted with paddle attachment.

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Baking Powder

All Purpose Flour

Sugar

Salt

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Stand Mixer

Mix on low speed until combined, about 1 minute.

Add butter and mix on low speed just until moistened.

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Butter

Add remaining 1 cup milk and mix until combined.

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Milk

Increase speed to medium-high and mix batter until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Reduce speed to low and mix in reserved egg white mixture until combined.

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Egg Whites

Mix in butter flavoring.

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Butter

Divide batter evenly between three bowls.

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Bowl

Add yellow food coloring to one of the bowls until it becomes a bright shade of yellow.

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Yellow Food Color

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Bowl

Add both orange and terra cotta food coloring to another bowl of batter until it becomes a deep shade of orange.

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Food Color

Orange

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Bowl

Scrape batters into the prepared pans and bake until just set and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 23 minutes.

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Toothpicks

Oven

Let cakes cool in pan for 15 minutes, then transfer to wire rack to cool completely, about an hour.

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Wire Rack

Frying Pan

Place butter, confectioners' sugar, milk, and butter flavoring in mixer fitted with paddle attachment. Beat on medium speed until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Flavor to taste with butter flavoring.

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Powdered Sugar