Six-Layer Chocolate Cake

Name: Six-Layer Chocolate Cake
Prep time: 1 h 45 min
Cook time: 1 h 45 min
Total time: 1 h 45 min
Yield: 20
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 118 milliliters butter; 237 milliliters butter, room temperature; 79 milliliters cocoa powder; 454 grams box confectioners sugar, sifted, plus 1 cup; 2 Tbsps corn syrup; 4 eggs; 158 milliliters half-and-half; 237 milliliters milk; 0 teaspoons salt; 710 milliliters self-rising flour, sifted; 237 milliliters sugar; 473 milliliters sugar; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Six-Layer Chocolate Cake might be just the dessert you are searching for. This recipe serves 20. This recipe covers 4% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One serving contains 435 calories, 4g of protein, and 16g of fat. It is a good option if you're following a vegetarian diet. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes. If you have butter, butter, sugar, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

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Oven

Grease and flour 3 (9-inch) round cake pans.

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All Purpose Flour

Using an electric mixer, cream the butter until fluffy.

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Butter

Cream

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Hand Mixer

Add the sugar and continue to cream for approximately 6 to 8 minutes.

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Cream

Sugar

Add the eggs 1 at a time, beating well after each addition.

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Egg

Add the flour and milk, alternately to creamed mixture, beginning and ending with the flour.

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All Purpose Flour

Milk

Add the vanilla and continue to mix until incorporated. To bake 6 layers of cake 3 at a time, divide the batter in 1/2, then divide each 1/2 among the 3 pans. Level the batter in each pan by dropping pan flat onto counter top to release air bubbles.

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Vanilla

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Oven

Frying Pan

Bake each cake for 15 to 20 minutes, or until golden brown. Cool in pans for 5 to 10 minutes. Invert cakes and repeat process with the rest of the cake batter.

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Oven

Prepare frosting while cakes are cooling.

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Frosting

Mix sugar, cocoa, butter, half-and-half, corn syrup, and salt in a saucepan, stir, and bring to a boil. Continue to boil, stirring occasionally for 3 minutes. The syrup will become thick.

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Corn Syrup

Butter

Cocoa Powder

Sugar

Syrup

Salt

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Sauce Pan

Remove syrup from heat, and beat in the confectioners' sugar and vanilla extract with an electric mixer. Allow frosting to rest for a couple of minutes. At this time, if the frosting is too thick for spreading, add a bit of half-and-half, 1 tablespoon at a time, to bring frosting to proper spreading consistency.

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Powdered Sugar