Coffee Chocolate Cake

How to Cook Recipes Coffee Chocolate Cake using 20 ingredients and 12 steps

Coffee Chocolate Cake - This cake has a rich chocolate flavor when using a dark roast coffee. Simple coffee chocolate cake recipe that's covered in chocolate buttercream and topped off with espresso ganache and chocolate chips. If you are fond of chocolate and coffee and love a caffeine-kick, stop what you are doing and. This is the EASIEST dark chocolate cake yet. It is super-chocolaty and very moist.

It's an old-fashioned kind of cake, with no frills but a rich chocolate flavor.

It's an absolute delight to have as an accompaniment to tea or coffee.

You can cook Coffee Chocolate Cake using 20 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients make Coffee Chocolate Cake

1. Prepare Cake - dry ingredients.
2. It's 400 g castor sugar.
3. Prepare 275 g flour/cake flour.
4. It's 50 g cocoa powder.
5. Prepare 1 1/2 tsp baking powder.
6. It's 1 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda.
7. Prepare 1 tsp salt.
8. It's Cake - wet ingredients.
9. It's 100 g unsalted butter - melted.
10. It's 2 eggs.
11. Prepare 250 ml ButterMilk.
12. Prepare 250 ml hot coffee.
13. You need (1 tbsp coffee + hot water).
14. You need For the frosting.
15. It's 200 g butter - Room Temperature.
16. It's 500 g icing sugar- sifted.
17. You need 50 g cocoa powder- sifted.
18. It's 150 g dark chocolate- melted.
19. It's 2-3 tbsp espresso.
20. Prepare Chocolate balls.

Coffee Chocolate Cake instructions

1. Preheat oven to 170°C. Grease & line 2 × 20cm cake pans..
2. In a large mixing bowl, whisk together all the dry ingredients..
3. In a separate bowl, whisk together all the wet ingredients..
4. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry & mix until well combined. Divide batter into equal portions & pour into the 2 cake pans..
5. Place in the oven & allow to bake for 30mins or until skewer inserted comes out clean. Dont worry if cake sinks a little in the center..
6. Remove the cakes from tge oven & allow to cool completely..
7. Frosting - beat the butter until light & fluffy (4-5mins). Add sifted cocoa powder & icing sugar then beat for another 2mins until well combined..
8. With the mixer running, slowly pour in the chocolate & mix well. Add the espresso, one tbsp at a time & mix until you have glossy frosting. When cakes are cool, slice each in half length-wise resulting in 4 cake layers. Or you can use only two layers. Next, Stack the cakes with frosting in the center adding crushed chocolate balls (opt) between every layer..
9. Finish the cake with the remaining frosting & top with chocolate balls..
10. Tips- cake can be made in advance. It should be cooled thoroughly before wrapping in grease proof paper & plastic wrap. Keep in the fridge..
11. Frosting - if buttercream is too dry/thick, add a bit of softened butter & splashes of milk..
12. Christmas Eve Dinner 2019.

Coffee Chocolate Cake - I work evenings in the operating room at our local hospital. Since getting away for meals can be difficult, we occasionally plan potlucks. I'm frequently asked to bring my "chocolate cake with the special icing". -Irene Peery Charlottesville, Virginia. Using electric mixer, beat butter in large bowl until smooth. For the cake, place the chocolate, butter and coffee into a bowl set over a pan. The Best Chocolate Cake combines cocoa and coffee to create a chocolate lover's dream. The rich buttercream frosting makes it perfect! Thank you and good luck