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Baking has been the domain of my wife and my daughter. Â Based on the feedback of this cake, watch out ladies (one of the feedbacks was from my wife). Â This is a 3 layer chocolate cake with chocolate frosting for filling infused with cherry concentrate and a sweetened cream frosting.
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Recipe
Perfect Chocolate Cake:
- Lightly grease 3 9″ round pans with solid vegetable shortening, then dust with flour and shake out the excess
- In an electric mixer, combine 1 package of devil’s food cake mix with pudding, with 1 cup sour cream, 3/4 cup water, 1/2 cup vegetable oil, 4 large eggs and 1 tsp of vanilla extract. Â Mix on low speed for 1 minute. Â Scrape sides with spatula and mix for another 2 minutes on low and pour equally into the pans
- Bake 350 degrees for approximately 20 minutes
Perfect Chocolate Frosting:
- Place a large mixing bowl aside filled with ice
- In a medium sauce pan over medium heat, add 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips, 1/2 cup of 1/2 & 1/2 and 2 sticks of butter and stir constantly until mixture begins to thicken
- Whisk in the confectioners sugarÂ
- Next, place mixture in the bowl with ice and mix with an electric mixer for 4 – 5 minutes until the frosting (filling) becomes thick and satiny
- Spread over cakes once they have cooled
Sweetened Cream Frosting:
- Chill a mixing bowl
- Pour 2 cups of heavy cream and beat on high speed for 3 minutes
- Stop the machine, add 1/2 cup of confectioners sugar and 1 tsp vanilla extract and beat for 2 minutes
- Frost cake and enjoy.
Hi Peter, your cake looks really tempting. Thanks for sharing. Hope you’re having a great week ahead.
Blessings
Kristy
Yummm! Looks delicious!
Peter,
This cake looks amazing! Can’t wait to try it out. Thanks for linking up, hope to see you again this Thursday. Have a great week.
Michelle
You’ve done a beautiful job of this cake – it looks gorgeous and sounds really delicious.
It looks awesome!!!
Wow! Definitely very tempting & delicious looking cake!
Love the addition of concentrated cherry juice – chocolate and cherries are such a perfect combination, especially in cakes!
Looks amazing!!! I adore chocolate cake
This cake looks amazing! Okay so as much as I love to bake I always seem to fail when it comes to a layer cake!!! (It looks like something out of cake wrecks!) I may have to give it a go one more time! 🙂
It really looks awesome! I love chocolate cakes and this recipe looks very good.
Hi Peter! Your cake looks perfect – is it really your first one? 🙂 The ganache and cream frosting sound like a perfect pairing. All in all, you made a delicious dessert! One question: at what point did you add the cherry concentrate? Happy to be your newest follower!
sorry for the extremely belated follow up but the cherry was added after the ingredients were mixed fully
Thank you! I’ve always just used cream when making ganache type things, but I think I might try it with milk, or a mix of both now!
That is essentially correct. This recipe called for whole milk but this was one spot where one can reduce the fat content a little without losing taste or quality.
This is making me crave chocolate cake! Am I right in thinking that half and half is half milk and half cream (we don’t get it in the UK)? Thank you for sharing!