Chocolate Irish Dream Cake Recipes

IRISH CHOCOLATE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°F
• Grease and line 8-inch cake tins.
• Sift flour and salt into a mixing bowl. Melt chocolate in a bowl placed over a saucepan of hot water.
• In a separate bowl, cream butter and sugar together until fluffy, then beat in the chocolate and mashed potato.
• Gradually beat in the egg, adding a little flour with each addition.
• Fold in the rest of the flour and stir in the milk.
• Divide mixture between cake tins and bake for 25 to 30 minutes or until top is firm but springy to the touch.
• Remove from oven and after a few minutes, turn out on a cooling rack.
• While the cake is cooling, make the icing. Melt the chocolate as before, stir in the other ingredients and mix well.
• Use the icing to sandwich the cake layers together and coat the top and sides of the cake.
• HINT: What makes this rich chocolate cake "Irish" is not only to the creamy liqueur used in the filling, but also a particularly "Irish" ingredient in the cake mixture itself, which makes it extremely moist. Have you guessed it yet? Yes, it's the potato! Mystery solved! Bet you were wondering what potatoes were doing in a cake recipe! Even Irish dessert recipes make use of this abundant Irish crop!

CHOCOLATE DREAM CAKE

Steps:

• Cake:.
• Combine all ingredients except frosting in a large mixing bowl; beat 4 minutes at medium speed with an ele4ctric mixer. POur batter into 2 greased and floured 9 inch round cake pans. Bake at 325F for 35 minutes or until a wooden pick comes out clean. Cool in pans 10 minutes; remove from pans, let cool on wire racks.
• Spread Sour Cream Chocolate frosting between layers and on top and sides of cake.
• Sour Cream Chocolate Frosting: Place chocolate in top of a double boiler; bring water to a boil. reduce heat to low; cook until chocolate melts. Cool.
• Combine chocolate and sour cream. Add sugar alternately with milk,bating at med. speed until smooth.

CHOCOLATE DREAM CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350.
• Line a 15"x10" pan with wax paper.
• Wisk together cocoa, sugar and boiling water.
• Cool to lukewarm.
• Prepare cake mix to pkg. directions, using the water and adding the cocoa mixture.
• Spread batter evenly in the pan.
• Bake 20 minutes or till top looks dry.
• Invert onto large rack.
• Remove pan and wax paper and let cool.
• In a medium bowl, dissolve coffee in milk.
• Add whip topping& pudding mixes.
• Beat on low speed till moistened, then high speed till soft peaks form.
• Chill 5 minutes.
• Cut cake crosswise into thirds, cover each with topping, then stack.
• (I'll probably skip the stacking and just frost& serve) Chill for 2 hours.

IRISH CHOCOLATE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°F (gas mark 5), and grease and line two 8" cake pans.
• Sift flour and salt into a mixing bowl.
• Melt chocolate in a bowl placed over a saucepan of hot water.
• In a separate bowl, cream butter and sugar together until fluffy, then beat in the chocolate and mashed potato.
• Gradually beat in the eggs, adding a little flour with each addition.
• Fold in the rest of the flour and stir in the milk.
• Divide mixture evenly between the cake pans and bake for 25-30 minutes or until top is firm but springy to the touch.
• Remove from oven and after a few minutes, turn out on a cooling rack.
• While the cake is cooling, melt the chocolate for the filling as before.
• Stir in the other ingredients and mix well.
• Use the filling to sandwich the sponge layers together and coat the top and sides of the cake.

CHOCOLATE DREAM CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350.
• in a bowl, sift together flour, sugar, baking soda, salt and cocoa.
• add butter and 2/3 of the buttermilk; mix well.
• add eggs and remaining buttermilk; mix well.
• pour into greased 9 x 13 inch pan.
• bake 30 minutes or until toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean.
• cool 10 minutes then remove to a wire rack to finish cooling.