Dark Chocolate Dream Cake Recipes

DARK CHOCOLATE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour 2 round 9-inch cake pans.
• For the cake, put flour, sugar, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a bowl and mix well.
• In a stand mixer, mix the buttermilk, oil, eggs, vanilla together. Slowly add in the mix of dry ingredients while the mixer is on low. Add the coffee and make sure everything is combined. The batter will be very thin.
• Pour the batter into the prepared pans and bake for about 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
• Allow the cakes to cool on a wire rack for 10 minutes. Turn the cakes out onto a cooling rack.
• Make the Dark Chocolate Buttercream (double the recipe).
• Now it's time to put your cake together!
• Frost the top of the first cake. Then layer the other half of the cake on top. Frost the outside of the cake.
• Use a decorating comb to smooth the outside edge and to make lines, if desired.
• Pipe stars using Wilton tip 1M on the top outer edge of the cake.
• Sprinkle mini chocolate chips over the top of the cake.

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.

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.

SOUR CREAM DARK CHOCOLATE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour three 9-inch round baking pans.
• Dissolve cocoa powder in boiling water in a bowl; set aside to cool completely.
• Beat white sugar and canola oil together in a bowl with an electric mixer until smooth; add eggs, one at time, beating well after each addition. Stir vanilla extract into creamed mixture.
• Sift flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt together in a separate bowl. Mix flour mixture and sour cream alternately into the creamed mixture. Beat cocoa mixture into batter until incorporated. Pour batter into the prepared baking pans.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center of each cake comes out clean, 30 to 35 minutes. Cool in the pans for 10 minutes before removing to cool completely on a wire rack. Wrap cakes in plastic wrap and store in refrigerator.
• Beat butter in a bowl with an electric mixer until creamy and smooth; scrape down sides of bowl with a rubber spatula. Mix confectioners' sugar, 1/2 cup at a time, into the creamed butter until sugar is incorporated. Add salt and beat on medium-high until frosting is light and fluffy, about 5 minutes.
• Place one cake on a serving plate; spread 1/4 the frosting on the top of cake. Place second cake on the frosting layer; spread 1/4 the frosting on second cake. Place the third cake atop the second cake. Spread the remaining frosting on the top cake and around sides of entire layer cake.