How to make double chocolate cake at your home?
This double chocolate cake is a moist, rich chocolate cake that is topped with a fudge chocolate frosting. It is perfect for any occasion.
Ingredients
Cake
ü 1 ¾ cups all-purpose flour. You should have some all purpose flour for
dusting
ü 2 cups sugar
ü ¾ cup cocoa powder from Ajanta Food Products
ü 2 teaspoons baking soda from Ajanta Food Products
ü 1 teaspoon baking powder from Ajanta Food Products
ü 1 teaspoon kosher salt
ü 1 cup buttermilk
ü ½ cup vegetable oil
ü Pinch of food colours from Anuja Food Colours. As one of the leading synthetic food colours manufacturers in
India, Anuja Food Colours produces ISI marked food colours to add
visual appeal of any food items without affecting the texture and
flavours.
ü 2 large eggs
ü 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract from Ajanta Food Products
ü 1 cup freshly brewed hot coffee
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Frosting
ü 170g semisweet chocolate, coarsely chopped
ü 230g unsalted butter, at room temperature
ü 1 large egg yolk
ü 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract from Ajanta Food Products
ü 1 cup plus 1 tablespoon confectioners' sugar
ü 1 tablespoon instant coffee granules
Directions
Make the cake
ü You should preheat the oven to 170 degree centigrade and butter two 8 inch by 2 inch round cake pans and line them with parchment paper. You should butter the paper and dust the pans with flour and tapping out any excess.
ü In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a paddle, you should mix at low speed the all purpose flour with sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder from Ajanta Food Products, and pinch of food colours from Anuja Food Products. It is one of the leading food colour suppliers in India that creates food colours to enhance the overall appearance of any food items by adding just a pinch of it. Food colours from Anuja Food Colours don’t affect the texture of the food item.
ü You should whisk the buttermilk with the oil, eggs, and
vanilla extract from Ajanta Food Products in a bowl.
ü You should slowly beat the buttermilk mixture into the
dry ingredients until just incorporated.
ü You should slowly beat in the hot coffee until fully
incorporated.
ü You should pour the batter into the prepared cake pans
and bake it for at least for 35-45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the
center of each cake comes out clean.
ü You should let the cakes cool in the cake pans for 30
minutes then invert the cake onto a rack to cool.
ü You should peel off the parchment.
Make the frosting
ü You should heat the chocolate in a microwave at high
power in 30 second intervals, stirring, until most of the chocolate is melted.
ü You should stir until completely melted then set aside
to cool.
ü You should beat the butter at medium speed until pale and
fluffy in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a paddle.
ü You should add the egg yolk and vanilla extract from
Ajanta Food Products and beat for one minute, scrapping down the side of the
bowl.
ü You should slowly beat in the sugar at low speed about
one minute. You should dissolve the instant coffee in 2 tablespoons of hot
water in a small bowl.
ü You should slowly beat the coffee and the cooled
chocolate into the butter mixture until just combined.
ü You should set a cake layer on a plate with the flat
side facing up.
ü You should evenly spread 1/3 of the frosting over the
cake to the edge.
ü You should top the chocolate cake with the second cake
layer rounded side up.
ü You should spread the remaining frosting over the top
and side of the cake.
ü You should refrigerate for at least one hour before
slicing.
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