Description
Celebrate New Year’s Eve with this stunning Midnight Blackout Cake. It’s a rich, dark chocolate cake perfect for a show-stopping dessert. Let your kitchen feel like a stage and create a moment everyone remembers.
Ingredients
- All-purpose flour: 2 cups
- Granulated sugar: 2 cups
- Unsweetened cocoa powder: 3/4 cup
- Baking soda: 2 teaspoons
- Baking powder: 1 teaspoon
- Salt: 1 teaspoon
- Eggs: 2 large
- Buttermilk: 1 cup
- Vegetable oil: 1/2 cup
- Vanilla extract: 2 teaspoons
- Hot strong coffee: 1 cup
- For the Frosting: Butter, powdered sugar, cocoa powder, milk, vanilla extract (quantities not specified, use your favorite dark chocolate frosting recipe)
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350°F (175°C). Grease and flour two 9-inch round cake pans.
- In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.
- Add the eggs, buttermilk, oil, and vanilla extract to the dry ingredients. Beat with an electric mixer on medium speed for two minutes.
- Carefully stir in the hot coffee by hand. The batter will be thin; this is correct.
- Pour the batter evenly into the prepared pans.
- Bake for 30 to 35 minutes, or until a wooden pick inserted into the center comes out clean.
- Let the cakes cool in the pans for 10 minutes before inverting them onto a wire rack to cool completely.
- Prepare your dark chocolate frosting.
- Once cooled, frost and stack the layers to create your Midnight Blackout Cake.
Notes
- Use very strong, hot coffee to deepen the chocolate flavor. This liquid activates the cocoa powder beautifully.
- Don’t worry if the batter seems thin; that’s what makes this cake so moist.
- Feel free to improvise your frosting! Your muse might guide you toward a slightly salted caramel swirl.
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 35 minutes
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 slice
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