This salted caramel chocolate cake recipe has us obsessed! 3 moist chocolate cake layers, gooey salted caramel sauce, and salted caramel chocolate frosting! Want I say extra? This cake has a lot chocolate taste and is the proper dessert for chocolate lovers!
At this time is my twenty ninth birthday! And I’m (clearly) celebrating with cake… salted caramel chocolate cake to be precise. I’ve been testing this recipe without end and at last cracked the code simply in time for my b-day.
This chocolate cake is NOT your common chocolate cake recipe. Extremely moist, dense, and wealthy with chocolate taste… and the cake layers are sandwiched with gooey caramel sauce and salted caramel chocolate buttercream. I could by no means make chocolate cake one other means!!!
Components for Chocolate Cake Batter
- Scorching Water: Or scorching espresso, if you happen to like a delicate espresso taste in your cake batter.
- Sugar: Brown sugar and granulated sugar create candy and moist cake layers!
- All-Objective Flour: I can not advocate utilizing one other number of flour. That is crucial of the dry substances, so ensure that to measure accurately.
- Unsweetened Cocoa Powder: Don’t use scorching chocolate combine, sweetened cocoa, or dutch-process cocoa powder. Sift your cocoa powder earlier than use for greatest outcomes.
- Baking Soda: Helps the cake batter unfold for even cake layers.
- Baking Powder: Helps the cake layers rise within the oven for fluffy cake layers.
- Salt: Enhances the chocolate taste and helps steadiness sweetness.
- Eggs: You’ll use 3 massive eggs and a pair of massive egg yolks. Be certain that your eggs are at room temperature.
- Bitter Cream: For those who can not discover bitter cream, full fats plain Greek yogurt works as a sub.
- Milk: Entire milk works greatest, however low-fat milk will work in a pinch.
- Oil: Vegetable oil, canola oil, or melted coconut oil will all work right here.
- Vanilla: 2 tablespoons of pure vanilla extract improve the chocolate taste.
Components for Chocolate Buttercream Frosting
- Unsalted Butter: Be certain that your butter is at room temperature so there aren’t any massive chunks in your chocolate frosting.
- Confectioners’ Sugar: Sifting your sugar will present a silky clean chocolate buttercream frosting. I don’t recommend decreasing the quantity of sugar, as a result of it creates a thick chocolate frosting.
- Unsweetened Cocoa Powder: Right here you should use common cocoa powder. Or use Dutch-process cocoa powder for an additional darkish chocolate frosting.
- Vanilla Extract: Enhances the chocolate taste within the chocolate frosting.
- Salt: Enhances the chocolate taste within the chocolate frosting and helps steadiness the general sweetness.
- Heavy Cream: Makes the chocolate frosting further creamy! Use extra if wanted, however solely add a tablespoon at a time to keep away from runny frosting.
- Caramel: Attempt my selfmade salted caramel sauce or use your favourite store-bought caramel!
Let’s Bake Chocolate Cake!
- Prep Cake Pans: Make sure you spray the cake pans effectively with nonstick baking spray. And line them with parchment paper cut-outs. You don’t need the muffins sticking to the cake pans!
- Make the Cake Batter: You’ll want a big bowl for chocolate cake, so be sure you have one readily available. This makes loads of moist substances/cake batter!
- Bake the Truffles: They’ll want about half-hour within the oven. They’re prepared when a toothpick inserted in the course of a cake comes out clear, or with moist crumbs hooked up.
- Cool the Truffles: Be certain that to chill utterly earlier than frosting! Cool muffins at room temperature for about 1 hour, or till utterly cool to the contact.
- Make the Frosting: Proper earlier than you propose on adorning the cake, make the chocolate buttercream frosting.
- Assemble the Cake: Trim the cake layers in order that they’re even. Then high with chocolate buttercream frosting, and a layer of salted caramel sauce. Add one other cake layer, and repeat. For those who’d like, you may drizzle extra caramel on high of the entire cake after you absolutely frost it.
Ideas for *PERFECT* Chocolate Cake
- This recipe requires vegetable oil, however you should use an equal quantity of canola oil or melted coconut oil instead. Or, even olive oil will work in a pinch, however will add olive oil taste. I don’t advocate substituting oil with butter.
- For greatest outcomes, ensure that your eggs, egg yolks, bitter cream, and milk have all come to room temperature earlier than you start baking. Chilly substances don’t bond and might trigger points with even baking.
- If you measure your flour, ensure you’re not packing it into the measuring cup. Packed flour will yield a dense and dry cake. For greatest outcomes, weigh your flour with a kitchen scale.
- The cake layers ought to all be baked on the center rack of your oven. If there’s not sufficient room in your oven to bake all of them in an excellent row directly, merely bake them in two batches.
- For the chocolate buttercream frosting, you’ll wish to ensure that your butter is VERY gentle earlier than creaming it. Chilly butter will clump up and received’t mix evenly.
- The chocolate muffins ought to be utterly cool earlier than including the frosting and salted caramel. This will take wherever from half-hour to 1 and 1/2 hours. Be affected person!
- The meeting is a two half course of: you’ll place one cake degree on a big plate, high it with a skinny layer of frosting, then add the caramel, then add one other cake degree and repeat. When you’ve added the ultimate cake degree you’ll wish to go away the highest naked and place the cake within the fridge to set for one hour. As soon as it’s set, you may end frosting.
For those who love chocolate cake as a lot as I do, you need to do that horny salted caramel model! It’s bought every part and love about chocolate cake, however with a enjoyable and sudden salted caramel twist.
It makes a BIG cake, so it’s good for bigger celebrations or birthday events, and many others. Leftovers could be wrapped in saran wrap and saved within the fridge for 3 to 4 days. However I doubt they’ll final you that lengthy. This cake by no means lasts greater than a day in my home! It’s borderline addictive!
