Description
This moist espresso and chocolate flavored cake is brushed with coffee glaze and then finished with a soft mocha buttercream frosting, making every bite melt in your mouth. From nestle.
Ingredients
- Bittersweet Chocolate
- All-purpose Flour
- Baking Soda
- Salt
- Light Brown Sugar
- Butter
- Eggs
- Instant Espresso Powder
- Vanilla Extract
- Buttermilk
- Granulated Sugar
- Water
- Milk
- Powdered Sugar
Instructions
- For chocolate espresso cake:
- Preheat oven to 350 f
- Grease and line two 9-inch-round baking pans with wax paper
- Microwave small chocolate pieces in small, uncovered, microwave-safe bowl on high power for 45 seconds, stir
- If pieces retain some of their original shape, microwave at additional 10- to 15-second intervals, stirring just until melted
- Cool to room temperature
- Combine flour, baking soda and salt in small bowl
- Beat brown sugar, butter, eggs, instant coffee and vanilla extract in large mixer bowl for 3 minutes
- Gradually add melted chocolate and continue beating for an additional minute
- Beat flour mixture into creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk
- Pour into prepared pans
- Bake for 33 to 38 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean
- Cool in pans on wire racks for 10 minutes
- Run knife around edges of cakes
- Invert onto wire racks
- Remove wax paper
- Cool completely
- Brush cakes with coffee glaze over cake layers
- Spread mocha buttercream frosting between layers and over top and sides of cake
- For coffee glaze:
- Microwave granulated sugar, water and instant coffee in small, uncovered, microwave-safe bowl on high power for 30 seconds
- Stir until sugar and coffee are dissolved
- For mocha buttercream frosting:
- Microwave small chocolate pieces in small, uncovered, microwave-safe bowl on high power for 45 seconds
- Stir
- If pieces retain some of their original shape, microwave at additional 10- to 15-second intervals, stirring just until melted
- Cool to room temperature
- Dissolve instant coffee in milk in glass measure
- Beat butter, vanilla extract and salt in large mixer bowl for 3 minutes
- Beat in melted chocolate until blended, scraping occasionally
- Gradually beat in powdered sugar until light and fluffy
- Beat in coffee mixture, 1 tablespoon at a time, until desired spreading consistency