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Collection: CAKES & PIES
Recipe By: Grandma Recipes
Chocolate Kahlua Cake with Buttercream Frosting
Ingredients
- Cake Ingredients:
- • 3 C flour
- • 3 C Sugar
- • 1 1/2 C special dark chocolate cocoa powder
- • 1 tbsp baking powder
- • 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
- • 1 1/2 tsp kosher salt
- • 4 large eggs
- • 1/2 C sour cream
- • 1 C buttermilk
- • 1 C warm water
- • 1/2 cup Kahlua
- • 1/2 tsp espresso powder
- • 1/2 C canola oil
- • 1 tbsp pure vanilla extract
- Strawberry Buttercream Frosting ingredients:
- • 2 C unsalted sweet cream butter, softened
- • 6 C powdered sugar
- • 4 tsp vanilla extract
- • 1/2 C finely diced strawberries
- • 5-7 TBSP heavy whipping cream
- • Strawberries for topping
- • 1 large piping bag fitted with star tip
- • Large ice cream scooper
- Chocolate Ganache Ingredients:
- • 1 C semi-sweet chocolate chips
- • 1/2 C heavy whipping cream
- • 1 large squeeze bottle
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Directions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and spray three 9 in. cake pans with pam baking spray.
- In a small bowl, whisk together the espresso, kahlua , and the warm water until combined.
- Using your standing mixer, whisk together the flour, sugar, cocoa. Powder, baking soda, baking powder and salt until combined.
- Gradually add in the eggs, sour cream, buttermilk, espresso, oil and vanilla extract until combined and divide the batter between the 3 pans.
- Place in the oven to bake for 25-35 minutes or until a tooth pick comes out clean.
- Allow cakes to cool for 20 minutes.
Frosting Directions:
- Using a standing mixer, cream together the butter, vanilla, powdered sugar, diced strawberries and heavy whipping cream until creamy stiff with peaks.
- Scoop 1 C of frosting into the piping bag.
- Directions to build the cake. Place 1 layer of cake onto the cake board.
- Using the ice cream scooper, scoop out 4-6 scoops of frosting and
- smooth evenly on one layer of cake.
- Place another layer of cake on top and spread more frosting.
- Place the last layer on top and frost the remaining cake with the remaining frosting.
Chocolate ganache directions:
- Using a small pot, heat up the heavy whipping cream until steaming.
- While heavy whipping cream is heating up, place chocolate chips into a heat-proof bowl.
- Once the heavy whipping cream is heated, pour over the chocolate chips. Allow to sit for 1 minute before whisking until smooth.
- Pour ganache into the squeeze bottle. Pipe dollops of ganache over the edge of the cake.
- Pipe dollops of frosting onto the top of the cake. Place strawberries into the dollops of frosting.
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