Decadent Dirt Cake: Signature Groom's Cake Or Special Occasion Cake
Serves: 4
Olin Prosacco
1 January 1970
Based on User reviews:
55
Spice
41
Sweetness
41
Sourness
42
mins
Prep time (avg)
4.6
Difficulty
Ingredients:
1 cup
Butter (2 sticks)2 cups
Granulated Sugar1.5 cups
Flour (self-rising)1 cup
All-Purpose Flour1 cup
Cocoa2 cups
Water (very hot)3 large
Egg (beaten)2 tbsps
Heavy CreamDirections:
1
Grease and lightly flour a large Bundt pan or alternatively use a vegetable release spray
2
Place the rack at the center of the oven and preheat to 300 degrees F
3
Melt, do not boil, butter, sugar, chocolate, and coffee in a medium-sized saucepan with the hot water, until the sugar is dissolved
4
Cool completely and pour into a large mixing bowl
5
Set the mixer on slow to medium speed
6
Sift together the combined flours and cocoa
7
In a separate bowl, combine the beaten eggs, vanilla, and coffee-flavored liqueur
8
Add the flour mixture alternately with egg mixture to the basic chocolate mixture
9
This is a thin mixture do not over beat
10
Pour the mixture into the prepared pan and place into the preset oven
11
Bake for 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 hours at 300 degrees F
12
Check with a skewer to be sure the cake is cooked through
13
Cool the cake for 20 minutes before removing it from the pan
14
Barely melt the chocolate in a double boiler over gentle heat
15
Remove from the heat source and pour into a large mixing bowl then cool for five minutes
16
Add the butter, cream, vanilla, coffee-flavored liqueur, and mix on medium speed until the mixture thickens
17
Finally add the confectioners' sugar in small batches until the mixture holds a medium peak
18
If the kitchen temperature is warm, and the icing is not of spreading consistency place the bowl in the refrigerator for a few minutes, then recommence mixing
19
Slather the icing over the cake with an offset palette knife
20
Yield: icing for 1 cake