Decadent Chocolate Cake
Serves: 4
Presley Zulauf
1 January 1970
Based on User reviews:
50
Spice
40
Sweetness
45
Sourness
43
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Prep time (avg)
4.4
Difficulty
Ingredients:
1 cup
Butter (softened)1.5 cups
Sugar4
Eggs1 tsp
Baking Soda1 cup
Buttermilk2.5 cups
All-Purpose Flour1 cup
Chocolate Syrup2 tsps
Vanilla Extract4 tbsps
Shortening (divided)Directions:
1
Preheat oven to 300 degrees F
2
Cream and butter and sugar n a large mixing bowl, using a hand-held electric mixer
3
Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating after each addition
4
In a separate bowl stir together baking soda and buttermilk
5
Add flour to the butter mixture alternately with buttermilk, beginning and ending with flour
6
Stir in the mini morsels and melted baking chocolate, then add chocolate syrup and vanilla extract
7
Spoon batter into a heavily greased and floured 10-inch tube pan
8
Bake for 1 1/2 hours until cake springs back when touched
9
Remove from the oven and invert immediately onto a serving plate
10
Cool completely
11
For the topping: In a microwave bowl melt white chocolate with 2 tablespoons shortening in the microwave
12
Drizzle over cake
13
In another bowl melt 1/2 cup mini chocolate morsels with remaining 2 tablespoons shortening in microwave
14
Drizzle over cake
15
This cake can be baked in 12 mini Bundt pans
16
Allow 1 mini cake per serving
17
Freeze remaining cakes for a quick dessert for your next dinner party
18
Per serving: Calories 665; Total Fat 34g; (Sat Fat 20 g, Mono Fat 6 g, Poly Fat 1 g); Protein 9 g; Carb 82 g; Fiber 1 g; Cholesterol 120 mg; Sodium 133 mg