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Mexican Chocolate Cake with Mocha Buttercream

Mexican Chocolate Cake with Mocha Buttercream — a cake recipe, 14 ingredients, about 120 min.

Serves 10 · 120 min · Cake

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Ingredients

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  • Nonstick cooking spray
  • 3 ounce Ibarra or semisweet chocolate
  • 3 ounces unsweetened chocolate
  • 2 cups cake flour
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon (increase to 2 teaspoons if using the semisweet chocolate)
  • 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
  • 1 cup plus 2 white granulated tablespoons sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 4 large eggs
  • 1 cup milk
  • Mocha Buttercream
  • Cinnamon, unsweetened cocoa, and confectioner's sugar, optional toppings
Make it lactose-friendly
  • 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened → plant butter, ghee (mostly lactose-free), or olive oil
  • 1 cup milk → lactose-free milk, oat milk, or almond milk

Swaps are suggestions, not medical advice. Check labels if lactose is a serious issue for you.

Steps

  1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
  2. Generously spray a deep 9-inch springform pan with nonstick cooking spray.
  3. Melt the chocolates in a double boiler or in a microwave oven at low power.
  4. Set aside to cool.
  5. Sift together the flour, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon into a medium-size bowl.
  6. Place the butter and sugar in a large mixing bowl and cream at high speed with an electric mixer.
  7. Add the vanilla and the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each.
  8. Pour in the cooled chocolate mixture, and beat well until everything is incorporated.
  9. Add ⅓ of the flour mixture, and stir until it is just barely incorporated, then pour in half the milk.
  10. Stir briefly, then repeat with another ⅓ of the flour and the remaining milk.
  11. Add the rest of the flour mixture and stir just enough to blend. Don't over mix, or the cake will toughen.
  12. Spread into the prepared pan and bake for 55 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
  13. Cool completely before assembling and frosting.
  14. Cut the cake into 3 equal layers, using a long serrated knife and a gentle sawing motion.
  15. Spread mocha buttercream between the layers, and stack them evenly.
  16. Spread more buttercream on the sides and the top.
  17. Artfully sprinkle the top with extra cinnamon, cocoa, and confectioner's sugar, if desired.

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Source

Wikibooks Cookbook — adapted under CC BY-SA 3.0