Happy birthday Jorge!! He has a message for you (starts on sec. 25) 🙂
Next week we will show you the Up cake we prepared fot his school mates!
{Simple chocolate cake}
Summary: Simple chocolate cake, decorated with petal effect
Preparation: 30 min
Cooking time: 30 min
Yield: 24
Ingredients
- 2 cake layers, 7 inches (if you want 4 layers as in the pictures, you have to make the recipe twice):
- 250 g butter, room temperature (two sticks)
- 250 g sugar (1 1/8 cup)
- 4 eggs
- 225 g all purpose flour (2 cups)
- 25 g corstarch (1/4 cup)
- 8 g baking powder (1/2 tablespoon)
- 750 g dark chocolate (26 oz), melted
- 375 g butter, room temperature (3 sticks)
- 100 g confectioners’ sugar (1 cup)
For the chocolate buttercream:
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350 ÂşF
- Prepare two 7 inches cake pans (butter and flour the bottom and the sides of the pans)
- In a large bowl, place butter and sugar, and mix well
- Add eggs one by one
- Add flour, cornstarch and baking powder, and beat until combined
- Pour batter into pans and bake for 25 minutes
- Leave the cakes in their pans on a wire rack for 10 minutes and then turn out to cool.
- If you are going to prepare 4 layers as in the pictures, carefully wash the cake pans, and repeat the whole process
- The cakes can be frozen until needed
- Now we are going to prepare the chocolate buttercream
- Using and electric mixer, cream butter and sugar, until light and fluffy (about 5 minutes). Add melted chocolate, that shall be cool, and mix well. Now the buttercream is ready to use
- Fill the cake layers with chocolate buttercream, and then frost it with a thin layer of buttercream
- Place the cake in the fridge for 15 minutes to set
- Place the remaining chocolate buttercream on a piping bag fitted with a medium sized round tip
- Create a row of dots (vertical), as shown on the pictures
- Using a
spatula, spread every dot to the right, in one motion (or to the left if you are left-handed). Clean the spatula between every swipe - Once you have spread one row of dots, add another row of dots and repeat the pattern until the whole cake is covered with “petals”
- If you are not going to eat the cake on the same day, please avoid keeping it in the fridge if possible, so that the chocolate buttercream remains creamy
Sources:
El rincĂłn de Bea: CĂłmo cubrir y rellenar un layer cake
My Cake School: Petal effect
I got the bunting cake topper here —> Etsy
You can do something similar by yourself with this free printable —> Kara’s Party Ideas
Hi, you are absolutely wonderful!
though one Q, was it meant to be butter, in the ingredients…???
(375 g sugar, room temperature (3 sticks))
thanks!
Thanks for noticing Maya! I have already corrected the recipe 🙂 Have a nice day!
What a beautiful cake and cake topper. These pictures will help me. Thank you.
Beautiful cake and decoration … how did you move it afterwards ?
I did not move it… I just removed the paper parchment underneath the cake (it can be seen in the step by step process)
Hi, beautiful website. Wonderful n surely delicious cake…can I blog about your cakes? Can I use your photos? TQ
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