This Salted Caramel Chocolate Cake is moist and sinfully decadent! So in case you're keen on chocolate and caramel, you’ll LOVE this simple recipe for the right way to make Chocolate Caramel Cake!
Three layers of Salted Caramel Chocolate Cake slathered in do-it-yourself Salted Caramel Chocolate Frosting. So decadent!
Chocolate Caramel Cake Recipe
Tomorrow is my birthday and I’m these days feeling ALL of the feelings. Also these days within the car, simply by means of to the beach, consuming a big slice of cake and chasing it with an iced coffee. If at the moment is any indication of what 29 goes to be like, I assume this yr goes to be lovely darn great!
Now as you recognize I’m a diehard chocolate lover, so it’s no marvel my birthday cake this yr is a salted caramel chocolate cake! It’s three layers of heaven! And strangely simple to bake.
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Three layers of Salted Caramel Chocolate Cake slathered in do-it-yourself Salted Caramel Chocolate Frosting. So decadent!
I bake myself a birthday cake each yr and this yr I needed anything sinfully decadent. At first I concept it could be demise by means of means of chocolate cake (one of my favorites), but then I began dreaming of anything drenched in gooey salted caramel…
Finally, I decided to complete on deal with myself and create a cake that good points BOTH chocolate and caramel! Because why not, right?!
So, with out added ado, meet my 29th birthday dessert: Salted Caramel Chocolate Cake. Isn’t she only a knockout?! ↓
Three layers of Salted Caramel Chocolate Cake slathered in do-it-yourself Salted Caramel Chocolate Frosting. So decadent!
Tips and Tricks for Recipe Success:
This recipe calls for vegetable oil, but you'll be able to use an identical quantity of canola oil or melted coconut oil in its place. I don't suggest substituting oil with butter.
For finest results, make certain your eggs, egg yolks, sour cream, and milk have all come to room temperature earlier than you commence baking.
When you degree your flour, be certain you’re no longer packing it into the measuring cup. Packed flour will yield a dense and dry cake.
The cake layers must all be baked at the core rack of your oven. If there’s no longer sufficient room on your oven to bake all of them in an even row at once, merely bake them in NULL batches.
For the frosting, you’ll desire to make certain your butter is VERY tender earlier than creaming it.
The chocolate muffins must be fully cool earlier than including the frosting and salted caramel.
The meeting is a NULL aspect process: you’ll location one cake degree on a enormous plate, upper it with a skinny layer of frosting, then upload the caramel, then upload one other cake degree and repeat. Once you’ve delivered the last cake degree you’ll desire to depart the upper naked and location the cake within the fridge to set for one hour. Once it’s set, you'll be able to end frosting.
Three layers of Salted Caramel Chocolate Cake slathered in do-it-yourself Salted Caramel Chocolate Frosting. So decadent!
Alright guys, time for me to wipe the crumbs of my celebration gown and soar celebrating! There’s a mimosa and lengthy nap at the seashore in my very close to future…
↑ But seriously, can daily be my birthday?!
Three layers of Salted Caramel Chocolate Cake slathered in do-it-yourself Salted Caramel Chocolate Frosting. So decadent!
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Three layers of Salted Caramel Chocolate Cake slathered in do-it-yourself Salted Caramel Chocolate Frosting. So decadent!
Three layers of Salted Caramel Chocolate Cake slathered in do-it-yourself Salted Caramel Chocolate Frosting. So decadent!
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Salted Caramel Chocolate Cake
prep 1 hour, 1 mincook 30 minsinactive 1 hourtotal 2 hours, 31 mins
author bakerbynature
yield 9" layer cake
Three layers of Salted Caramel Chocolate Cake slathered in do-it-yourself Chocolate Frosting. So decadent!
Ingredients
For the chocolate cake:
2 cups granulated sugar
1 cup pale brown sugar, packed
2 and 3/4 cups all-purpose flour (not packed!)
1 and 1/2 cups unsweetened cocoa powder, sifted
3 teaspoons baking soda
1 and 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 and 1/4 teaspoons salt
3 enormous eggs + 2 enormous egg yolks, at room temperature
1 and 1/2 cups full-fat sour cream
1/3 cup complete milk
3/4 cup vegetable oil (you might also sub in melted coconut oil)
2 tablespoons vanilla extract
1 and 1/2 cups hot water
For the salted caramel chocolate frosting:
2 cups unsalted butter (4 sticks, 16 ounces), VERY soft
4 and 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar, sifted
3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder, sifted
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons heavy cream (more if needed)
2 tablespoons salted caramel sauce
Garnish:
1 and 1/4 cups salted caramel sauce
Flaky sea salt
Instructions
For the chocolate cake:
Preheat oven to 350°(F). Cut out three 9-inch spherical segments of parchment paper to line your cake pans with. Spray each pan generously - facets and backside - with nonstick cooking spray, then location the parchment paper cut out within the backside of the pans and spray again. It's principal to make certain each little bit of pan and paper are sprayed so your muffins do not get stuck. Set pans aside.
In the bowl of a stand mixer geared up with the paddle attachment, or in a enormous bowl utilizing a hand held electrical mixer, combine equally sugars, flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder and salt; blend on low till dry meals are competently combined. Use your arms to spoil up any enormous clumps, if needed.
In a separate bowl combine the eggs, egg yolks, sour cream, milk, oil and vanilla extract; blend till fully combined. Pour combination into the dry meals and beat on low till just incorporated. Pour in hot water and proceed blending till fully combined; about 1 minute. The batter will fairly thin.
Divide batter flippantly amongst ready pans. Bake in preheated oven for 30 minutes, or till a wood toothpick or cake tester inserted within the core of a cake comes out blank or with only a couple of moist crumbs attached. Cool muffins for 10 minutes within the pan earlier than removal from pans and shifting to a cooling rack; cool muffins fully earlier than frosting.
For the chocolate frosting:
In a stand mixer geared up with the paddle attachment, cream the softened butter on medium-speed till fully smooth; about 3 minutes.
Turn the mixer off and sift the powdered sugar and cocoa into the blending bowl. Turn the mixer at the lowest pace and blend till the sugar/cocoa had been absorbed by means of means of the butter; about 2 minutes. Increase mixer pace to medium; upload in vanilla extract, salt, heavy cream and salted caramel; beat for three minutes. If your frosting seems just a bit too thin, upload just a bit extra confectioners' sugar; If your frosting desires to be thinner, upload added heavy cream, 1 tablespoon at a time.
Assembly:
Using a serrated knife, closely trim the raised upper of every cake, making every one an even, degree surface. Transfer 1 layer to a enormous plate or cake stand. Spread a skinny layer of frosting on top, then upload a 1/2 cup of caramel; upper with one other cake layer, and repeat, thinly unfold it with a layer of frosting, then including a 1/2 cup of caramel. Top last cake layer and location cake within the fridge to set for 1 hour. Once set, finishing frosting the upper and facets of the cake. Sprinkle with sea salt. Slice and serve, or hold refrigerated for as much as 5 days.
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