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Moist chocolate cake

Recipe:

Cake:

All Purpose Flour                        2 cups 

Sugar                                                   2 cups 

Unsweetened Cocoa powder      3/4 cups

Baking Soda                                  1 + 1/2 tsps

Baking Powder                            2 tsps

Salt                                                      1 tsp

Instant coffee powder                 1 tsp

Milk                                                  1 cups

Vegetable Oil                                 1/2 cups               

Eggs                                                  2, Large

Vanilla Extract                           2 tsps

Boiling water                              1 cup

 

Chocolate Buttercream Frosting:

Butter                                                     1 + 1/2 cup

Unsweetened Cocoa powder          1 cup

Ising Sugar                                         5 cups 

Milk                                                       1/2 cup

Vanilla Extract                                  2 tsps

Instant Coffee Powder                 1/2 tsp

 

Ganish:(Optional)

Strawberries 

Kitkat  

 

Procedures:

Cake:

  1. Preheat the oven to 350F. Grease two 9-inch baking pan and lightly flouring.

  2. In a large bowl, add in all the dry ingredients (flour, sugar, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and coffee powder), mix well.

  3. Then, add in wet ingredients (milk, vegetable oil, eggs, and vanilla extract) and mix together until they well combined. 

  4. Reduce speed to add in the boiling water (if you are using a stand mixer), be careful for this step. Beat for at least a minute.

  5. Transfer the cake batter into two baking pans evenly. 

  6. Bake for 30-35 minutes until a toothpick iserted in the center comes out clean.

  7. Allow it to cool completely before putting on the frosting.

 

Frosting:

  1. Using a stand mixer to cream butter and cocoa powder until they well-combined.

  2. Add in sugar and milk into the mixture slowly. (1 cup of sugar followed by a tablespoon of milk)

  3. Add vanilla extract and coffee powder and mix well.

 

 

Assemble:

  1. On the turning table, place a layer of cake and put on frosting. Then, cover with another frosting. 

  2. Cover the whole cake with frosting, don't need to be perfect in this case.

  3. Then slowly stick the kitkat around the  cake, it might not stable so I added a ribbon to make it look nicer. 

  4. Ganish with strawberries on top of the cake.

  5. Refrigerate overnight. 

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