Recipe: The Best Chocolate Cake
Summary: It’s chocolatey and so moist it borders on fudgey, but still light and crumbed enough in texture to constitute a cake.
Ingredients
Chocolate Cassis Cake:
- 1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder (not Dutch-process)
- 1 1/2 cups brewed coffee
- 1/2 cup Cassis
- 2 sticks (1 cup) unsalted butter, cut into 1-inch pieces
- 2 cups sugar
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/4 teaspoons baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
Vanilla Swiss Meringue Buttercream
- 10 egg whites
- 3 cups sugar
- 2 lbs butter (8 sticks), cut into pieces
- 1 ½ tablespoon pure vanilla extract
Photo credit: Bakers Royale
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