Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, from scratch chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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Save time and buy groceries online from Amazon.co.uk Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting In a mixing bowl with an electric mixer, cream together the butter and cream cheese. Sift the confectioners' sugar into a bowl. I use about half the sugar as regular cakes so it's less sweet than normal. Add up to double the sugar if you like sweeter ones.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook from scratch chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting using 16 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make From Scratch Chocolate Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting:
- Get flour (85 g)
- Prepare unsweetened cocoa powder
- Get baking powder
- Get baking soda
- Take salt
- Prepare sugar (add up to 1/2 cup for sweeter cake)
- Prepare egg
- Make ready butter (60 g)
- Take vanilla
- Make ready milk (120 ml)
- Prepare ** Cream Cheese Frosting **
- Prepare cream cheese (3.5 oz)
- Get butter (45 g)
- Take vanilla
- Prepare powdered sugar (60 g)
- Make ready Coconut flakes or sprinkles (optional)
Scrape down the sides and bottom of the bowl to ensure. There are only four ingredients in this frosting!. All easy things to find: chocolate chips, cream cheese, powdered sugar and heavy cream! Be sure to use block-style cream cheese NOT soft spreadable cream cheese.
Instructions to make From Scratch Chocolate Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting:
- Let the egg and butter sit out at room temperature for 30 minutes. Preheat oven to 180C/350F.
- Put butter in a large bowl and cream it with a fork or mixer until creamy, soft and a little fluffy.
- Add the sugar to the butter (I used natural sugar so it looks brown here) a little at a time and mix well.
- Add egg and vanilla. Continue to beat until well mixed.
- In a separate bowl, mix together the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Gradually mix the flour mixture and the milk into the butter and egg mixture. Beat until smooth.
- Grease well a 8-inch (20.5-21 cm) pie dish or cake pan with oil or butter. Pour in the batter and spread out evenly.
- Bake in the oven for 30 minutes. Check the center with a toothpick - if it comes out clean it's done! Let cool on a rack for 10 minutes. Remove and let cool completely before frosting, about 1 hour.
- While the cake is cooking prepare the icing. Let the cream cheese and butter soften a little at room temperature. Put in a bowl and beat/cream until smooth.
- Gradually mix in the powdered sugar.
- When the icing becomes soft enough to spread, it's done! Store the fridge until the cake has cooled.
- When the cake is completely cooled, you can spread on the icing! If the icing hardened a little in fridge, let it warm up a few minutes until you can spread it.
- Finish up by sprinkling some coconut flakes or sprinkles. Slice and serve!!
All easy things to find: chocolate chips, cream cheese, powdered sugar and heavy cream! Be sure to use block-style cream cheese NOT soft spreadable cream cheese. Melted chocolate gives the deep chocolate flavor. Some recipes for this type of frosting include butter and cocoa powder. The chocolate cake is so dense and rich and the icing is THE BEST icing I've ever tasted, a perfect marriage of cream cheese and buttercream.
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