Chocolate Walnut Cake with Rich Chocolate Butter-Cream Icing. Indeed, with a rich buttery-chocolaty flavour and an awesomely fluffy texture, the cake is a delight Canned cherries are the perfect garnish for this brilliant cake, as they not only taste great along with the cream and chocolate cake, but also look brilliant against the chocolate buttercream background. This chocolate cake recipe is for chocolate lovers only. Check out my channel :https I am making a four layer chocolate cake here frosting each layer with buttercream frosting & topping up with dark chocolate ganache.
Perfect for a celebration or an afternoon snack! You can make them look beautiful without much effort. Like my Red Velvet Bundt Cake with Cream Cheese Icing that simply decorated with a sprinkling of crumbs. You can have Chocolate Walnut Cake with Rich Chocolate Butter-Cream Icing using 13 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Chocolate Walnut Cake with Rich Chocolate Butter-Cream Icing
- You need 1 of (CAKE).
- Prepare 200 grams of Unsalted butter.
- You need 150 grams of Dark chocolate, chopped.
- Prepare 1 1/2 cup of Self raising flour.
- Prepare 3/4 cup of Caster sugar.
- Prepare 2 of Eggs, lightly beaten.
- You need 3/4 cup of Milk.
- Prepare 1/2 cup of Chopped walnuts.
- Prepare 1 of (ICING).
- Prepare 60 grams of Unsalted butter.
- You need 1/3 cup of Icing sugar.
- You need 60 grams of Dark chocolate.
- You need 1 tsp of Vanilla essence.
A rich moist chocolate cake with a chocolate buttercream icing. This is the best cake in the world! Thankfully, this chocolate buttercream comes together quickly and makes plenty to frost a three layer cake or three dozen cupcakes beautifully. Here's my Perfect Chocolate Buttercream Frosting Recipe.
Chocolate Walnut Cake with Rich Chocolate Butter-Cream Icing instructions
- Pre-heat oven to 180*C..
- Brush a 20 x 5cm round cake tin with butter and line with grease paper..
- Place butter and chocolate (for cake) in a stainless mixing bowl and melt over a pot with boiling water..
- Stir until combined and remove from heat..
- Add flour, eggs, sugar & milk to mixture- whisk until smooth before folding in nuts..
- Pour mixture into prepared tin, smooth the surface and place into oven for 55 minutes (or until it passes the skewer test) then remove from oven..
- Allow cake 5 minutes in cake tin before turning out onto a wire rack to cool. Now you can work on your rich chocolate icing..
- (ICING) Place chocolate, butter & icing into a stainless steal mixing bowl and melt over a pot with boiling water. Remove from heat..
- Add icing sugar and whisk with hand mixer until smooth. Allow to cool. If you've timed it right, icing will harden just enough to spread over cooked cake..
- Sprinkle some chopped walnuts and choc chips over the top and enjoy with a nice hot coffee!.
I can't wait to hear how you love it. This is my favorite chocolate buttercream recipe. It's incredibly rich, creamy, silky, smooth, and easy to work with for decorating cakes and cupcakes! Put the chocolate in a heatproof bowl over a pan of barely simmering water (make sure the bowl isn 't touching the water). An easy chocolate buttercream that tastes better than the usual, because of the real melted chocolate.
