Cake Recipes

Mocha Buttercream Chocolate Espresso Cake

This moist espresso and chocolate flavored Mocha Buttercream Chocolate Espresso Cake is brushed with coffee glaze and then finished with a soft mocha buttercream frosting, making every bite melt in your mouth.

Mocha Buttercream Chocolate Espresso Cake

Prep: 40 min | Bake: 33 min | Yield: 16 servings

Ingredients

Chocolate Espresso Cake

  • 1 (4 ounce) Nestlé® Toll House® Dark Chocolate Baking Bar, broken into small pieces
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 1/2 cups packed light brown sugar
  • 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
  • 4 large eggs
  • 2 tablespoons instant espresso powder or instantcoffee granules
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 cup buttermilk

Coffee Glaze

  • 1/4 cup granulated sugar
  • 2 tablespoons water
  • 1 teaspoon instant espresso powder or instant coffee granules

Mocha Buttercream Frosting

  • 1 (4 ounce) Nestlé® Toll House® Dark Chocolate Baking Bar, broken into small pieces
  • 2 teaspoons instant espresso powder or instant coffee granules
  • 3 tablespoons milk
  • 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1/8 teaspoon salt
  • 4 cups powdered sugar

Instructions

Chocolate Espresso Cake

  1. Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and line two 9-inch-round baking pans with wax paper.
  2. Microwave chocolate in small, uncovered, microwave-safe bowl on HIGH (100%) power for 45 seconds; stir. If pieces retain some of their original shape, microwave at additional 10 to 15 second intervals, stirring just until melted. Cool to room temperature.
  3. Combine flour, baking soda and salt in small bowl.
  4. Beat brown sugar, butter, eggs, instant coffee and vanilla extract in large mixer bowl for 3 minutes.
  5. Gradually add melted chocolate and continue beating for an additional minute.
  6. Beat flour mixture into creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk. Pour into prepared pans.
  7. Bake for 33 to 38 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
  8. Cool in pans on wire racks for 10 minutes.
  9. Run knife around edges of cakes. Invert onto wire racks; remove wax paper. Cool completely.
  10. Brush Coffee Glaze over cake layers. Spread Mocha Buttercream Frosting between layers and over top and sides of cake.

Coffee Glaze

  1. Microwave granulated sugar, water and instant coffee in small, uncovered, microwave-safe bowl on HIGH (100%) power for 30 seconds. Stir until sugar and coffee are dissolved.

Mocha Buttercream Frosting

  1. Microwave chocolate in small, uncovered, microwave-safe bowl on HIGH (100%) power for 45 seconds; stir. If pieces retain some of their original shape, microwave at additional 10- to 15-second intervals, stirring just until melted. Cool to room temperature.
  2. Dissolve instant coffee in milk in glass measure. Beat butter, vanilla extract and salt in large mixer bowl for 3 minutes.
  3. Beat in melted chocolate until blended, scraping occasionally.
  4. Gradually beat in powdered sugar until light and fluffy.
  5. Beat in coffee mixture, 1 tablespoon at a time, until desired spreading consistency.

Attribution

Recipe and photo used with permission from: Nestlé and meals.com
By: Nestlé Toll House







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