Best-Ever Chocolate Cake.
You can cook Best-Ever Chocolate Cake using 19 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Best-Ever Chocolate Cake
- It's of Cake.
- It's of all-purpose flour.
- Prepare of granulated sugar.
- You need of unsweetened coco powder.
- You need of baking soda.
- Prepare of salt.
- Prepare of vegetable shortening.
- It's of milk.
- It's of cold black coffee.
- It's of vanilla extract.
- Prepare of eggs.
- You need of Frosting.
- It's of unsweetened cocoa powder.
- It's of softened buttet.
- You need of light corn syrup.
- You need of teaspoon salt.
- You need of warm water.
- Prepare of confectioner`s sugar.
- You need of chopped walnuts, divided.
Best-Ever Chocolate Cake instructions
- Preheat oven to 350. Grease and flour two 9inch cake pans. In a large bowl, mix the flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt..
- Beat in the shortening with an electric mixer on low speed. Beat in milk, coffee and vanilla until combined. Increase speed to high and beat for 2 minutes . Add the eggs ; beat for 2 minutes..
- Pour the batter into the prepared pans; smooth with Spatula. Bake the cakes in the middle of the oven until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 30-35 minutes. Cool the cakes in the pans for 5 minutes, then turn the cakes onto wire racks to cool completely..
- For the frosting, combine the cocoa powder, butter, corn syrup, vanilla and salt in large bowl. Beat on medium speed for 2 minutes. Add the warm warm warm water; mix well , Beat until the confectioners` sugar in two batches. Beat until smooth..
- Place one layer top side down on large flat plate. Spread with 1 cup of frosting; sprinkle with 2/3 cup walnuts. Top with the remaining cake layer, top side up. Frost the top and sides with the remaining frosting , swirling with a small spatula. Garnish the cake with the remaining walnuts..