Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, hot chocolate chocolate cake w/ cream cheese frosting. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
How to make chocolate cream cheese frosting! This recipe is made with cocoa powder and is simple, fool-proof, and richly chocolaty. It's creamy and smooth but is still sturdy enough for piping and would be the perfect complement to your favorite cake or cupcake recipe!
Hot chocolate chocolate cake w/ cream cheese frosting is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Hot chocolate chocolate cake w/ cream cheese frosting is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have hot chocolate chocolate cake w/ cream cheese frosting using 14 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Hot chocolate chocolate cake w/ cream cheese frosting:
- Take 2 cups flour
- Get 1 cup sugar
- Take 1 1/2 tablespoon baking soda
- Get 1 1/2 tablespoon baking powder
- Take 1/2 teaspoon salt
- Get 9 packets hot chocolate mix
- Get 1 tablespoon vanilla
- Get 3 large eggs
- Get 3/4 cups oil
- Make ready 1 cup milk
- Take 1 cup boiling water
- Prepare 1 package cream cheese
- Take 3/4 cup butter unsalted
- Prepare 1 cup powdered sugar
For the cream cheese frosting: Beat the cream cheese and butter together in a large bowl with an electric mixer until thoroughly combined and smooth. Spoon the remaining frosting onto the cake and smooth evenly over the entire cake with the offset spatula. Dust lightly with cocoa powder and. This Chocolate Frosting recipe is essentially a chocolate buttercream because it's made with lots of softened butter that is whipped together with powdered sugar, cocoa powder, vanilla and milk.
Instructions to make Hot chocolate chocolate cake w/ cream cheese frosting:
- Start with your flour, sugar, baking soda and powder, salt, hot cocoa packets, and vanilla. Mix.
- Add your eggs to the mix, add milk and oil. Mix well
- Once everything is incorporated add the boiling water and mix well. Mixture will be watery.
- Add cake mix to your choice of pan this batter can make a two layer cake for round pans or as I did in a fluted bunds pan. Make sure you grease your pan.
- You want to bake for 30-35 min in a 350 degree oven. until knife or tooth pick comes out clean.
- While cake is baking start your yummy frosting. What is cake with no frosting. You want your cream cheese room temp so keep it out if your making this straight away.
- I usually mix this by hand with a whisk because I'm a glutton for punishment but you can use your mixer. In a bowl add your cream cheese a splash of vanilla and butter please unsalted unless you like salty frosting. Mix or cream mixture together, once smooth incorporate the powdered sugar slowly that way you can taste as you go until your desired sweetness, then add hot cocoa powder and continue to mix well. Once smooth and creamy set aside.
- Once cake is done and totally cooled turn onto serving plate. Go crazy with frosting. I don't feel you can overdo frosting so have fun. Cake is not super sweet and frosting is light and not overwhelmingly sweet. Please enjoy, share and comment.
Before you get started, make sure you are using very soft butter, sifted powdered sugar, sifted cocoa powder. White chocolate is not my first choice of chocolate that I would choose. This frosting is still not my favorite, just because I don't like any frosting with butter, but for you that love White Always have this in mind, from my experience teaching a cupcake class in Dubai where it is so hot, if you live in a hot. The chocolate cake is really moist and overflowing with rich chocolate flavor, with a hint o' Guinness in the background. I thought about going with something different for the frosting, but there's a reason cream cheese is the classic pairing here.
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