Chocolate Kahlua Cake with
Strawberry Buttercream Frosting is a gorgeous and delicious cake that is
covered in kahlua, moist and filled with delicious strawberry buttercream, and
completed with drizzled ganache.
Cake Ingredients
3 C flour
3 C Sugar
1 1/2 C special dark
chocolate cocoa powder
1 tbsp baking powder
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 tsp kosher salt
4 large eggs
1/2 C sour cream
1 C buttermilk
1 C warm water
1/2 cup Kahlua
1/2 tsp espresso powder
1/2 C canola oil
1 tbsp pure vanilla extract
Strawberry Buttercream
Frosting ingredients
2 C unsalted sweet cream
butter, softened
6 C powdered sugar
4 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 C finely diced
strawberries
5-7 TBSP heavy whipping cream
Strawberries for topping
1 large piping bag fitted
with star tip
Large ice cream scooper
Chocolate Ganache Ingredients
1 C semi sweet chocolate
chips
1/2 C heavy whipping cream
1 large squeeze bottle
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
and spray three 9 in cake pans with baking spray
In a small bowl, whisk
together the espresso, kahlua and the warm water until combined
Using your standing mixer,
whisk together the flour, sugar, cocoa
powder, baking soda, baking
powder and salt until combined
Gradually add in the eggs,
sour cream, buttermilk, espresso, oil and
vanilla extract until
combined and Divide the batter between the 3 pans
Place in the oven to bake for
25-35 minutes or until a tooth pick
comes out clean
Allow cakes to cool for 20
minutes
Frosting Directions
Using a standing mixer, cream
together the butter, vanilla, powdered
sugar, diced strawberries and
heavy whipping cream until combined and
creamy and stiff with peaks
Scoop 1 C of frosting into
the piping bag
Directions to build the cake
Place 1 layer of cake onto
the cake board
Using the ice cream scooper,
scoop out 4-6 scoops of frosting and
smooth evenly on one layer of
cake
Place another layer of cake
on top and spread more frosting
Place the last layer on top
and frost the remaining cake with remaining frosting
Chocolate ganache directions
Using a small pot, heat up
the heavy whipping cream until steaming
While heavy whipping cream is
heating up, place chocolate chips into a
heat-proof bowl
Once the heavy whipping cream
is heated, pour over the chocolate chips
Allow to sit for 1 minute
before whisking until smooth
Pour ganache into the squeeze
bottle
Pipe dollops of ganache over
the edge of the cake
Pipe dollops of frosting onto
the top of the cake
Place strawberries into the
dollops of frosting
Cut and serve and enjoy
Can this cake be made and frosted in the morning and refrigerated until served in the evening? Questioning if the frosting or ganache will weep and if the strawberries will sink into frosting?
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