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Devil’s Food Cake with Chocolate Hazelnut Frosting

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You don’t really need to have a specific reason to make this rich and delicious chocolate cake. I just happened to make it to celebrate my blog’s first birthday.

Ingredients

  • FOR THE CAKE:
  • 4 ounces, weight Unsweetened Chocolate, Chopped
  • ¾ cups Dutch-processed Cocoa
  • 1-½ cup Boiling Water
  • ¾ cups Unbleached All-purpose Flour
  • 1 cup Plain Cake Flour
  • 1 teaspoon Baking Soda
  • ¼ teaspoons Salt
  • 2 sticks (8 Oz) Unsalted Butter
  • 1-½ cup Packed Dark Brown Sugar
  • 3 whole Large Eggs, Room Temperature
  • ½ cups Sour Cream
  • 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
  • ½ cups Chocolate Covered Cocoa Nibs (optional For Garnish)
  • 9 whole Strawberries (optional For Garnish)
  • _____
  • FOR THE FROSTING:
  • 2 sticks (8 Oz) Unsalted Butter
  • ½ cups Shortening
  • ⅔ cups Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
  • 4 cups Confectionar's Sugar
  • Milk As Needed
  • 1-¼ cup Hazelnut Spread
  • 2 teaspoons Vanilla Extract
  • _____
  • FOR THE GANACHE:
  • 1 cup Heavy Whipping Cream
  • 8 ounces, fluid Bittersweet Chocolate Chips

Preparation

DEVIL’S FOOD CAKE
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Position racks in the bottom and top thirds of the oven and heat the oven to 350°F. Butter three 9×2-inch round cake pans and line each with a parchment round. Butter the parchment, then dust with flour and knock out the excess or spray them with non-stick cooking spray.

Combine the chopped chocolate and cocoa in a medium bowl, pour the boiling water over it and whisk until smooth. Set aside.

Whisk together the flour, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.

Cream the butter and sugar in a stand mixer on medium-high speed for about 3 minutes. Add the eggs one at a time, and beat until combined for about 3 minutes.

Reduce the speed to medium; add the sour cream and vanilla and beat until combined, for about 10 seconds. On low speed start adding about 1/3 of the flour mixture then about 1/2 of the chocolate mixture, repeat and then end with the flour mixture. Beat until just combined, about 15 seconds. Make sure you don’t over beat the batter.

Remove the bowl from the mixer; scrape the bottom and sides of the bowl with a rubber spatula and stir gently to thoroughly combine.

Divide the batter evenly among the prepared cake pans and smooth the batter to the edges of each pan with a rubber spatula. Place 2 pans on the lower middle rack and 1 on the upper-middle rack. bake the cakes until a toothpick or skewer inserted in the center comes out clean, 18-21 minutes.

Cool the cakes on a wire rack 15-20 minutes. Run a knife around each pan perimeter to loosen. Make sure the cakes have cooled off completely before you assemble the cake.

CHOCOLATE HAZELNUT FROSTING
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Cream together the butter and shortening. Whisk together the cocoa and sugar, and gradually add to the creamed mixture. Add one tablespoon of milk at a time until desired consistency is reached. Finally add the hazelnut spread and vanilla and blend until smooth and creamy.

CHOCOLATE GANACHE
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In a medium saucepan heat up the heavy cream, make sure it doesn’t come to a boil. Remove from heat and stir in the chocolate chips and whisk to melt and combine. It’s ready to use once it has cooled down to room temperature.

ASSEMBLY
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Put your first cake on your serving platter, flat side up. Then build your cake. Place a thick layer of Chocolate Hazelnut Frosting between each layer of Devil’s Food Cake. Then coat the entire cake with a thin layer of the frosting and place in the refrigerator to harden. Remove the cake from the refrigerator and finish frosting the cake with a thick layer of frosting.

Place a ring of chocolate covered cocoa nibs on the base of the cake. Drizzle the cake with ganache starting from the center. Dip the strawberries in the ganache and place on top of the cake.

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soufflebombay on 8.9.2010

Beautiful…Happy Blog Birthday to you :)

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deliciousforkids on 8.9.2010

Uf jusrtgreat!

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Twinks on 8.6.2010

That’s one beautiful cake!

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