Salted Caramel Chocolate Cake (Caramel Chocolate Frosting)

This salted caramel chocolate cake recipe has us obsessed! 3 moist chocolate cake layers, gooey salted caramel sauce, and salted caramel chocolate frosting! Want I say extra? This cake has a lot chocolate taste and is the right dessert for chocolate lovers!

Right now is my twenty ninth birthday! And I’m (clearly) celebrating with cake… salted caramel chocolate cake to be precise. I’ve been testing this recipe eternally and at last cracked the code simply in time for my b-day.

This chocolate cake is NOT your common chocolate cake recipe. Extremely moist, dense, and wealthy with chocolate taste… and the cake layers are sandwiched with gooey caramel sauce and salted caramel chocolate buttercream. I’ll by no means make chocolate cake one other method!!!

Substances for Chocolate Cake Batter

• Scorching Water: Or sizzling espresso, for those who like a refined espresso taste in your cake batter.
• Sugar: Brown sugar and granulated sugar create candy and moist cake layers!
• All-Objective Flour: I can’t advocate utilizing one other number of flour. That is crucial of the dry substances, so ensure to measure appropriately.
• Unsweetened Cocoa Powder: Don’t use sizzling chocolate combine, sweetened cocoa, or dutch-process cocoa powder. Sift your cocoa powder earlier than use for greatest outcomes.
• Baking Soda: Helps the cake batter unfold for even cake layers.
• Baking Powder: Helps the cake layers rise within the oven for fluffy cake layers.
• Salt: Enhances the chocolate taste and helps steadiness sweetness.
• Eggs: You’ll use 3 massive eggs and a pair of massive egg yolks. Be sure your eggs are at room temperature.
• Bitter Cream: For those who can’t discover bitter cream, full fats plain Greek yogurt works as a sub.
• Milk: Entire milk works greatest, however low-fat milk will work in a pinch.
• Oil: Vegetable oil, canola oil, or melted coconut oil will all work right here.
• Vanilla: 2 tablespoons of pure vanilla extract improve the chocolate taste.

Substances for Chocolate Buttercream Frosting

• Unsalted Butter: Be sure your butter is at room temperature so there aren’t any massive chunks in your chocolate frosting.
• Confectioners’ Sugar: Sifting your sugar will present a silky easy chocolate buttercream frosting. I don’t counsel lowering the quantity of sugar, as a result of it creates a thick chocolate frosting.
• Unsweetened Cocoa Powder: Right here you need to use common cocoa powder. Or use Dutch-process cocoa powder for an additional darkish chocolate frosting.
• Vanilla Extract: Enhances the chocolate taste within the chocolate frosting.
• Salt: Enhances the chocolate taste within the chocolate frosting and helps steadiness the general sweetness.
• Heavy Cream: Makes the chocolate frosting additional creamy! Use extra if wanted, however solely add a tablespoon at a time to keep away from runny frosting.
• Caramel: Attempt my home made salted caramel sauce or use your favourite store-bought caramel!

Let’s Bake Chocolate Cake!

1. Prep Cake Pans: Make sure you spray the cake pans properly with nonstick baking spray. And line them with parchment paper cut-outs. You don’t need the desserts sticking to the cake pans!
2. Make the Cake Batter: You’ll want a big bowl for chocolate cake, so ensure you have one readily available. This makes a number of moist substances/cake batter!
3. Bake the Muffins: They’ll want about half-hour within the oven. They’re prepared when a toothpick inserted in the course of a cake comes out clear, or with moist crumbs hooked up.
4. Cool the Muffins: Be sure to chill utterly earlier than frosting! Cool desserts at room temperature for about 1 hour, or till utterly cool to the contact.
5. Make the Frosting: Proper earlier than you propose on adorning the cake, make the chocolate buttercream frosting.
6. Assemble the Cake: Trim the cake layers in order that they’re even. Then prime with chocolate buttercream frosting, and a layer of salted caramel sauce. Add one other cake layer, and repeat. For those who’d like, you possibly can drizzle extra caramel on prime of the entire cake after you absolutely frost it.

Ideas for *PERFECT* Chocolate Cake

• This recipe requires vegetable oil, however you need to use an equal quantity of canola oil or melted coconut oil as a substitute. Or, even olive oil will work in a pinch, however will add olive oil taste. I don’t advocate substituting oil with butter.
• For greatest outcomes, ensure your eggs, egg yolks, bitter cream, and milk have all come to room temperature earlier than you start baking. Chilly substances don’t bond and might trigger points with even baking.
• If you measure your flour, be certain you’re not packing it into the measuring cup. Packed flour will yield a dense and dry cake. For greatest outcomes, weigh your flour with a kitchen scale.
• The cake layers ought to all be baked on the center rack of your oven. If there’s not sufficient room in your oven to bake all of them in a fair row without delay, merely bake them in two batches.
• For the chocolate buttercream frosting, you’ll need to ensure your butter is VERY delicate earlier than creaming it. Chilly butter will clump up and gained’t mix evenly.
• The chocolate desserts ought to be utterly cool earlier than including the frosting and salted caramel. This will take anyplace from half-hour to 1 and 1/2 hours. Be affected person!
• The meeting is a two half course of: you’ll place one cake degree on a big plate, prime it with a skinny layer of frosting, then add the caramel, then add one other cake degree and repeat. When you’ve added the ultimate cake degree you’ll need to depart the highest naked and place the cake within the fridge to set for one hour. As soon as it’s set, you possibly can end frosting.

For those who love chocolate cake as a lot as I do, it’s important to do that attractive salted caramel model! It’s received all the pieces and love about chocolate cake, however with a enjoyable and surprising salted caramel twist.

It makes a BIG cake, so it’s good for bigger celebrations or birthday events, and so forth. Leftovers will be wrapped in saran wrap and saved within the fridge for 3 to 4 days. However I doubt they’ll final you that lengthy. This cake by no means lasts greater than a day in my home! It’s borderline addictive!