Black Midnight Cake

Black Midnight Cake

Ingredients

For the Cake:

•  2/3 cup dark cocoa powder (we used Hershey’s Special Dark Cocoa Powder to get that deep dark color)
•  1 cup hot strong brewed coffee
•  1 pinch cayenne
•  1/2 cup vegetable oil
•   2 cups sugar
•  2 large eggs
•  1 cup buttermilk
•  1 teaspoon vanilla
•  1 3/4 cups all purpose flour
•  1 teaspoon salt
•  2 teaspoon baking soda
•  1 teaspoon baking powder
•  Butter for greasing the pans
•  Two parchment circles, cut the size of the bottom of your cake pans
•  Cocoa for dusting the pans

 

For the Frosting:

•  1 cup dark cocoa (we used Hershey’s Special Dark Cocoa to get that deep dark color)
•  4 ½ cups confectioners’ sugar
•  1 ½ sticks butter, softened
•  ½ cup buttermilk
•  2 teaspoon vanilla extract

To Prepare the Cake:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

2. In a small bowl, dissolve cocoa powder and cayenne with hot brewed coffee and set aside.

3. In the bowl of a stand mixer with paddle attachment, cream oil and sugar until well combined.

4. Add eggs and beat until light and creamy, about 1-2 minutes. This process beats air into the mixture. Scrape paddle and bowl and beat once.

5. Slowly add in coffee/cocoa mixture, buttermilk and vanilla and beat until batter is smooth. Scrape paddle and bowl and beat once.

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Created: BANKHEALTHY

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