
Double Chocolate Cake with Caramel Buttercream
Ingredients
The Cake
Buttercream
Directions
The Cake
- Step 1:
Grease three 15cm round tins and line the base with baking paper.
- Step 2:
Preheat oven to 160ºC
- Step 3:
Mix lemon juice and milk, allow to curdle.
- Step 4:
With a stand mixture, whisk eggs until light and fluffy.
- Step 5:
Mix chocolate with the coffee and mix well. Set aside.
- Step 6:
Sieve the flour, baking powder, bicarb, sugar, salt and cocoa powder.
- Step 7:
Turn the mixer down to the lowest setting, add oil and whisk well.
- Step 8:
Add the milk, the coffee mixture and then add the dry ingredients slowly until completely combined.
- Step 9:
Divide between the tins.
- Step 10:
Bake for until a tester comes out clean.
- Step 11:
Allow to cool completely in the tins.
The Buttercream
- Step 12:
Combine the butter and the icing sugar in a stand mixture.
- Step 13:
Using the paddle attachment, beat well.
- Step 14:
Add the milk and caramel and combine well.
To assemble
- Step 15:
Remove cake from tin and remove baking paper. Place onto serving dish.
- Step 16:
Spread a third of the buttercream on the first cake. Drizzle caramel on top of the buttercream.
- Step 17:
Repeat with the next two cake layers.
- Step 18:
Store in an airtight container for up to a week.




