Chocolate cake with chocolate cream cheese frosting and toffee

Name: Chocolate cake with chocolate cream cheese frosting and toffee
Total time: 5400 s
Yield: 16 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 3/4 cup all-purpose flour; 2 cup sugar; 3/4 cup Hershey's cocoa powder; 2 tsp baking soda; 1 tsp baking powder; 1 tsp kosher salt; 1 cup buttermilk - shaken; 1/2 cup vegetable oil; 2 each extra large eggs- room temperature; 1 tsp black vanilla extract; 2 lb cream cheese at room temperature; 1 cup Freshly brewed hot coffee; 1/2 cup Hershey's cocoa powder; 1/2 stick unsalted butter at room temperature; 1 lb confectioner's sugar; 1 cup toffee; 1 tsp Black Vanilla

Warren Sturdivant @WarrentheChef

Philadelphia

This is a twist on Beatty's chocolate cake. I used cream cheese icing with homemade toffee that was supposed to be caramel. It gives nice crunch.

Warren Sturdivant @WarrentheChef

Philadelphia

This is a twist on Beatty's chocolate cake. I used cream cheese icing with homemade toffee that was supposed to be caramel. It gives nice crunch.

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Ingredients

1 hour 30 mins

16 servings

Batter
1 3/4 cupall-purpose flour
2 cupsugar
3/4 cupHershey's cocoa powder
2 tspbaking soda
1 tspbaking powder
1 tspkosher salt
1 cupbuttermilk - shaken
1/2 cupvegetable oil
2each extra large eggs- room temperature
1 tspblack vanilla extract
2 lbcream cheese at room temperature
1 cupFreshly brewed hot coffee
Frosting
1/2 cupHershey's cocoa powder
1/2 stickunsalted butter at room temperature
1 lbconfectioner's sugar
1 cuptoffee
1 tspBlack Vanilla

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Steps

1 hour 30 mins

1

Preheat oven to 350°F Fahrenheit.
2

Butter 2- 8 inch cake pans. Line pans with parchment or wax paper. Mix 1 tbsp of flour with 1 tbsp of cocoa powder and lightly dust the pans.
3

Put all dry ingredients in electric mixer bowl with whip attachment and sift on low speed till blended. Scrape bowl.
4

In separate bowl add all the wet ingredients and mix well. On low speed add the wet ingredients to the dry. Add the coffee until just blended.
5

Pour batter into prepared pans and bake for 35 - 40 mins or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool on wire rack.
6

Chocolate cream cheese icing
7

Place cream cheese and butter in mixing bowl with paddle attachment on low speed till blended. Slowly add confectioner's sugar and cocoa powder a little at a time. Increase speed and whip until fluffy.
8

Place one layer on a cake pedestal. Spread cream cheese mixture on top of cake. Dust with crystallized toffee. Top with the next layer. Spread frosting evenly. Dust with toffee crystals. *A coarse seive may be used for dusting.