Chocolate Walnut Cake with Rich Chocolate Butter-Cream Icing This is my favorite chocolate buttercream recipe. It's incredibly rich, creamy, silky, smooth, and easy to work with for decorating cakes and cupcakes! Even though it's a wonderfully creamy chocolate buttercream, it holds its shape beautifully- just as Swiss meringue buttercream does.

Ingredients of Chocolate Walnut Cake with Rich Chocolate Butter-Cream Icing

  1. You need 1 of (CAKE).
  2. You need 200 grams of Unsalted butter.
  3. You need 150 grams of Dark chocolate, chopped.
  4. You need 1 1/2 cup of Self raising flour.
  5. You need 3/4 cup of Caster sugar.
  6. It's 2 of Eggs, lightly beaten.
  7. Prepare 3/4 cup of Milk.
  8. You need 1/2 cup of Chopped walnuts.
  9. It's 1 of (ICING).
  10. You need 60 grams of Unsalted butter.
  11. Prepare 1/3 cup of Icing sugar.
  12. You need 60 grams of Dark chocolate.
  13. You need 1 tsp of Vanilla essence.

Chocolate Walnut Cake with Rich Chocolate Butter-Cream Icing instructions

  1. Pre-heat oven to 180*C..
  2. Brush a 20 x 5cm round cake tin with butter and line with grease paper..
  3. Place butter and chocolate (for cake) in a stainless mixing bowl and melt over a pot with boiling water..
  4. Stir until combined and remove from heat..
  5. Add flour, eggs, sugar & milk to mixture- whisk until smooth before folding in nuts..
  6. Pour mixture into prepared tin, smooth the surface and place into oven for 55 minutes (or until it passes the skewer test) then remove from oven..
  7. Allow cake 5 minutes in cake tin before turning out onto a wire rack to cool. Now you can work on your rich chocolate icing..
  8. (ICING) Place chocolate, butter & icing into a stainless steal mixing bowl and melt over a pot with boiling water. Remove from heat..
  9. Add icing sugar and whisk with hand mixer until smooth. Allow to cool. If you've timed it right, icing will harden just enough to spread over cooked cake..
  10. Sprinkle some chopped walnuts and choc chips over the top and enjoy with a nice hot coffee!.

Bring the heavy cream to a full boil. Pour the cream over the chocolate and whisk it until smooth then set it aside. Pour ganache over the top of the cake and, with a. Strong black coffee and cocoa powder give this buttercream frosting a nice richness perfect for chocolate cake. Rich icing for Grandpop's chocolate cake.

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