American Chocolate Layer Cake

Name: American Chocolate Layer Cake
Prep time: 35 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 1 h
Yield: Serves 12–16
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 6 eggs; 1 teaspoon baking powder; 150 g (5 oz) plain flour, plus a little extra; 125 g (4 oz) unsalted butter, plus extra for greasing; 40 g (1½ oz) cocoa powder; a good pinch of salt; 250 ml (8 fl oz) whipping cream; 40 g (1½ oz) caster sugar; 225 g (7 oz) vanilla caster sugar; 250 g (8 oz) plain chocolate, chopped; 3 eggs separated; 75 g (3 oz) unsalted butter

Preparation info

Serves
12–16

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
1 hr

Appears in

American Baking

By Patricia Lousada

Published 1986

About

An American chocolate layer cake should really have white cake layers which are frosted with scrumptious rich chocolate. This super version has the great icing but it also indulges in chocolate layers. It is a winner and certain to delight everyone. See for a note on vanilla sugar.

Ingredients

For the cake

125 g (4 oz) unsalted butter, plus extra for greasing
150 g (

Americas
United States
Dessert
Cake
Vegetarian
Baking

Method

Preheat the oven. Line three buttered and floured 20 cm (8-inch) sandwich tins with baking parchment. Melt the butter over a very low heat, skim off some of the surface froth and discard it. Sift the flour