My, how a calendar month flies by! That's correct ... it's Crazy Cooking Challenge time! This month's challenge - CHOCOLATE CAKE. Pretty appropriate for the calendar week earlier Valentine's Day, wouldn't you lot say?
The rules - Must endure cake. Must endure chocolate. No cupcakes. No mini cakes. Recipe must endure institute inwards blogland. Anything else goes. My, oh, my ... my caput was spinning amongst all the options! But, amongst a brand-spankin'-new bundt pan I got for Christmas, I imposed the dominion upon myself that my cake had to endure a bundt cake. This month's challenge served upwards the perfect chance for me to plough over my novel bundt its initiatory run.
Off chocolate cake a-searchin' I went. I narrowed it downward to 3 ... Chocolate Guinness Stout Cake, Red Wine Chocolate Cake, in addition to Root Beer Cake ... in addition to had a really tough fourth dimension choosing my terminal contender. I thence wanted to construct all three! The selection came downward to what I planned to do amongst the cake itself. See, I planned to
So, this Root Beer Cake I institute at One Apron became my choice. I decided to "rename" it Chocolate Root Beer Float Cake because of the agency the light-colored rootage beer glaze on move yesteryear makes me intend of the vanilla-ice-cream-foam on the move yesteryear of an actual rootage beer float. Pretty, isn't it?
The rootage beer flavour inwards this cake is definitely "there," but it's non overpowering. It's a dainty residuum of the chocolate in addition to rootage beer tastes, that nevertheless allows both to come upwards through. That beingness said, if you're really non a fan of rootage beer, this cake is likely non for you.
Begin your cake batter yesteryear melting unopen to semi-sweet chocolate in addition to butter together amongst saccharide in addition to rootage beer. Mmmmmmm ... sounds expert already.
Let this cool inwards a mixing bowl ...
... in addition to and then add together your dry out ingredients.
Bake it upwards inwards a bundt pan. Once it's out of the oven, at ane time poke holes inwards the cake ...
... in addition to pour on unopen to rootage beer.
Take a deep breath, tell a niggling prayer that your cake won't stick inwards the pan, in addition to and then plough the cake out ...
Whew!!!! Success.
Cool the cake completely in addition to and then drizzle amongst rootage beer glaze.
Just await at those rootbeer glaze pools that shape every bit it trickles downward the cake. Yum.
And at that topographic point you lot convey it. Gorgeous in addition to tasty Chocolate Root Beer Float Cake to
Chocolate Root Beer Float Cake
Source: Adapted from One Apron, every bit adapted from Food Network Magazine
(Printable recipe)
Ingredients
Cake:
1 stick unsalted butter
2 c. all-purpose flour
2 1/4 c. rootage beer, divided (total, this recipe uses simply shy of 2 12 oz. bottles or cans of rootage beer)
1 c. cocoa powder
2 oz. bittersweet or semi-sweet chocolate, chopped
1 c. granulated sugar
1/2 c. nighttime dark-brown sugar
1 1/4 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. Earth allspice
1 tsp. salt
3 eggs, beaten
Glaze:
2 1/2 c. confectioner's sugar
1/4 c. rootage beer
1 tsp. vanilla extract
pinch of salt
1 to 2 T. warm water, if needed
Directions
1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Butter in addition to flour (or spray generously amongst cooking spray) a 12-cup bundt pan or 2 loaf pans. Tap out whatsoever excess flour.
2. Heat 2 cups of rootage beer, cocoa powder, chopped chocolate, in addition to the butter inwards a large saucepan over medium oestrus until the butter melts. Add the granulated in addition to dark-brown sugars; whisk until dissolved. Remove from oestrus in addition to permit cool.
3. Combine flour, baking soda, in addition to the 1 teaspoon salt. Whisk the beaten eggs into the cooled rootage beer mixture, in addition to then gently flexure inwards the dry out ingredients. The batter volition endure slightly lumpy.
4. Pour batter into the prepared pan(s). Bake until a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean, nearly 55 minutes to ane sixty minutes (mine took fifty minutes).
5. When cake kickoff comes out of the oven, gently poke the cake all over amongst a skewer or chopstick. Pour 1/4 loving cup rootage beer over the cake.
6. Let cake cool inwards the pan for twenty minutes, in addition to then invert the cake onto a serving plate in addition to permit cool completely.
7. Once cake is cooled, construct the glaze. Whisk together the rootage beer, vanilla, confectioner's sugar, in addition to pinch of salt. Check consistency of glaze, in addition to add together warm water, a real pocket-sized total at a time, if needed to construct a consistency for drizzling. Drizzle over cake.
Enjoy!
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