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Beatty’s Chocolate Cake
RECIPE COURTESY OF INA GARTEN
Level: Intermediate
Total: 1 hr 35 min
Prep: 30 min
Inactive: 30 min
Cook: 35 min
Yield: 8 servings
Ingredients
Butter, for greasing the pans
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for pans
2 cups sugar
3/4 cups good cocoa powder
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1 cup buttermilk, shaken
1/2 cup vegetable oil
2 extra-large eggs, at room temperature
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 cup freshly brewed hot coffee
Chocolate Buttercream Frosting, recipe follows
Chocolate Frosting:
6 ounces good semisweet chocolate (recommended: Callebaut)
1/2 pound (2 sticks) unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 extra-large egg yolk, at room temperature
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 1/4 cups sifted confectioners’ sugar
1 tablespoon instant coffee powder
Directions
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Butter two 8-inch x 2-inch round cake pans. Line with parchment paper, then butter and flour the pans.
Sift the flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder, and salt into the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment and mix on low speed until combined. In another bowl, combine the buttermilk, oil, eggs, and vanilla. With the mixer on low speed, slowly add the wet ingredients to the dry. With mixer still on low, add the coffee and stir just to combine, scraping the bottom of the bowl with a rubber spatula. Pour the batter into the prepared pans and bake for 35 to 40 minutes, until a cake tester comes out clean. Cool in the pans for 30 minutes, then turn them out onto a cooling rack and cool completely.
Place 1 layer, flat side up, on a flat plate or cake pedestal. With a knife or offset spatula, spread the top with frosting. Place the second layer on top, rounded side up, and spread the frosting evenly on the top and sides of the cake.
Chocolate Frosting:
Chop the chocolate and place it in a heat-proof bowl set over a pan of simmering water. Stir until just melted and set aside until cooled to room temperature.
In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, beat the butter on medium-high speed until light yellow and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add the egg yolk and vanilla and continue beating for 3 minutes. Turn the mixer to low, gradually add the confectioners’ sugar, then beat at medium speed, scraping down the bowl as necessary, until smooth and creamy. Dissolve the coffee powder in 2 teaspoons of the hottest tap water. On low speed, add the chocolate and coffee to the butter mixture and mix until blended. Don’t whip! Spread immediately on the cooled cake.
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Can you make this in a Bundt cake pan? I’m trying to make it into a molten lava cake and serve with a ganache instead of buttercream!
Amazing cake
HOW MUCH POWDERED SUGAR for the frosting?? (Sorry I yelled.)
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Thank you Ina. This recipe is super delicious. I just made it fir my son’s birthday.
How much sugar do we add in the frosting
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Can you put the ingredients in the title.
Hey!! I do that too😊 use coffee in my chocolate cake, trust me guys its worth it….
is this recipe available somewhere in writing?
She didn’t mention how much sugar powder we need for the frosting?
I like this recipe but I add a cup of sour cream and use walnut oil instead of vegetable oil. For frosting I use dark chocolate instead of of semi sweet. I think it’s a bit better.
What did she add to the butter and vanilla?
I hate when cake videos never show the slicing of it at the end so we can see the inside lol
I made this cake today for the first time and it was amazing! Everyone loved it. I did not use espresso for the buttercream and instead used regular coffee grains and it turned out really well! I thought it would be very hard to make but it was pretty easy! I will be making this again!
Hi. Thanks alot for showing you amazing video's. Jost ask if it's possible to get written recipes so we can follow the structure and have perfect cake the way you did, thanks alot
Her husband is very successful and wealthy, and I happened to have seen their property in the Hamptons. They have several buildings, gorgeous gardens, it’s just amazing. Her story is quite interesting. They don’t have children and she got into cooking on her own. They have the kind of life you’d want after you kids have moved out. Sane, calm, fabulous food, great friends, beautiful house and grounds, everything. And she is so wonderful on television. I always feels so good and empowered when I watch her.
Is there a written recipe anywhere?
I wish I had friends that surprised me with cakes 😭
I seriously can’t stand the way she “measures” her ingredients.
Hello where’s the receipt?!
Where's the recipe?
This is the chocolate cake I want. Not covered in ganache, but actual chocolate buttercream.
1 3/4 cup flour
2 cups sugar
3/4 cup cocoa powder
1 tsp baking powder
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
Sift these together. Mix until combined.
1 cup buttermilk
1/2 cup vegetable oil
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
Mix then add to dry ingredients on low speed
Add 1 cup hot coffee
Line two 8 inch cake pans with parchment paper and add batter. Into the oven at 350 for 35 min
Melt 6 oz chocolate over simmering water
Two sticks of butter
Egg yolk
Tsp vanilla
Stir 1 tablespoon of instant coffee powder and 2 tsp hot water and add to butter mixture
Whip that
Add cooled chocolate
Last, ice and eat.
I made this cake for my best friend’s birthday a few weeks ago and i can confirm this is a great recipe. She told me it was gone in one day because she enjoyed it very much and so did her family. I followed the measurements exactly, but I will say this, however:
For me, the amount of buttercream frosting was only enough to be a crumb coat for the cake. Mine didn’t come out looking like hers did in the video sadly. I do suggest that if you are planning to crumb coat the cake, you double the recipe for the frosting. Also if you’re not planning to crumb coat, let the cakes cool COMPLETELY before you spread the frosting over it. If it’s warm, you might break off bits of the edges and they’ll show through the frosting. I absolutely loved the coffee flavor in it, though. It was so tasty. Lastly, be prepared for the amount of dirty dishes you’ll have to wash afterwards lol.
can i use instant coffee?
When making frosting – What did she add to the butter and vanilla mixture? does anybody know? Kindly advise the measurements of those ingredients. Thanks
Does anybody have the full recipe for the butter cream please? I see that she added some flour, not sure what it is!!
hi,will you tell me how much flour did you use?
Ingredients of butter ceeam frosting please
I'm in awe of how imperfect these measurements appear to be
Can i get these ingredients measurements in grams??
That raw is making me nervous
That frosting 😍
Hey does anyone know what would be the inch of using a square pan? Instead of a 8 inch round pan
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you didn't mention how much sugar to add to the buttercream :/
Looks delicious!!!
Now if ONLY I could eat chocolate….
I love Ina and her husband, they are so beautiful together
I made this cake the other day best damn chocolate cake I’ve ever had…..thanks for this video how wonderful