Aunt Lou's Chocolate Cake Recipe Card
Here is a 100 year old family recipe for chocolate cake with a tasty coffee cream glaze. This make a rich chocolate cake the old fashioned way.
Ingredients
- 1 cup sugar
- ½ cup butter
- 1 egg
- 2 ounces baking chocolate semi-sweet, melted
- 2 cups flour
- ½ tsp. salt
- ¾ tsp. baking soda
- 1 tsp. baking powder
- 1 cup buttermilk
Coffee cream glaze:
- 4 Tbsp. butter
- 2 cups confectioners sugar sifted
- ½ oz. chocolate melted, semi-sweet
- 2 Tbsp. heavy cream
- 2 Tbsp. liquid coffee
Instructions
- Preheat the oven at 350F.
- In a stand mixer cream together the sugar, and ½ cup of butter at room temperature until light and fluffy then add the egg.
- Add 2 oz. of melted chocolate.
- Sift together flour, salt, baking soda and baking powder and add this to the batter alternating with the buttermilk.
- Add to your prepared baking pan.You can use a mini bundt pan coated lightly with butter and cocoa powder, or a full size bundt pan.
- Bake for 20-25 minutes, or until a cake tester comes out clean.
- To make the glaze: In a stand up mixer cream butter at room temperature with the confectioners sugar until well combined. Add in heavy cream and the melted chocolate.
- Add in liquid coffee or just enough to have it achieve glaze consistency.
- Drizzle over cake.
Nutrition
Calories: 434kcalCarbohydrates: 88gProtein: 7gFat: 7gSaturated Fat: 4gCholesterol: 28mgSodium: 291mgPotassium: 299mgFiber: 3gSugar: 57gVitamin A: 135IUCalcium: 82mgIron: 3.3mg
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