Texas Trash Buttermilk Chocolate Cake Recipe with Pecans

Looking for the best buttermilk chocolate cake recipe? This is the best Texas Trash Buttermilk Cake recipe ever. Delicious and easy to make, you will want to make this recipe.

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What is Texas Trash Buttermilk Chocolate Cake

If you love dessert as much as I do, you probably heard of Texas Trash Pie. This Chocolate Pecan cake is modeled after the pie recipe. It is amazing cake is a rich buttermilk chocolate cake that is topped with chocolate ganache and pecans. This is a moist chocolate cake recipe that is so good, you will reach for a second piece.

What to Serve with this Moist Chocolate Cake Recipe

There doesn’t need to be a specific time to eat cake. Just because it is Wednesday is a good enough reason around here. However, I do try to make sure that I serve a good dinner before we eat the cake. In that case, here are a few of my favorite dinner ideas that you can make when you make this moist chocolate cake recipe.

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How to Store Buttermilk Cake

When you make this cake, you will want to make sure you store it properly so it does not spoil too soon. When storing the cake, be sure to wrap it well with plastic or store it under a cake lid. This will protect it from the air, which will make the cake taste stale. While storing the cake in the refrigerator will keep the cake from spoiling sooner, the cake will taste dried out. Store the cake on the counter, wrapped well, for up to three days.

The Secret to a Moist Chocolate Cake Recipe

The secret to making a moist chocolate cake that has a rich flavor is coffee. The coffee brings out the flavor in this chocolate cake without ever tasting like coffee. When adding coffee to chocolate cake, let the coffee cool before adding it to the batter.

Can Chocolate Coffee Cake be Frozen

If you have more chocolate coffee cake than can be eaten before it goes bad, consider freezing the cake. When freezing this cake, cut it into individual pieces and then freeze the cake. Once the cake is frozen, put the cake in freezer bags or wrap well in plastic. You want to freeze the cake before adding it to the bag or wrapping because the chocolate ganache will get stuck to the plastic. When you are ready to thaw the cake, remove the wrapping or the bag first, and then thaw. You don’t want to lose any of the delicious ganache that covers this cake.

How to Make Ganache Frosting

Making ganache might sound complicated but it is extremely easy. Simple heat together a few ingredients in a pot, you can have a rich chocolate ganache in minutes. This ganache pours beautifully over the trash cake and creates the most amazing chocolate frosting. Once the ganache has been added to the cake, you will add the chopped pecan.

Ingredients in Texas Trash Buttermilk Chocolate Cake Recipe with Pecans

• flour
• sugar
• baking soda
• kosher salt
• unsalted sweet cream butter
• Hershey cocoa powder
• brewed coffee
• buttermilk
• eggs
• pure vanilla extract
• pecans
• whole milk
• powder sugar

Other Things You Will Need

• 1 sifter
• 13×9 baking dish

How to Make Texas Trash Buttermilk Chocolate Cake

Preheat oven to 350 degrees and spay the 13×9 baking dish with pam baking spray and place a sheet of parchment paper into the dish

Using a large mixing bowl and a sifter, sift together the flour, sugar, baking soda and salt. Set aside

Using a medium pot over medium heat, combine the butter, cocoa and coffee, bringing it to a low boil. Whisk until combined and smooth

Gradually pour the mixture over the flour ingredients and and whisk until combined

Using a small bowl, whisk together the eggs, buttermilk and vanilla until combined

Gradually whisk the buttermilk mixture into the dry ingredients and whisk until combined

Pour batter into the baking dish and bake for 23-25 minutes or until the center bounces back slightly when touched

Topping directions:

Using a medium sauce pan over medium heat, combine the butter, cocoa milk, and salt, whisking until combined

Once butter has melted, gradually whisk in the powdered sugar until combined and smooth

Mix in 2/3 C of the pecans

Pour the icing over the top of the cake

Sprinkle remaining pecans onto the top of the cake and allow the icing to harden slightly

Enjoy!

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Texas Trash Cake

Prep Time: 25 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 25 minutes minutes

Total Time: 50 minutes minutes

Servings: 1 - 13x9 cake

Looking for the best buttermilk chocolate cake recipe? This is the best Texas Trash Buttermilk Cake recipe ever. Delicious and easy to make, you will want to make this recipe.

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Ingredients 

• 2 C flour
• 1 3/4 C sugar
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp kosher salt
• 1 C unsalted sweet cream butter, cut into tablespoon sized cubes
• 1/3 C Hershey cocoa powder
• 1 C brewed coffee, cooled to room temperature
• 1/2 C buttermilk
• 2 large eggs
• 1 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
• 1 sifter
• 13 x9 baking dish

Topping ingredients:

• 1 1/2 C Chopped pecans
• 3/4 C unsalted sweet cream butter
• 1/3 C Hershey cocoa powder
• 1/3 C whole milk
• 1/4 tsp kosher salt
• 3 C powder sugar
• 1 tsp pure vanilla extract

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Instructions

Cake Directions:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees and spay the 13x9 baking dish with pam baking spray and place a sheet of parchment paper into the dish
• Using a large mixing bowl and a sifter, sift together the flour, sugar, baking soda and salt. Set aside
• Using a medium pot over medium heat, combine the butter, cocoa and coffee, bringing it to a low boil. Whisk until combined and smooth
• Gradually pour the mixture over the flour ingredients and and whisk until combined
• Using a small bowl, whisk together the eggs, buttermilk and vanilla until combined
• Gradually whisk the buttermilk mixture into the dry ingredients and whisk until combined
• Pour batter into the baking dish and bake for 23-25 minutes or until the center bounces back slightly when touched

Topping directions:

• Using a medium sauce pan over medium heat, combine the butter, cocoa milk, and salt, whisking until combined
• Once butter has melted, gradually whisk in the powdered sugar until combined and smooth
• Mix in 2/3 C of the pecans
• Pour the icing over the top of the cake
• Sprinkle remaining pecans onto the top of the cake and allow the icing to harden slightly
• Enjoy!

Notes

Makes 1 - 13x9 cake

Author: Laura

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