If you are looking for an amazing chocolate fudge cake recipe, this is the 3 layer cake you want to make. This fudge cake is moist and delicious and surprisingly easy to make. It looks amazing, tastes even better and everyone will be asking for the recipe.
Ingredients
Chocolate Ingredients:
4Cflour
1/2Ccocoa
4tspbaking powder
4tspbaking soda
2tspkosher salt
4Cwater
4Csugar
10ozdark chocolate, chopped
12tbspunsalted butter
4tbspcanola oil
2tsppure vanilla extract
4large eggs
2CChopped walnuts
Vanilla Frosting Ingredients:
1 1/2Cunsalted butter, softened
3Cpowdered sugar
1tsppure vanilla extract
4-6tbspheavy whipping cream
Chocolate Frosting ingredients:
1 1/2Cunsalted sweet cream butter, softened
1 - 8ozcream cheese, soften
1 1.2Heryhey special cocoa powder
1/4tspkosher salt
7Cpowder sugar
1/4Cheavy whipping cream
1large piping bag with star tip
Chocolate walnut mix ingredients
2Cchopped walnuts
1 ½Cmini chocolate chips
Chocolate Ganache Ingredients:
1Csemi sweet chocolate chips
1/2Cheavy whipping cream
1large squeeze bottle
Instructions
Chocolate Directions:
Preheat your oven to 350 and using pam baking spray, spray 3 9inch round cake pans
Using a medium whisk together the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, and salt
Using a medium saucepan over medium to high heat, combine the water and sugar.
Bring to a boil and stir until the sugar is dissolved. About 1 minute
Remove from heat and whisk in the chocolate and butter until melted
Whisk in the canola oil and vanilla extract
Quicky whisk in the eggs to avoid them cooking into the chocolate mixture.
Gradually whisk in the dry ingredients until combined
Fold in the chopped walnuts
Divide the batter between the three round cake pans
Bake cakes for 30-35 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean
Vanilla Frosting Directions:
Using a standing mixer, beat together all ingredients until combined and smooth
Building the cake directions:
Remove the cakes from the pans
Cut the domes off the tops of the cakes
Place the first cake layer down onto a cake board
Scoop 1 C of the vanilla frosting onto the top of the cake layer and smooth evenly
Place the second cake layer on top
Scoop remaining vanilla frosting on top of the second layer and smooth evenly
Place the third cake layer on top of the frosting
Chocolate Frosting Directions:
Using the standing mixer again, beat the cream cheese and butter until combined and smooth
Gradually mix in the cocoa powder, vanilla and salt
Very slowly, beat in the powder sugar until combined
Whisk in the heavy whipping cream until the ice cream is smooth and fluffy
Chocolate walnut mix Directions
Combine into a bowl and mix together
Decorating the cake
Scoop 1 C chocolate frosting into the large piping bag and set aside
Using the remaining chocolate frosting, frost the entire cake
Coat the bottom of the cake with the chopped walnut and chocolate chip mix
Chocolate Ganache Directions:
Using a small pot, heat up the heavy whipping cream until steaming
While heavy whipping cream is heating up, place chocolate chips into a heat-proof bowl
Once the heavy whipping cream is heated, pour over the chocolate chips
Allow to sit for 1 minute before whisking until smooth
Pour ganache into the squeeze bottle
Pipe dollops of ganache over the edge of the cake and cover the top, spreading evenly
Pipe dollops of frosting on top
Sprinkle with some left over walnut and chocolate chips.