Chocolate Espresso Cake
Serves 4 | with Whipped Brown Sugar-Cream Cheese Frosting
Java lovers, this one's for you! This chocolate espresso cake is packed with coffee flavour, which pairs beautifully with soft whipped brown sugar-cream cheese frosting.
Ingredients: Vanilla cake mix (sugar, enriched wheat flour, modified corn starch, milk ingredients, salt, wheat starch, canola oil, sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium bicarbonate, cellulose gum, monocalcium phosphate) (milk, wheat) • Grade A egg • Brown sugar (cane sugar, molasses) • Cocoa powder • Cream cheese (milk ingredients, modified milk ingredients, salt, bacterial culture, lactic acid, guar gum, carob bean gum, xanthan gum, potassium sorbate) (milk) • Instant coffee.
The quantities provided above are averages only.
Produced in a facility that processes eggs, milk, fish, peanuts, sesame, shellfish, soy, tree nuts, and wheat.
Ingredients
½ cup
Cocoa Powder
(May contain traces of: Soy, Fish, Sesame, Tree nuts, Peanuts, Mustard, Milk, Egg, Wheat, Crustaceans, Sulphites)
2 unit
Egg
(Contains: Egg)
2 tbsp
Espresso Powder
½ cup
Brown Sugar
(May contain traces of: Soy, Fish, Sesame, Tree nuts, Peanuts, Mustard, Milk, Egg, Wheat, Crustaceans, Sulphites)
1 unit
Cream Cheese
(Contains: Milk)
400 g
Vanilla Baking Mix
(Contains: Milk, Wheat May contain traces of: Soy, Fish, Sesame, Tree nuts, Peanuts, Mustard, Egg, Crustaceans, Sulphites, Gluten)
Not included in your delivery
6 tbsp
Butter*
(Contains: Milk)
½ cup
Oil*
2 tbsp
Milk*
(Contains: Milk)
0.13 tsp
Salt*
Nutrition Values
Utensils
Cooking Steps
- In a kettle or pot, place 1 cup water and bring to a boil.
- Meanwhile, to a small bowl, add 3 espresso powder packets. When water is boiling, pour over espressocoff powder, then stir to combine.
- Grease the base and sides of an 8x8-inch baking dish, then line the base and sides with parchment paper, leaving a 2-inch overhang. (TIP: The overhang will make it easy for you to remove the cake from the pan later.)
- To a large bowl, add eggs, 1/2 cup oil and espresso mixture, then whisk to combine. Add Vanilla Baking Mix and cocoa powder, then whisk until batter is smooth. Transfer cake batter to prepared baking dish.
- Bake for 22-25 min in the middle of the oven, until a toothpick inserted into the centre of the cake comes out mostly clean. Transfer baking dish to a wire rack to cool.
- Meanwhile, in a small, microwave-safe bowl, place 2 tbsp milk and remaining packet of coffee powder and microwave 15-20 sec, until espresso powder is dissolved. Set aside to cool.
- In another large bowl, cream together softened butter, brown sugar and a pinch of salt with an electric hand mixer 1-2 min, until lightened. Slowly beat in cream cheese and milk mixture 2-3 min, until smooth.
- Spread whipped brown sugar-cream cheese frosting over cooled cake, then use the back of a large spoon to create a swooping pattern across the cake.
- Cut cake into desired number of slices and serve.
