Recipe Description
Jennifer was baking dobos torte, so I stopped by. My job wasn´t to help or to coach. It was to egg on.
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Recipe Ingredient
- 1½ cups unsalted butter, melted, plus more for pans
- 3½ cups flour, plus more for pans
- 4 tsp baking powder
- 1½ tsp fine salt
- 2¼ cups sugar
- 2 cups milk
- 1 tbsp vanilla extract
- 6 eggs
- 3½ cups chocolate frosting, recipe follows
Instructions
- Butter and flour four 23cm cake pans.
- In a large bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder and salt. In another bowl, whisk together butter, sugar, milk, vanilla and eggs. Pour wet ingredients over dry, whisking briefly. Let rest, 15 minutes. Whisk smooth.
- Spread 1 cup batter into each prepared pan (saving the rest for the second round). Bake at 180°C until cakes pull away from the sides of the pans, about 15 minutes. Cool a few minutes. Turn out and cool completely.
- Repeat: Wash, dry, butter and flour pans again. Bake four more layers.
- Spread one cooled cake layer with 1/3 cup frosting. Continue stacking and frosting all layers (leave top bare). Chill until set, about 30 minutes. Frost top and sides. Chill. Enjoy.
- Chocolate frosting: Whisk over medium heat until smooth and shiny: 1 cup heavy cream, 6 tbsp unsalted butter (cut up), 140g semisweet chocolate (chopped), 60g unsweetened chocolate (chopped), 1/3 cup sugar, 1 tsp espresso powder dissolved in 1 tbsp brewed coffee. Pull off heat. Stir in 1 tsp vanilla extract. Stir over an ice bath to cool. Chill until thick, about 30 minutes. Beat in a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment until fluffy, about 2 minutes. Makes about 3½ cups.
- Cake layers adapted from Saveur.
