Chocolate Cake With Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting
Whip up this soft, ultra dreamy Chocolate Cake With Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting. This no machine cake comes together in minutes.
Ingredients
- ½ cup/125ml avocado oil
- ½ cup/125g butter
- ½ cup/125ml cocoa powder
- 1 cup/250ml water
- 200 g / 1 cup light brown sugar
- 300 g / 2 and ½ cup flour
- 1 teaspoon / 5ml baking soda bicarbonate of soda in South Africa
- ¼ teaspoon baking powder
- Pinch salt
- 125 ml Greek yogurt
- 3 eggs
- 1 tsp/ 5ml vanilla
For the frosting
- 8 oz 225 g cream cheese, softened
- 4 tablespoon 55 g unsalted butter, softened (about ½ stick)
- 3 cups 300g powdered sugar, sifted
- ½ cup 45 g unsweetened cocoa powder, sifted
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Make the brown butter in a saucepan. Remove from the stove and cool.
- To the same saucepan, add the water, avocado oil and cocoa powder. Heat together until the water is about to simmer and turn it off.
- In a medium sized mixing bowl, combine the following: Light brown sugar, flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt.
- In another mixing bowl, whisk together the Greek yogurt, eggs and vanilla. Add the butter mixture (it must be cool) to the yogurt mixture and whisk everything together.
- Gently fold in the flour mixture and pour the cake into either 2 x springform pans or one lined baking tray. Bake for 27 minutes at 180C/365F.6.
- To make the frosting, whip up the butter and cream cheese first at room temperature. Sieve in the cocoa powder and powdered sugar and whip together until light. Frost the cake once it’s ready.
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