🍫 Raspberry Chocolate Layer Cake 🍇

@AniphaeS

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Sweet Desserts and Baking

 · 29 Apr 2024

🍫 Raspberry Chocolate Layer Cake 🍇

Indulge in the divine combination of rich chocolate and tangy raspberries with our Raspberry Chocolate Layer Cake. This cake features three layers of moist chocolate cake, filled with luscious raspberry filling and frosted with creamy chocolate buttercream. Topped with silky chocolate ganache and fresh raspberries, it's a dessert that's as stunning as it is delicious! 🍰

Ingredients:

Raspberry Filling:
1/4 cup sugar
1 tbsp cornstarch
2 tsp water
2 cups raspberries
Chocolate Cake:
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
2 cups sugar
3/4 cup natural unsweetened cocoa
2 1/4 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1 cup milk
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
2 large eggs
1 cup hot water
Chocolate Frosting:
1 1/2 cups unsalted butter, room temperature
12 oz semi-sweet chocolate chips, melted
5 tbsp Hershey’s dark cocoa powder
6 cups powdered sugar
1/2 tsp salt
10-12 tbsp heavy whipping cream
Chocolate Ganache:
9 oz semi-sweet chocolate chips
3/4 cup heavy whipping cream
Directions:

Prepare Raspberry Filling: Combine sugar, cornstarch, and water in a saucepan. Add raspberries and cook until thickened. Chill.
Bake Cakes: Mix dry and wet ingredients separately, then combine with hot water. Bake in prepped pans at 350°F for 22-25 minutes.
Make Frosting: Whip butter, blend in melted chocolate and cocoa, then gradually add sugar and cream.
Assemble Cake: Level cakes, layer with ganache and raspberry filling. Frost with chocolate frosting.
Garnish: Drizzle ganache over the cake and decorate with raspberries.

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