1880 Chocolate Spice Cake With Icing Food

CHOCOLATE SPICE CAKE

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream butter and brown sugar until well blended. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in applesauce and 1/2 cup coffee. Combine the flour, 1/4 cup baking cocoa, cinnamon, baking soda, allspice, salt and cloves; gradually beat into creamed mixture until blended. Fold in raisins and walnuts., Pour into a 10-in. fluted tube pan coated with cooking spray. Bake at 350° for 40-45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack to cool completely., In a small bowl, combine the confectioners' sugar and remaining baking cocoa and coffee; drizzle over cake.

CHOCOLATE SPICE CAKE WITH CARAMEL ICING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. Line bottoms of 2 well-greased 9-in. round baking pans with parchment; grease paper. In a microwave, melt chocolate; stir until smooth. Cool slightly., In a large bowl, cream butter and sugars until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in chocolate. In another bowl, whisk flour, baking powder, cinnamon, salt, allspice and cloves; add to creamed mixture alternately with milk, beating well after each addition., Transfer batter to prepared pans. Bake 30-35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pans 10 minutes before removing to wire racks; remove paper. Cool completely., In a small saucepan, combine brown sugar, cream and butter. Bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring occasionally. Cook and stir 3 minutes. Remove from heat; gradually beat in confectioners' sugar and vanilla., Place one cake layer on a serving plate; pour half of the warm icing over the cake. Top with remaining cake layer. Pour remaining icing over top of cake. If desired, top with caramel popcorn.

1880 CHOCOLATE SPICE CAKE (WITH ICING)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F
• Dissolve baking soda in the buttermilk and set aside.
• Cream sugar, butter, and buttermilk together.
• Sift dry ingredients together.
• Add alternately with buttermilk, beating well after each addition.
• Pour into greased and floured 9x13" pan.
• Bake 25-30 minutes. Spread icing over hot cake.
• For icing; Mix 5 T. butter, 7 T. brown sugar, 5 T. cream, and 1/2 cup cocoa together.
• Spread over hot cake and return to oven and broil until icing bubbles and is light brown on cake.

ASIAN FIVE-SPICE CHOCOLATE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F Butter a 10- by 2-inch round cake pan. Line bottom with a round of parchment paper and butter the paper (one reviewer said pan was hard to find so used a 9x9 square with good results -do not use springform pan!).
• Put chocolates in a large shallow bowl. Bring water, 1/2 cup sugar, and spice to a boil, stirring until sugar is dissolved, then pour through a fine sieve set over chocolates. Stir until smooth, then stir in butter until smooth.
• Beat eggs with remaining 3/4 cup sugar until increased in volume and pale and beaters leave a distinct trail (4 to 5 minutes in a standing mixer or 15 to 20 with a hand-held).
• Stir 1/4 of eggs into chocolate to lighten and fold in remainder gently but thoroughly (fold 1 to 2 minutes).
• Pour batter into pan and smooth top. Put pan in a water bath and bake in middle of oven 40 to 45 minutes, or until a tester inserted in center comes out with moist crumbs adhering.
• While cake is in oven, prepare Ginger Cream:.
• Beat cream to soft peaks and fold in crystallized ginger. Refrigerate until ready to use.
• When cake is done, remove from water bath and cool 2 hours in pan on a rack.
• Unmold cake by running a thin knife around edge, then heating pan 5 to 10 seconds on burner set at moderately low. Invert cake plate over pan and flip cake onto plate. (If cake sticks, tap bottom of pan with a knife handle. If that doesn't work, heat pan again.) Peel off paper.
• Serve cake in thin slices garnished with Ginger Cream.
• Cooks' note: You can make cake 2 days ahead and chill, covered. Bring to room temperature before serving.

CHOCOLATE SPICE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Butter and flour a six-cup Bundt pan, and set aside. Place the grated ginger, water, cranberries, and raisins in a small saucepan, and bring to a boil. Reduce to a simmer, and cook until the liquid has evaporated, about 5 minutes. Set aside to cool.
• In a medium bowl, sift together the flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and ground ginger. Place the butter and sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the whisk attachment; beat on medium-high speed until light and fluffy, 2 to 3 minutes. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Scrape down the sides of the bowl as needed. Stir in the vanilla. Add the flour mixture and sour cream in alternate small batches, starting and ending with the flour mixture; beat just until combined. Fold in dried fruit mixture.
• Pour the batter into the prepared pan, and bake for 40 to 50 minutes, or until a cake tester inserted into center comes out clean. Remove from the oven, transfer to a wire rack, and let cake cool in the pan for 30 minutes. Invert the cake onto a wire rack to cool completely.
• Place cake on a cake plate or serving platter, and tuck pieces of waxed paper under the edges of the cake to keep the plate clean. Apply a thick coating of chocolate fudge frosting to cake, using a small offset or rubber spatula. Remove waxed paper before serving.

CHOCOLATE SPICE LAYER CAKE WITH CARAMEL ICING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. Line bottoms of two well-greased 9-in. round baking pans with parchment paper; grease paper. In a microwave, melt chocolate; stir until smooth. Cool slightly., In a large bowl, cream butter and sugars until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in chocolate. In another bowl, whisk flour, baking powder, spicy chocolate cinnamon sugar, salt, allspice and cloves; add to creamed mixture alternately with milk, beating well after each addition., Transfer batter to prepared pans. Bake 30-35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pans 10 minutes before removing to wire racks; remove paper. Cool completely., In a small saucepan, combine brown sugar, cream and butter. Bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring occasionally. Cook and stir 3 minutes. Remove from heat; gradually beat in confectioners' sugar and vanilla., Place one cake layer on a serving plate; pour half of the warm icing over the cake. Top with remaining cake layer. Pour remaining icing over top of cake. If desired, top with caramel popcorn.

SOUR CREAM SPICE CAKE W/ SEAFOAM ICING

Steps:

• Set oven to 375 degrees.
• Grease and flour 2 (8-inch) layer cake pans.
• In a bowl, cream butter and sugar until fluffy.
• Add in eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• Sift dry ingredients; add alternately with sour cream into creamed mixture.
• Turn batter into prepared baking pans.
• Bake 30-35 minutes, or until cake tests done.
• Cool.
• FOAMY ICING: Combine sugar, egg white and water in top of double boiler; stir well.
• Place over boiling water.
• With an electric hand mixer, beat constantly until mixture holds to a point.
• Remove from heat.
• Add in vanilla, and beat 1 minute longer.
• Spread over cooled cake.
• Note: if desired, this cake can be baked in a 13" x 9" baking pan.

CHOCOLATE SPICE CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees.
• Grease and flour a bundt pan.
• Cream butter and sugar.
• Add egg yolks one at a time til blended.
• Stir in melted chocolate, mashed potatoes, lemon rind, and vanilla.
• Sift flour, baking powder, cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg together.
• Ad flour mixture to rest of batter alternating with milk.
• Fold in pecans.
• Beat egg whites and carefully fold them in.
• Bake 45-50 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
• Cool 15 minutes in pan then turn out to cool completely.

APPLE CAKE WITH ICING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350F and lightly grease a 9 x 13-inch oblong pan.
• Sift dry ingredients together into a large bowl.
• Add remaining cake ingredients and mix well.
• Pour into prepared pan and bake for 45 minutes or until cake tester comes out clean when inserted in center of cake.
• Cook icing ingredients in small saucepan 2 1/2 minutes and pour over warm cake.

VEGAN BURNT SUGAR CAKE WITH ICING

Steps:

• CAKE:.
• Cream the margarine and sugar.
• Add the egg replacer, water, vanilla and burnt sugar syrup.
• Mix together then add flour and baking powder.
• Mix well.
• Pour batter into a greased and floured 9x13" pan or use 2-9" round pans.
• Bake at 350'F for 35 minutes.
• The cake is done when you touch the center and it springs back up.
• Cool the cake.
• ICING:.
• Combine the Icing ingredients together in a sauce pan and cook until it forms a hard ball.
• Ice the cake while it's still warm and it will harden on the cake.
• Enjoy.

CHOCOLATE CAKE WITH ICING

Steps:

• Cake:.
• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Combine all dry ingredients in mixer bowl & mix well. Add eggs, milk, oil & vanilla & mix on low speed just until combined then slowly add hot water while mixing & stop when just combined. Pour batter evenly into greased & floured 9" cake pan & bake for around 30 to 35 minutes until toothpick comes out clean. Let cool for 15 minutes then turn out onto cooling rack to cool completely.
• Icing:.
• Combine cream cheese, butter, milk, vanilla & mix on medium speed until smooth. Add sugar a third of a cup at a time & continue to mix on medium speed until combined. Add cocoa & mix until combined & smooth.
• Cut the cake in half when cool & spread half the icing on the bottom cake in a thin layer & the other half on top of the cake also in a thin layer or don't cut the cake & put all the icing on top.