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- From: nancy-dooley@uiowa.edu (Nancy Dooley)
- Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes
- Subject: Velvet Underground Cake
- Date: 8 Oct 1994 22:41:17 -0400
- Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
- Message-ID: <nancy-dooley.42.0007A7BE@uiowa.edu>
-
- Here's a recipe from "Rosie's All-Butter Fresh Cream Sugar-Packed No
- Holds Barred Baking Book" which my family has enjoyed:
-
- Velvet Underground Cake
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- 4 oz. unsweetened chocolate
- 2 C. sugar
- 1 1/2 C. sifted all-purpose flour
- 3/4 tsp. baking soda
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1 C. hot strong brewed coffee or 5 tsp. instant coffee powder
- dissolved in 1 C. hot water
- 1/2 C. sour cream, at room temperature
- 1/2 C. vegetable oil
- 2 large eggs, lightly beaten, room temperature
-
- Preheat oven to 345. Lightly grease two 8-in. layer cake pans with oil or
- butter, or line them with parchment circles. Melt chocolate in top of double
- boiler placed over simmering water, then turn off the heat. Sift sugar,
- flour, baking soda and salt together into a large mixing bowl. In a separate
- bowl, blend the hot coffee, sour cream, and vegetable oil with whisk.
-
- With the mixer on low speed, add the coffee mixture in a stream to the dry
- ingredients and mix until blended, about 35 seconds. Stop mixer to scrape the
- bowl several times with spatula. Add eggs one at a time and mix on medium-low
- speed after each addition until smooth, about 15 seconds. Scrape bowl each
- time. Add chocolate and mix until batter is uniform in color, about 10
- seconds.
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- Divide batter evenly between pans and place on center rack in oven. Bake
- until cake springs back to touch and tester comes out dry (do not wait for
- crust to form), 35 to 38 minutes. Cool layers in the pans on a rack.
-
- Fudge Filling
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- 2 oz. unsweetened chocolate
- 2 T. unsalted butter
- 5 T. plus 1 1/2 tsp. sugar
- 6 T. hot water
- 1/2 tsp. vanilla
-
- Place all ingredients except vanilla in top of double boiler over simmering
- water and cook uncovered, stirring occasionally, until the chocolate is melted
- and sugar dissolved, about 30 minutes. Mixture will be smooth and velvety.
- Pour fudge into small bowl, stir in vanilla and refrigerate until the mixture
- is thick and of spreading consistency, 2 hours.
-
- Buttercream
-
- 8 T. unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1 1/4 C. confectioner's sugar
- 3/4 C. plus 2 T. heavy (whipping) cream, chilled
-
- Place all ingredients in a food processor and process until light and fluffy,
- about 5 minutes. Stop mixer several times to scrape down sides of bowl.
- Transfer buttercream to medium-size mixing bowl and, using the paddle
- attachment of an electric mixer, continue to beat on medium-high speed, until
- buttercream is white and fluffy, 15 to 20 minutes. Stop mixer to scrape bowl
- several times. (If you don't have a paddle attachment, use whisk.) Use
- buttercream within an hour or it will need rewhipping.
-
- Assembly
-
- Spread all interior layers of cake with fudge filling and outside of cake with
- about 1 1/2 C. of buttercream. Shave 1 oz. dark chocolate over surface of
- cake with a fine grater, then use the knife method of shaving to make darker
- accents on the top of the cake. Makes 12 to 16 servings.
-
- Enjoy!
-
- Nancy Dooley
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