Chocolate Chambord Cake
Ingredients
- 1 cup high-quality cocoa
- 2-3 cups bread flour
- 1/3 cup corn starch
- 2 Duck Eggs at room temperature
- Approximately 3/4 stick of butter, melted or 1/3 cup olive oil
- 1.5 cups butter milk, milk, eggnog or half and half
- 1.5 cups sugar
- 2-3 teaspoons of baking soda or powder
- 2-3 tablespoons vinegar
- Vanilla
- Kahlúa or Chambord Liqueur
- Optional: mixed berries
STEP 1
Preheat oven to 360 degrees
STEP 2
Mix liquids together (coffee, milk, vinegar, butter)
STEP 3
Beat eggs and sugar until white and foamy
STEP 4
Add dry ingredients. Whisk fluids into the dough until the batter looks sort of like pancake batter
STEP 5
Bake at 360 until toothpick comes out dry
STEP 6
Freeze the cake for about 1 hr when cool, with parchment attached
Whipped cream – cocoa, heavy cream, powdered sugar
Filling: sour cream, cocoa, honey
NOTES
When the cake is semi frozen, it is way easier to cut and fill.