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The Best Chocolate Cake With Vanilla Cream + Ferrero Rocher Style Decorated!

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Looking for a rich, delicious chocolate cake recipe? This is the absolute BEST recipe for chocolate cake I have ever made! I have tried and tested hundreds of recipes for chocolate cake and none of them come close to this one. I found the original recipe to this chocolate cake on My Baking Addiction. After a few alterations and swapping the chocolate cream for my staple secret vanilla cake filling, as well as decorating the cake with chocolate shavings + my home grown chopped walnuts, my holiday ferror rocher style cake was born! 

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The Best Chocolate Cake With Vanilla Cream + Ferrero Rocher Style Decorated!

For Cake:

1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
2 cups sugar
1 ¾ cups unsweetened cocoa powder
2 tsp baking soda
2 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tbsp rum
pinch of salt
2 eggs
1 cup buttermilk
1 cup strong black coffee
½ cup vegetable oil
2 tsp vanilla extract
Chocolate shavings to decorate
Chopped walnuts to decorate

For Cream (NEW and Improved Recipe):

2 tbsp butter
3 tbsp flour
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup milk
1 egg or 2 egg yolks
1 tsp vanilla

To Make Cake:

  1. Preheat oven to 350F. Grease and flour two 9” round baking pans.
  2. In a mixing bowl using an electric mixer, combine sugar, flour, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder, and salt until combined.
  3. Add eggs, buttermilk, rum, coffee, oil, and vanilla. Beat on medium for 2 mins and then pour evenly into prepared pans.
  4. Bake for 30-35 mins or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool for 10 mins, remove to wire rack and transfer to the freezer to cool completely.

To Make Cream:

  1. Melt butter over direct heat, add flour and stir until frothy.
    Remove from heat and add sugar and salt, then the milk a little at a time.
  2. Blend thoroughly and cook over boiling water until thick. Use a double boiler to do this and stir constantly to avoid clumping. Beat egg or egg yolks in a separate bowl with rotary beater until foamy.
  3. Slowly drizzle and pour the hot mixture over the egg, stirring with a rotary beater constantly. Pour the mixture back in the double boiler and cook again over boiling water with constant stirring, 3 or 4 minutes. 
  4. Cover and cool, stirring occasionally, when cool add the vanilla and then spread the cream onto the cake layers.

To Assemble:

***Make sure your cake layers are completely cooled or else the cream will just melt off and become sloppy!

  1. Evenly spread vanilla cream on one cake layer and place the second layer on top. Frost the entire cake including the top and sides.
  2. Sprinkle chopped walnuts on the sides of the cake and then sprinkle the chocolate shavings on top. Voila!

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Vanilla Custard Cream Cake – Croatian Kremsnita

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A cremeschnitte (Croatian: kremšnita) or vanilla custard cream cake is not one of the best, but THE BEST dessert you will ever try. It has been my favorite cake since as far as I can remember, and brings back lots of childhood memories when I used to eat 7 slices as once!  No fancy decorative multi-layered cake can top this simple, heavenly vanilla cream, almost no-bake wonder. It tastes DELICIOUS and can be very addicting! Almost as if you are eating cold vanilla pudding with a soft crust and dusted with sweet powdered sugar.

It’s simple to make and requires no special baking skills – practically anyone can make this dessert. To add some pizzaz to each slice, I like to sprinkle powdered sugar on the top, drizzle with some chocolate sauce and place a few strawberries on a plate for some color. What a way to stun your guests for the holidays without too much effort! 

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Vanilla Custard Cream Cake – Croatian Kremsnita

Vanilla custard filled cake with puff pastry sheets as the crust.

Ingredients:
 
  1. 4 cups whole milk milk
  2. 8 eggs
  3. 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
  4. 1 1/4cups white flour
  5. 2 tsp vanilla extract vanilla sugar
  6. 2 puff pastry sheets
  7. 3 cups heavy whipping cream
  8. 1.5 tbsp powdered sugar
Directions:
 
To Prepare Puff Pastry Sheets
 
  1.  Preheat oven to 350F and lightly flour a clean surface. Using a floured rolling pin, thinly roll out each puff pastry sheet.
  2. Place each puff pastry sheet on a baking sheet and bake for ten minutes. Remove from oven and set aside to cool.
To Make Custard Cream
 
  1. Separate the 8 eggs from their yolks. Using an electric mixer, mix the 8 egg yolks with 1 1/2 cups of sugar until light and fluffy. Slowly add in flour, vanilla extract, and 1 cup of milk until well combined.
  2. Over medium heat, boil 3 cups of milk in a sauce pan. Fold in custard cream mix (from step 1) into boiling milk and slowly stir until thickened.
  3. Using an electric mixer, mix the 8 egg whites until very stiff and combine with the thickened milk mixture. Place 1 pastry sheet into a pan and pour the custard over the pastry, chill in fridge for a few hours until cooled and stiff.
  4. Beat 3 cups of heavy whipping cream with 1.5 tbsp of powdered sugar and pour over the chilled custard. Using a long, sharp and clean knife, cut the second pastry sheet into 20 squares. Place over the custard cake in place. Before serving, sprinkle each slice with powdered sugar.

Spooky Chocolate Orange Spider Cake With Cream Cheese Filling

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Chocolate lovers, you are in luck! Today we are featuring a delicious chocolate layered, cream cheese filled master piece that comes just in time for one of my favorite festivities of the year – Halloween! This spooky spider web cake is loaded with mouthwatering chocolate and orange layers with orange flavored cream cheese. It is an absolute wonder, and to make things even better, the whole cake is smothered in chocolate ganache.

To switch things up a bit, we are not going to feature the recipe here, but send you off to one of my favorite bloggers – Robin from Bird on A Cake. She made this amazing cake for Halloween and we couldn’t help but share it here!

Apple Spice Walnut Cake with Caramel Icing

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Cinnamon, apples, brown sugar, caramel, and walnuts are the perfect combination for a cozy cold-weather dessert! This apple spice bunt cake is very moist and dense, and makes the perfect after-dinner dessert or simple cake to eat with tea or coffee. Apples are super cheap this season which makes this the ideal cake to use up some in-season fruits you may have stored in the cupboard!

Apple Spice Walnut Cake with Caramel Icing

 
An apple bundt cake loaded with walnuts, cinnamon, and nutmeg with drizzled caramel
on top!
 
Ingredients:
 
For Cake
 
  1. 1.5 cups vegetable oil
  2. 1/2 cup granulated sugar
  3. ½ cup brown sugar
  4. 3 large eggs
  5. 3 cups of flour
  6. 2 tsp cinnamon
  7. 1 tsp baking soda
  8. 1 tsp nutmeg
  9. Pinch of salt
  10. 3.5 cups of apples, peeled and diced into small squares
  11. 1 cup of chopped walnuts, toasted
  12. 2 tsp vanilla extract
For Icing
 
  1. ½ cup brown sugar
  2. 1/3 cup half-and-half cream
  3. ¼ cup butter, cut into chunks
  4. Pinch of salt
  5. 1 cup powdered sugar

Directions:

To Make Cake
 
  1. Preheat oven to 325 F and grease and flour a bundt pan.
  2. In a large mixing bowl, sift together the dry ingredients: flour, cinnamon, baking soda, salt and nutmeg. In a separate bowl, combine oil, sugars, eggs, and vanilla extract and combine it with the dry mixture.
  3. Fold in chopped apples and walnuts. Pour into prepared pan and back for 1.5 hours or until a toothpick comes out clean.
  4. Remove from oven and cool in pan before transferring to a wire rack.
To Make Cake
 
  1. Preheat oven to 325 F and grease and flour a bundt pan.
  2. In a large mixing bowl, sift together the dry ingredients: flour, cinnamon, baking soda, salt and nutmeg. In a separate bowl, combine oil, sugars, eggs, and vanilla extract and combine it with the dry mixture.
  3. Fold in chopped apples and walnuts. Pour into prepared pan and back for 1.5 hours or until a toothpick comes out clean.
  4. Remove from oven and cool in pan before transferring to a wire rack.
To Make Caramel Icing
 
  1. Place brown sugar, cream, butter and salt in a saucepan over medium heat and stir constantly until dissolved.
  2. Pour into a small bowl and allow it to cool to room temperature. Add in the powdered sugar and beat until smooth. Drizzle over cooled bundt cake and enjoy!

Easy Halloween Pumpkin-Chocolate Marble Cake

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Fall is here, making pumpkin a staple in our kitchen when it comes to baking. From pumpkin pie, to pumpkin strudel, muffins, and cake, what is there not to love about this sweet, low-calorie food that swings us into the Halloween spirit! The bunt cake we are showcasing today is SUPER EASY to make and makes the perfect combination of pumpkin and chocolate – marbled! After all, a cake isn’t a cake without a dash of chocolate! And did we forget to mention, the glaze is made out of cream cheese? Now we’ve definitely got you hooked…

Easy Halloween Pumpkin-Chocolate Marble Cake

 
Pumpkin chocolate marble bundt cake with cream cheese frosting.
                                       
                                       Cook Time
                                       1 hr 10 min
 
Directions:
 
Pumpkin Cake Batter
 
  1. .75 cups unsalted butter
  2. 3 large eggs
  3. 1 ¼ cups pumpkin, canned
  4. ½ cup granulated sugar
  5. 1 ¾ cups white all purpose flour
  6. 1 tsp vanilla extract
  7. 1 tsp baking powder
  8. 1/2 tsp salt
  9. 1 tsp cinnamon
  10. ½ tsp nutmeg or allspice
  11. Orange food coloring
Chocolate Cake Batter
 
  1. .75 cups unsalted butter
  2. 3 large eggs
  3. 1/2 cup granulated sugar
  4. 1 tsp vanilla extract
  5. 1 cup white all purpose flour
  6. 1 tsp baking powder
  7. ½ tsp salt
  8. ¾ cups cocoa powder
Cream Cheese Frosting
 
  1. 4 ounces of cream cheese at room temperature
  2. ½ cup confectioner’s sugar
  3. 1 tsp salt
  4. 1 tbsp lemon juice
  5. 3 tbsp milk, add more if needed
Instructions:
 
  1. Grease/flour bunt pan and preheat oven to 350 F.
  2. To make pumpkin batter, beat butter and eggs until light and fluffy. Add in the rest of the ingredients and mix until combined. Add a few drops of food coloring to make the batter more orange.
  3.  Follow the same steps to make the chocolate cake batter and then pour in half of the pumpkin batter into the bundt pan. Now pour in half of the chocolate batter, then again the pumpkin batter, and finish off with the chocolate batter again.
  4. Use a knife to gently swirl the cake batters together and create a marbled effect. Bake for about 70 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
  5. Remove from oven and let the cake cool in pan for 10 minutes, before transferring to a cooling rack to cool completely.
To Make Cream Cheese Frosting
 
  1. Using an electric mixer, beat cream cheese on high until light and fluffy. Slowly add in sugar and keep beating until combined. Add in salt, lemon juice and milk, and mix on low until frosting comes out smooth without clumps. If glaze is too thick to pour, add in more milk 1 tbsp at a time.

Moist and Soft Apple Chunk Banana Bunt Cake

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A bunt cake that melts in your mouth! Inspired by the fall season just around the corner, this apple chunk banana bunt cake is a spin-off of regular banana bread. I am a huge fan of banana bread and so is everyone in my family – we’ve tried all the combinations you could think of except spicing it up with apples! All I basically did was follow my classic banana bread recipe I posted here and added one large chopped apple to the mix (I also omitted the chocolate). The apples made the bread super duper moist and down right addicting. Baking it in a bunt pan and sprinkling powdered sugar on-top gave it a little more oomph. Here’s the recipe once again: 

Quick tip: Because of the apples, I baked my bread about 10-15 minutes longer than usual because it was really moist. I also covered the top with tin foil near the end to give the insides time to bake and to prevent the top edges from burning!

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Moist and Soft Apple Chunk Banana Bunt Cake

 
Ingredients:
 
  1. 1 large apple, chopped into small chunks
  2. 2 cups All purpose flour
  3. 1 cup fine oatmeal
  4. 1 tsp baking soda
  5. 2 tsp baking powder
  6. 1/8 tsp salt
  7. 1 tbsp cinnamon
  8. 1/4 cup oil
  9. 2 tsp vanilla extract
  10. 4 ripe bananas
  11. 2 cups water/yogurt mixture (container of 200g plain yogurt mixed with water and 1.5tbsp of vinegar)
Instructions:
 
  1. Preheat the oven to 180 C and greese a loaf pan.
  2. Mix together flour, oatmeal, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon.
  3. Mix yogurt/water mixture together with oil, mashed bananas, and vanilla extract. Combine with the dry ingredients and mix until all lumps disappear. Now fold in the chopped apples.
  4. Pour into loaf pan and bake for about 1 hour and 10 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.

Rustic Carrot Cake Loaf with Coconut Yogurt Icing

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Introducing a new twist on grandma’s carrot cake featuring coconut yogurt frosting! How neat is that? Enjoy a delicious and moist combination of carrots, raisins, coconut, yogurt, and a tasty blend of spices – all guilt free! I never attempted to make frosting using yogurt, but after whipping up this creamy coconut dream, I will definitely never go back to sugar-based icings. This is a lot healthier than butter/sugar and it tastes almost exactly like I’m eating cream cheese frosting!

I have to admit I was a little worried about making this cake, but in the end it turned out beautifully. To decorate I used toasted coconut, which really gave it a kick! The next time I make this cake I will try adding some toasted walnut to the batter to give it a little more crunchiness. I also think if I added some pineapple it would turn from rustic to tropical! 

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Rustic Carrot Cake Loaf with Coconut Yogurt Icing

 
Milk-free, eggless carrot cake loaf with coconut yogurt frosting!
 
Ingredients:
 
For Cake
 
  1. 1 cup all-purpose flour
  2. 1/2 cup sugar
  3. 1 tsp baking soda
  4. 1⁄2teaspoon salt
  5. 2 tsp ground cinnamon
  6. 1⁄2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
  7. 3/4 cup grated carrot
  8. 1⁄2cup raisins
  9. 1⁄4 cup vegetable oil
  10. 1 tsp white vinegar
  11. 1 cup water
For Coconut Yogurt Frosting
 
  1. 2 packages of Greek yogurt (10 oz each)
  2. 1/2 cup powdered sugar
  3. 3/4 cup shredded coconut, sweetened
  4. 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
  5. Toasted coconut for garnish
Directions:
 
To Make Cake
 
  1. Preheat oven to 180C and grease and flour a loaf pan. Mix all ingredients together with a wooden spoon until everything is well combined.
  2. Pour into pan and bake for about 20 mins or until toothpick comes out clean.
To Make Icing
 
  1. Pour Greek yogurt into a large bowl. Using an electric mixer mix 1/2 cup powdered sugar 1 tablespoon vanilla extract. Beat on high for 1 minute then add 1/2 cup shredded coconut and continue to beat for another minute. Refrigerate for at least 30 minutes to help thicken the icing.
To Assemble
 
  1. Make sure your cake is cooled down completely! Slice the cake in half and slather on a generous amount of frosting. Leave enough for the top of your cake and garnish with toasted coconut.