Last weekend was my birthday and my sister made this cake for me! It is fabulous and very easy to make.
The cake is a chocolate velvet and the recipe is from Southern Living magazine. The recipe can be found here. If you do not have the time to make a cake from scratch than use a cake mix, there are some excellent ones out there.
The filling is one that I make all of the time, it is my go to recipe. I use it for the filling or to frost cupcakes and cakes too. The recipe is from the back of the Hershey's Cocoa Can. I have posted on this frosting here.
Hershey's Famous Chocolate Frosting
Ingredients and Directions for filling/Frosting:
1 stick of butter melted
2/3 cup of Hershey's cocoa
3 cups powdered sugar
1/3 cup of milk
1 tsp vanilla
Melt butter and add cocoa, stir together until smooth. Alternately add milk and powdered sugar, mix on low with an electric mixer until smooth. Add vanilla and stir.
I like to add a little more milk so that is is more spreadable. Do what suits you.
Pecan Coconut Frosting.
1 cup evaporated milk
1 cup sugar
3 beaten egg yolks mixed with 1 tablespoon of water
1/2 cup butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/3 cup coconut
1 cup chopped pecans toasted
Mix the following ingredients on medium heat for 12 minutes:
1 cup evaporated milk
1 cup sugar
3 beaten egg yolks and tsp water
1/2 cup butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
Once this is thickened add the coconut and the pecans.
To make cake, slice the cakes in half, set aside. Place one layer of cake onto a cake plate or serving platter, spread with a layer of the chocolate frosting. Add second layer, frost with chocolate frosting and a layer of coconut pecan frosting. Add another layer of cake. Frost entire cake with chocolate frosting and then top the cake with coconut frosting.
3 comments:
What a delicious looking cake! It would be a special treat on the Christmas dessert table!
So nice stopping by!
Kindly, Lorraine
Your cake looks so delicious! I love coconut icing! Thanks for sharing your recipe!
It's got my mouth watering for a bite. Thanks for sharing. Pat
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