American Cuisine
Cake ingredients:
- 1 ¾ cups all-purpose flour.
- 2 cups sugar.
- ¾ cups cocoa powder.
- 2 tsp baking soda.
- 1 tsp baking powder.
- 1 tsp kosher salt.
- 1 cup buttermilk.
- ½ cup vegetable oil.
- 2 eggs, at room temperature.
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract.
- 1 cup freshly brewed hot coffee.
- 2 boxes (13 oz each) Swiss Rolls.
- 4 pkg (3.3 oz each) Yodels or HoHos.
Frosting ingredients:
- 6 oz good semisweet chocolate, chopped.
- ½ pound unsalted butter, softened.
- 1 egg yolk, at room temperature.
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract.
- 1 ¼ cups sifted confectioners’ sugar.
- 1 tbsp instant coffee powder.
Cake directions:
- Preheat the oven to 350℉.
- Butter two 8 inch x 2 inch round cake pans. Line with parchment paper,
then butter and flour the pans.
- Sift the flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder, and salt
into the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment and mix on
low speed until combined.
- In another bowl, combine the buttermilk, oil, eggs, and vanilla.
- With the mixer on low speed, slowly add the wet ingredients to the
dry.
- With mixer still on low, add the coffee and stir just to combine,
scraping the bottom of the bowl with a rubber spatula.
- Pour the batter into the prepared pans and bake for 35 to 40 minutes,
until a cake tester comes out clean.
- Cool in the pans for 30 minutes, then turn out onto a cooling rack and
cool completely.
Frosting directions:
- Melt chocolate in a heat-proof bowl set over a pan of simmering water
or in the microwave.
- Stir until just melted and set aside until cooled to room temperature.
- In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, beat
the butter for about 3 minutes on medium-high speed until light yellow and
fluffy.
- Add the egg yolk and vanilla and continue beating for 3 minutes.
- Turn the mixer to low and gradually add the confectioners’ sugar, then
beat at medium speed, scraping down the bowl as necessary, until smooth and
creamy.
- Dissolve the coffee powder in 2 tsp of the hottest tap water.
- On low speed, add the chocolate and coffee to the butter mixture and
mix until blended.
- Spread immediately on the cooled cake.
- Place 1 layer, flat side up, on a cake plate.
- With a spatula, spread the top with frosting.
- Place the second layer on top, rounded side up, and spread the
frosting evenly on the top and sides of the cake.
- Arrange Swiss Rolls around outside of cake.
- Slice Yodels into thirds and arrange over the top of the cake.