CHOCOLATE CUSTARD CAKE WITH BUTTERSCOTCH ORANGE FROSTING
I really love sweets but I need to eat healthy so I constructed a yummy sub for very rich chocolate cake.
Provided by Fat Free Queen
Categories Dessert
Time 1h30m
Yield 1 cake, 12 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 24
Steps:
- Preheat the oven to 350°F Line 2 nine-inch round cake pans and grease the sides of the pans. ( or use one designer pan and cut cake in half at the end).
- Sift together flour, cocoa, baking soda, cinnamon and salt; set aside.
- Beat together the oil and sugar in a mixing bowl.
- Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
- Blend in the vanilla and the applesauce.
- Add the dry ingredients alternately with the buttermilk to creamed mixture, beating well after each addition.
- Divide the batter evenly between the two pans.
- Bake for about 45 minutes or until cake is fully cooked.
- Custard filling:.
- Mix the sugar, flour and salt, and vanilla together in a double boiler and add the hot milk gradually, stirring constantly.
- Cook until the mixture thickens.
- Pour a 1/4 cup over the eggs and mix thoroughly; pour back into the first mixture and cook for at least 5 more minutes while stirring constantly.
- (I flash freez my custard filling to chill faster while stirring every two minutes).
- Orange Butterscotch frosting: In a medium bowl mix softened butter, and milk.
- Add 1/2 cup of sugar and mix thouroughly. Keep adding sugar, butter schnapps, orange juice, and rest of ingredients until it is the consistancy desired.
- Cut cake in half and fill with custard. Drizzle with frosting.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 448.6, Fat 13.1, SaturatedFat 3, Cholesterol 76.6, Sodium 518.7, Carbohydrate 77, Fiber 2.5, Sugar 42.8, Protein 8.1
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