ESPRESSO CAKE
This is a fabulous cake that I serve when having a coffee night! :-) Its spectacular...people love the look of it!
Provided by love4culinary
Categories Dessert
Time 55m
Yield 1 8inch square cake
Number Of Ingredients 14
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Grease and flour an 8-inch square baking pan.
- To prepare your frosting: Beat cream cheese and butter in a large mixing bowl at medium speed until smooth.
- Dissolve the instant espresso in milk.
- Add confectioners sugar to cream cheese mixture alternately with milk mixture, beating 1-2 minutes or until blended.
- Remove 1 cup of frosting from bowl and set aside.
- To prepare your cake: Using a mixer (on low speed!!) add eggs to remaining frosting in mixing bowl.
- Add vanilla and beat until blended.
- In small bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt.
- Dissolve espresso granules in milk.
- Add flour mixture to mixing bowl alternately with milk mixture and continue beating 1-2 mins or until well blended.
- Pour cake mixture into pan and bake 30-40mins or until a toothpick inserted into center comes out clean.
- Cool cake for 10 minutes and remove from pan.
- Cool cake completely.
- Place cake on serving plate.
- Spread sides and top of cake with frosting that was set aside.
- Place 3 chocolate covered espresso beans on center of cake and place mint leaves on either side of beans, pointing in towards the center of the beans-- as leaves would be on a flower!
- ENJOY!
Nutrition Facts : Calories 3734.2, Fat 139.7, SaturatedFat 84.1, Cholesterol 783.3, Sodium 1900.1, Carbohydrate 587.2, Fiber 4.2, Sugar 446.1, Protein 42.8
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