Chocolate Cake with Coffee Marscarpone Icing

Chocolate Cake with Coffee Marscarpone Icing

  Ready in : 45 mins

Chocolate Cake with Coffee Marscarpone Icing might be a good recipe to expand your dessert repertoire. This recipe serves 10 and costs $1.48 per serving. Watching your figure? This lacto ovo vegetarian recipe has 564 calories, 9g of protein, and 43g of fat per serving. A mixture of bicarbonate of soda, olive oil, flour, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so scrumptious. Not a lot of people made this recipe, and 1 would say it hit the spot. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 45 minutes. It is brought to you by Foodista. With a spoonacular score of 33%, this dish is not so amazing.

Ingredients

bicarbonate of soda

bicarbonate of soda

1.5 tsp

butter

butter

1.25 stick

chocolate

chocolate

350 g

eggs

eggs

4

coffee

coffee

2 tbsp

mascarpone cheese

mascarpone cheese

200 g

olive oil

olive oil

60 ml

flour

flour

200 g

salt

salt

1 tsp

sugar

sugar

2 tbsp

vanilla paste

vanilla paste

1 tsp

water

water

1 tbsp

yogurt

yogurt

2 tbsp

Cooking in Steps

  1. 1
    Take everything out of the fridge so that all the ingredients can come to room temperature.Preheat the oven to 180C and line and butter a 24cm springform pan.Melt 350 g of the chocolate using either a double boiler over water, or by heating it in a microwave in 30 second intervals.

    chocolate

    chocolate

    butter

    butter

    water

    water

    springform pan
    springform pan
    double boiler
    double boiler
    microwave
    microwave
    oven
    oven
  2. 2
    Brush the melted chocolate onto the waxy side of the leaves, and leave to cool in a fridge or freezer until the chocolate sets. You can peel off the real leaves afterwards, leaving just their chocolate clones.

    chocolate

    chocolate

  3. 3
    Mix the flour, sugar, salt and bicarbonate soda in a large bowl and beat in the soft butter until you have a combined and creamy mixture.Now whisk together the yogurt, eggs, vanilla paste and olive oil and mix together with the dry ingredients.

    vanilla paste

    vanilla paste

    olive oil

    olive oil

    butter

    butter

    yogurt

    yogurt

    all purpose flour

    all purpose flour

    sugar

    sugar

    egg

    egg

    salt

    salt

    whisk
    whisk
    bowl
    bowl
  4. 4
    Mix in the chocolate too.

    chocolate

    chocolate

  5. 5
    Pour this batter into pan and bake for 40 minutes until a skewer inserted into the center comes out clean.

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    oven
    skewers
    skewers
    frying pan
    frying pan
  6. 6
    Let the cake cool a wire rack 10 minutes before turning out.

    wire rack
    wire rack
  7. 7
    Let the cake cool for at least another 30 minutes so the icing doesn't melt.To make the icing, dissolve the coffee in the boiling water, then beat the coffee syrup, sugar and Marscarpone together until stiff peaks form.

    flavoring syrup

    flavoring syrup

    coffee

    coffee

    icing

    icing

    sugar

    sugar

    water

    water

  8. 8
    Spread the icing over the top of the cooled cake and top with the chocolate leaves.

    chocolate

    chocolate

    icing

    icing