Chocolate Cake Florence
Recipe
- Title:
- Chocolate Cake Florence
- Categories:
- Chocolate, Cakes/choc.
- Yield:
- 6 servings
Ingredients
- 2 c Sifted cake flour
- -melted
- 2 ts Baking powder
- 1 ts Vanilla
- 1 ds Salt
- 1 1/3 c Milk
- 1/2 c Butter
- 1/4 c Tia Maria
- 1 1/2 c + 1/2 c sugar
- Chopped Nuts
- 4
- Eggs, separated
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- 4 oz Unsweetened chocolate,
- -Butter and flour 2 9" pans.
Directions
- Sift flour with baking powder and salt.
- Cream butter; add 1 1/2 c of the sugar gradually and blend until light and fluffy.
- Beat in egg yolks.
- Add chocolate and vanilla.
- Add flour alternately with milk, mixing well after each adition.
- Beat egg whites until stiff but not dry; add 1/2 c sugar and fold into batter.
- Turn into pans and bake 35 minutes.
- Cool.
Directions
- Pour 2 Tbsp Tia Maria over each layer and frost with Florence icing.
- Dust sides with chopped nuts.
Directions
- Florence Icing
Ingredients
- 4 Tbsp butter 2 c sugar 1/2 c milk 2 oz bitter chocolate Melt butter in a
- saucepan; add sugar and milk. Bring to a boil stirring constantly then
- cook over low heat 10 minutes or until temperature reaches 236 degrees. or
- 115 c. Melt chocolate; add Tia Maria. Stir into butter mixture. Remove
- from heat and beat icing until thick enough to spread.
Directions
- If icing hardens before cake is frosted, soften with a little hot water.
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