Chocolate Cream Cheese Brownie Cake
photo by sprue
- Ready In:
- 50mins
- Ingredients:
- 21
- Serves:
-
12
ingredients
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Cake
- 177.44 ml water
- 78.78 ml butter or 78.78 ml margarine, softened
- 78.78 ml shortening
- 44.37 ml baking cocoa
- 315.37 ml all-purpose flour or 354.88 ml cake flour
- 354.88 ml granulated sugar
- 4.92 ml baking soda
- 1.23 ml salt
- 157.80 ml sour cream
- 2 eggs
- 4.92 ml vanilla
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Cream Cheese Filling
- 59.14 ml butter or 59.14 ml margarine, softened
- 85.04 g package cream cheese, softened
- 473.18 ml powdered sugar
- 2.46 ml vanilla
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Chocolate Frosting
- 118.29 ml butter or 118.29 ml margarine, softened
- 473.18 ml powdered sugar
- 29.58 ml baking cocoa
- 44.37 ml milk
- 2.46 ml vanilla
- walnuts, chopped (optional)
directions
- For cake, heat oven to 350 degrees.
- Grease bottom and side of 2 round pans, 9x1 1/2 inches, with shortening; lightly flour.
- Heat water, butter, shortening and cocoa in 1-quart saucepan over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until smooth; remove from heat.
- Cool to room temperature.
- Mix flour, sugar, baking soda and salt in large bowl.
- Beat in cocoa mixture with electric mixer on low speed, scraping bowl occasionally, until smooth.
- Beat in sour cream, eggs and vanilla until smooth.
- Pour into pans.
- Bake 25-30 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
- Cool 10 minutes; remove from pans to wire rack.
- Cool completely.
- For cream cheese filling, beat butter and cream cheese in medium bowl on medium speed until fluffy.
- Beat in powdered sugar and vanilla on low speed until smooth.
- When cake is cooled completely, fill layers with cream cheese filling.
- For chocolate frosting, beat butter in medium bowl on medium speed until fluffy.
- Gradually beat in remaining ingredients on low speed until smooth.
- Frost side and top of cake with chocolate frosting.
- Press walnuts on side of cake, if using.
- Store cake covered in refrigerator.
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Reviews
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fun and delicious cake. i made 1.5 times the recipe so i could have 3 layers.. it looked great! i didnt use this frosting though b/c i wanted one where the chocolate was bloomed so i used 'Amanda Milk Chocolate Frosting Recipe #33778' and made it thinner so i could just pour it on the cake and it would drizzle down the sides instead of frosting the sides. then i sprinkled walnuts.. it was a beautiful cake and tasty too. and suprisingly easy to make considering how fancy it looked. thanks
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
CookingONTheSide
Carnegie, Pennsylvania
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