Best 8 Oaxacan Chocolate Mocha Cake Recipes

BORDER GRILL OAXACAN CHOCOLATE MOCHA CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. Grease one 9-inch round cake pan. Line bottom with a round of parchment or wax paper. In a 2-qt glass bowl, combine 16 ozs. chocolate and the cutter. Heat in a microwave oven on High 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 mins, stirring once or twice, until melted and smooth. In a large bowl, beat eggs with an electric mixer on high speed until slightly thickened and lemon colored, 5 to 7 minutes. Fold 1/3 of eggs into chocolate mixture. Fold in remaining eggs until well blended. Fold in espresso powder. Turn batter into prepared pan. Set in another larger pan and add water to reach 1/3 way up side of cake pan. Bake 5 minutes. Cover pan with foil. Bake 10 minutes longer. remove cake pan from water bath, uncover, and let cake cool on a rack 45 minutes. Refrigerate at least 6 hours or overnight. With a sharp knife, loosen sides of cake from pan. Turn out onto a serving plate. An hour or so before serving, in a medium bowl, beat together heavy cream and powdered sugar with an electric mixer on high speed until soft peaks form. Add sour cream and vanilla and beat until well mixed and peaks hold their shape. Spread over top and sides of cooled cake. Arrange pecans around edge of cake. Melt remaining 2 ozs. chocolate and drizzle with a fork over top of cake in a decorative pattern. Refrigerate until serving time.

MOCHA CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. In a large bowl, cream butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy, 5-7 minutes. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla. Combine flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with coffee and sour cream, beating well after each addition. , Pour into three greased and floured 9-in. round baking pans. Bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 30-35 minutes. Cool 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely., In a large bowl, beat cream cheese and butter until fluffy. Beat in the chocolate, coffee and vanilla until blended. Gradually beat in confectioners' sugar. Spread between layers and over top and sides of cake. Cover and refrigerate until serving.

CHOCOLATE MOCHA CAKE I

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease two 9 inch round cake pans.
• Measure flour, sugar, cocoa, oil, eggs, buttermilk, baking powder, soda, and salt into a mixing bowl. Dissolve instant coffee in hot water, and add to mixing bowl. Beat at medium speed for 2 minutes until smooth; batter will be thin. Pour into prepared pans.
• Bake for 30 to 35 minutes, or until an inserted wooden pick comes out clean. Cool in pans for 10 minutes, and then turn out onto racks to cool completely.
• Frost cooled cake with Coffee Icing. After frosting, melt some semisweet chocolate baking squares or chips in a double boiler. Drizzle chocolate around top outside edges letting it run down sides, or over top of cake.

LIGHT & FLUFFY CHOCOLATE MOCHA CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Lightly butter and line the bases of 2 x 18cm sandwich tins with baking paper. Whisk the eggs and sugar until light and fluffy, about 5 mins with a tabletop mixer or 10 mins using an electric hand whisk. The mixture will have increased greatly in volume and be thick enough to leave a trail on the surface when the whisk blades are lifted.
• Sift the flour, cornflour, cocoa and baking powder over the surface and fold in gently using a large metal spoon. Divide between the tins, gently spreading the mixture to the edges, then bake for 15-20 mins until the cakes are well risen, have begun to shrink away from the sides of the tins and spring back when gently pressed. Leave to cool in the tins for 5 mins, then turn out onto a rack.
• To decorate, microwave the chocolate and coffee together on Medium for 20-30 secs until the chocolate has melted. Gently stir until smooth, then cool slightly. Beat the soft cheese with the yogurt and icing sugar until smooth, then spoon half the mixture into a small bowl stir in the melted chocolate and set aside. Place one cake on a serving plate and spread with the yogurt mixture. Cover with the other cake, then spread the chocolate yogurt mixture over the top.
• To finish, microwave the 15g chocolate on Medium for about 20 secs until melted. Stir gently until smooth, then drizzle all over the cake.

MOCHA CAKE WITH CHOCOLATE CROWN

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Cake Preparation: Butter and flour 2 (8-inch) round cake pans; set aside. Stir hot water and coffee crystals in large bowl until crystals dissolve. Add cake mix, oil, and eggs to coffee mixture. With an electric mixer, beat for 2 minutes, or until well blended. Divide batter between prepared pans. Bake for 35 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cakes comes out clean. Cool cakes in pans on cooling racks for 15 minutes. Invert cakes onto cooling racks and cool completely.
• Filling and Frosting Preparation: Stir coffee crystals and hot water in medium bowl until crystals dissolve. Refrigerate for 30 minutes, or until cold. Fold whipped topping into cold coffee mixture. Then stir in chocolate fudge frosting just until blended; chill in the refrigerator. (This is the mocha cream.)
• Cut each cake horizontally in half. Place top cake layer, cut side up, on a serving platter. Spread 1 cup mocha cream atop cake. Top with bottom cake layer, cut side down. Spread 1 cup of mocha cream over second cake layer. Repeat layering with third cake layer and mocha cream. Top with remaining cake layer, cut side down. Refrigerate for 30 minutes. Evenly spread the remaining mocha cream onto the cake until completely covered. Return to refrigerator.
• Chocolate Crown Preparation: Draw 3 (6-inch) high crown designs over 3 (15-inch) long sheets of parchment paper. Cut out designs from parchment papers. Lay each crown parchment template on a large baking sheet. Melt chocolate morsels in a glass bowl in the microwave for 2 1/2 minutes, stirring every 30 seconds, until melted and smooth. Repeat with white morsels. Using an off-set spatula, spread melted chocolate thickly over 1 side of 2 of the crown templates. Repeat with melted white morsels and remaining crown template. Arrange additional chocolate morsels decoratively on white crown. Refrigerate for 30 minutes, or until chocolate is set. Wrap 1 chocolate template around half of cake; carefully peel off paper. Wrap second chocolate crown around remaining half of cake; carefully peel off paper. Seal ends of crowns with a knife dipped in very hot water. Refrigerate cake until chocolate crown is completely firm. Wrap white crown, paper side inward, around a 5-inch bowl. Refrigerate until white crown is completely firm. Carefully peel paper from white crown. Place white crown atop cake.

ONE-BOWL CHOCOLATE MOCHA CREAM CAKE

Steps:

• TO PREPARE CAKE:.
• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Combine flour and next 6 ingredients(through salt) in a large bowl.
• Add mayonnaise and oil beat with a mixer at low speed until well blended.
• Slowly add brewed coffee and vanilla, beat with a mixer at low speed 1 minute or until well blended.
• Stir in chocolate; pour batter into 9x13" baking dish coated with cooking spray.
• Bake for 30 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
• Cool completely in pan on wire rack.
• TO PREPARE MOCHA CREAM:.
• Combine water and granules in a large bowl stir until granules dissolve.
• Add marshmallow creme; beat with a mixer at low speed until smooth.
• Fold in whipped topping.
• Spread mocha cream over top of cake; drizzle with chocolate syrup and sprinkle with nuts.

TRIPLE CHOCOLATE MOCHA CAKE

Steps:

• Butter 2 8" cake pans or muffin pans, etc, and coat evenly with cocoa powder (I began using my new silicone pans with this recipe and did not need to pre-treat my pans with butter or cocoa).
• In large bowl mix together well first 8 ingredients with a wire whisk.
• Add eggs, chocolate milk, hot fudge topping, butter and vanilla; beat on medium for 2 minutes.
• In a small bowl, mix together hot water and instant espresso, stirring well to dissolve.
• Add espresso carefully to cake mix and beat until mixed well, batter will seem thin.
• Pour evenly into the prepared pans.
• Bake in pre-heated oven at 350º for about 40 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean; it's a dense cake and won't rise as high as you might expect.
• Cool in pans 10 minutes, then turn out onto wire racks to cool completely.
• Frost or dust with powdered sugar as desired.

CHOCOLATE MOCHA CAKE II

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour two 9 inch round cake pans.
• Cream the sugar and the shortening together until light. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each one.
• Sift the flour, salt, baking soda, and baking powder together. Set aside.
• Mix coffee and cocoa together until smooth. Add alternately with the flour mixture to the creamed mixture. Beat for 2 minutes then pour batter into the prepared pans.
• Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 30 to 35 minutes. Frost when cooled.