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Aunt Lou's Chocolate Cake Recipe Card
Here is a 100 year old family recipe for chocolate cake with a tasty coffee cream glaze. This make a rich chocolate cake the old fashioned way.
Prep Time
30 mins
Cook Time
30 mins
Total Time
55 mins
Servings: 8 servings
Calories: 434 kcal
Course:
Dessert
Cuisine:
American
Ingredients
- 1 cup sugar
- ½ cup butter
- 1 egg
- 2 ounces baking chocolate semi-sweet, melted
- 2 cups flour
- ½ tsp. salt
- ¾ tsp. baking soda
- 1 tsp. baking powder
- 1 cup buttermilk
Coffee cream glaze:
- 4 Tbsp. butter
- 2 cups confectioners sugar sifted
- ½ oz. chocolate melted, semi-sweet
- 2 Tbsp. heavy cream
- 2 Tbsp. liquid coffee
Instructions
- Preheat the oven at 350F.
- In a stand mixer cream together the sugar, and ½ cup of butter at room temperature until light and fluffy then add the egg.
- Add 2 oz. of melted chocolate.
- Sift together flour, salt, baking soda and baking powder and add this to the batter alternating with the buttermilk.
- Add to your prepared baking pan.You can use a mini bundt pan coated lightly with butter and cocoa powder, or a full size bundt pan.
- Bake for 20-25 minutes, or until a cake tester comes out clean.
- To make the glaze: In a stand up mixer cream butter at room temperature with the confectioners sugar until well combined. Add in heavy cream and the melted chocolate.
- Add in liquid coffee or just enough to have it achieve glaze consistency.
- Drizzle over cake.
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Nutrition Information
Calories
434kcal
(22%)
Carbohydrates
88g
(29%)
Protein
7g
(14%)
Fat
7g
(11%)
Saturated Fat
4g
(20%)
Cholesterol
28mg
(9%)
Sodium
291mg
(12%)
Potassium
299mg
(9%)
Fiber
3g
(12%)
Sugar
57g
(114%)
Vitamin A
135IU
(3%)
Calcium
82mg
(8%)
Iron
3.3mg
(18%)
Nutrition Facts
Serving: 8servings
Amount Per Serving
Calories 434
% Daily Value*
| Calories | 434kcal | 22% |
| Carbohydrates | 88g | 29% |
| Protein | 7g | 14% |
| Fat | 7g | 11% |
| Saturated Fat | 4g | 20% |
| Cholesterol | 28mg | 9% |
| Sodium | 291mg | 12% |
| Potassium | 299mg | 6% |
| Fiber | 3g | 12% |
| Sugar | 57g | 114% |
| Vitamin A | 135IU | 3% |
| Calcium | 82mg | 8% |
| Iron | 3.3mg | 18% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.