Chocolate Honey Layer Cake Recipe
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4.8
Chocolate Honey Layer Cake Recipe
Description
The recipe starts by finely pulsing chocolate chips before folding them along with honey and oil into whipped eggs beaten until foamy and tripled in volume. A dry mix of flour, baking soda, and cacao powder is gently incorporated to maintain lightness. The batter is divided and rolled out into eight thin discs, then baked briefly at 350°F until just lightly browned, resulting in delicate cake layers.
The frosting is made by whipping very cold heavy cream with sweetened condensed milk and Irish cream liqueur, yielding a creamy, mildly sweet, and boozy cream perfect for layering. Once baked and cooled, the cake layers are stacked with this cream, creating a multi-layered chocolate honey cake with moist texture and balanced sweetness.
This cake serves well for special occasions or as a refined treat where the honey complements the chocolate depth and the Irish cream adds subtle complexity. The method emphasizes gentle handling of batter and careful shaping for even, thin layers.
Ingredients
Chocolate-honey Layer Cake
- 3 egg
- 3/4 cup dark chocolate chips or milk chocolate chips
- 4 tbsp honey
- 2 tbsp canola oil or light olive oil
- 2 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 2 tsp cacao powder
Chocolate-honey Cake Cream
- 2 cup heavy whipping cream very cold
- 1 cup sweetened condensed milk
- 3 tbsp Irish cream liqueur
Instructions
Preparing the Chocolate Honey Cake Layers
- In a food processor, pulse the chocolate chips into tiny pieces and set them aside.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer, combine the eggs with honey. Beat them together until they turn foamy and triple in volume.
- In a separate bowl, stir the flour, baking soda, and cacao together. Set the mixture aside.
- Stir in the oil and chocolate into the egg mixture and stir until well-combined.
- In small portions, fold in the flour mixture into the eggs. Mix until the ingredients are well-combined.
- Divide the dough into eight equal pieces.
- On a well-floured surface, roll out a dough piece as large and flat as you can (you'll trim the layers down later, but this will help give you more surface to work with). To transfer it to the baking sheet easily, roll it up onto the rolling pin and unroll it onto the baking sheet.
- Bake the cake layer at 350°F for 5-7 minutes or until lightly browned. While one layer is baking, roll out the next dough piece. Once the layer is done, remove it from the oven and trim it into a perfect circle using a dinner plate as a stencil. Save the cake trimmings for decorating. Repeat the process until all your cake layers are baked.
Making the Chocolate Honey Cake Cream
- In the bowl of a stand mixer, beat the sweetened condensed milk, Irish cream liqueur, and extra cold heavy whipping cream together until the mixture is thick and reaches stiff peaks.
- Spread a thin layer of cream on your serving plate.
Assembling the Cake
- Place a cake layer on top of the cream on the serving plate and spread a layer of cake cream on top. Place another cake layer on top and repeat the process until you run out of cream and cake layers.
- Frost the outside of the cake with the remaining cake cream and refrigerate the cake overnight. The next day, blend up the leftover cake trimmings and decorate the sides of the cake with them. Optionally, you can pipe dollops of cream all over edges of the cake and place a chocolate chip right in the center.
Nutrition Information
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Serving: 12servings
Amount Per Serving
Calories 357 kcal
% Daily Value*
| Calories | 357kcal | 18% |
| Carbohydrates | 41g | 14% |
| Protein | 7g | 14% |
| Fat | 18g | 28% |
| Saturated Fat | 11g | 55% |
| Polyunsaturated Fat | 1g | 6% |
| Monounsaturated Fat | 5g | 25% |
| Trans Fat | 1g | 50% |
| Cholesterol | 104mg | 35% |
| Sodium | 155mg | 6% |
| Potassium | 172mg | 4% |
| Fiber | 1g | 4% |
| Sugar | 22g | 44% |
| Vitamin A | 711IU | 14% |
| Vitamin C | 1mg | 1% |
| Calcium | 109mg | 11% |
| Iron | 1mg | 6% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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Overall Rating
4.8
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