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Baking Experiment: Chocolate Cake with PB Frosting

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Today is my Mom’s birthday! She requested chocolate cake, but not just any chocolate cake. There was an old family favorite recipe that has a cup of hot coffee as an ingredient. The problem was, neither of us had a copy of that recipe somehow. However, the internet yielded this recipe from Sally’s Baking Addiction. I made it as given, and it turned out really moist and rich!

You don’t really taste the coffee, or the espresso powder, but I think it does add a depth of flavor that is very nice. This recipe from All Recipes is what I used for the frosting. It is a nice mix of salty and lightly sweet that we really enjoyed.

I am not great at frosting a cake in a way that looks good, but it tasted great anyway!

I do have one last baking experiment planned for this year – a sort of updated mincemeat pie that I plan to make on Christmas. And then I need to decide what, if anything, I’m going to do next year. My DH is voting for a new kind of pizza each month, and Mom is voting for cookies. Maybe I’ll do both, or maybe neither. We shall see!

11 thoughts on “Baking Experiment: Chocolate Cake with PB Frosting”

  1. It sounds delicious. I’ll be here for the cookies, the pizzas and anything else you experiment with. Do you mean mincemeat as in actual meat? Or do you mean the mincemeat we have here which is currants, raisins, candied peel and spices?

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    1. Aw – I love reading about your adventures too! It’s the dried fruit-based mincemeat. I did change up the dried fruit mixture, so we’ll see how that part goes. But it’s been soaking in brandy and spiced for a week now, so I’m hopeful!

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