Easiest Way to Make Perfect Black Velvet Cake

Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, black velvet cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Black Velvet Cake is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look wonderful. Black Velvet Cake is something which I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook black velvet cake using 16 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Black Velvet Cake:

1. Prepare Cake:
2. Take Ghee, 188g + More For Greasing
3. Make ready 188 g Guinness Stout,
4. Take 57 g Black Cocoa Powder,
5. Take 75 g Demerara Sugar,
6. Make ready 75 g Dark Muscovado Sugar,
7. Prepare 113 g Sour Cream,
8. Make ready 75 g Eggs,
9. Get 1 TSP Pure Vanilla Paste,
10. Prepare 206 g Unbleached All Purpose Flour,
11. Make ready Pinch Sea Salt,
12. Take Frosting:
13. Prepare 150 g Cream Cheese,
14. Prepare 50 g Demerara Sugar Powder,
15. Get 94 g Heavy Whipping Cream,
16. Prepare Raw Cacao Powder, For Dusting

Steps to make Black Velvet Cake:

1. Prepare cake. - - Preheat oven to 180 degree celsius or 350 fahrenheit. - - Grease cake pan with ghee, lined with parchment paper and grease the paper with some more ghee. - - In a skillet over medium-low heat, melt ghee.
2. It will start "singing". - - Once the "singing" is subtle, add Guinness stout. - - Be careful as it may splash. - - It will start to bubble rapidly. - - Once the bubbling is subtle, add in the cocoa powder and sugar.
3. Remove from heat and stir to combine well. - - Keep stirring until the sugar has melted. - - In a large bowl, whisk sour cream, egg and vanilla until well combined. - - Add this mixture into the ghee mixture gradually while still stirring.
4. In another bowl, combine flour and salt well. - - Fold the flour mixture into ghee mixture in 1/3 portions at a time until everything is incorporated well. - - Transfer the cake batter into the prepared cake pan. - - Wack into the oven and bake for 40 mins or it pass the skewer test.
5. The center will rise and crack despite not adding any leavening agents due to the PH level of black cocoa powder. - - Set aside to cool down completely. - - Once the cake is cooled, transfer into a cake stand or a serving plate.
6. Prepare the frosting. - - In a large bowl, add cream cheese. - - Using a hand or stand mixer, whip until light and fluffy. - - Add in demerara sugar powder. - - To make demerara sugar powder, simply blitz until powder forms in a spice grinder or blender.
7. Continue whipping until well combined. - - Add in the whipping cream. - - Whip until stiff peaks form. - - Spread this frosting on top of the cake. - - Lastly, dust with some cocoa powder. - - Slice and serve warm or chilled.

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