Mocha Cake
An easy chocolate and coffee flavored caek with mocha buttercream frosting with a hint of cinnamon.
Servings: 12 + servings
Ingredients
- 2 chocolate cake mixes I used Dunkin Hines and ingredients to prepare cakes.
- 1/4 cup instant coffee
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
Frosting
- !Italian buttercream
- 1/4 cup cocoa
- 1 teaspoon instant coffee
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
Topping
- 1 bar dark chocolate -I used Ghiradelli 70% Bittersweet
Instructions
- Prepare cake according to package directions, add instant coffee and cinnamon. Bake in 14" pan for 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick comes out nearly clean.
- Mix coffee, cocoa, and cinnamon with Italian Buttercream Frosting, reserve a small amount if you want to pipe the edge a lighter color, don't add cocoa to that portion, just add cinnamon and coffee.
- Spread frosting onto the cake and shave chocolate bar with a potato peeler and sprinkle chocolate shavings on top. Pipe edge with frosting mixed without cocoa in a piping bag with 2D tip.