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Best Double Chocolate Cake with Black Velvet Icing | Alexandra's Kitchen

69 ratings
· 2hr 10min · Vegetarian · 10 servings
Adapted from: Gourmet via Epicurious Notes: The original recipe calls for making a chocolate ganache, which sounds heavenly, but I have always adored my grandmother’s chocolate glaze recipe — it’s called black velvet icing and it contains eggs, which is odd, but it’s so good — so that is the one I use. If you want to use Gourmet’s chocolate ganache, find it here. Some commenters have found the amount not to be enough for a full cake, so I've updated the quantities below to be a double…
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Ingredients

Refrigerated
• 3 Eggs, large
• 6 Eggs
Baking & Spices
• 2 1/2 cups All-purpose flour
• 3/4 tsp Baking powder
• 2 tsp Baking soda
• 3 oz Chocolate, fine quality semisweet
• 1 1/2 cups Cocoa powder, unsweetened
• 1 Heaping 1/2 cup of confectioners' sugar
• 1 1/4 tsp Salt
• 8 oz Semi-sweet chocolate
• 3 cups Sugar
• 3/4 tsp Vanilla
Oils & Vinegars
• 3/4 cup Vegetable oil
Drinks
• 1 1/2 cups Coffee, hot
Dairy
• 8 tbsp Butter
• 1 1/2 cups Buttermilk

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