Chocolate Cake with Blackberry Buttercream Frosting
- On February 16, 2011
- By Alyssa
- In Food
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I usually use Valentine’s Day as an excuse to make something ridiculously decadent and pink. I did really well this year.
The frosting isn’t raspberry or strawberry: it’s blackberry. I love a little blackberry jam on my toast but can’t eat more than a thin layer. The sour berry lends itself perfectly to sweet frosting! It makes an extremely rich and deep flavor, rather than something too sweet.
And the decorating was really easy too. Get a 1M or 2M decorating tip, make a circle, and then swirl around the circle two or three times! My frosting was a tiny bit too runny, but that’s okay. My decorating inspiration came from the wonderful I am Baker, who posted a great rose tutorial here.
Hershey’s Perfectly Chocolate Cake
2 c sugar
1 ¾ c all-purpose flour
¾ c cocoa
1 ½ tsp baking powder
1 ½ tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
2 eggs
1 c milk
½ c vegetable oil
2 tsp vanilla extract
1 c boiling waterHeat oven to 350°F. Grease and flour two 9-inch round baking pans or one 13x9x2-inch pan.
Stir together sugar, flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt in large bowl. Add eggs, milk, oil and vanilla; beat on medium speed of mixer 2 minutes. Stir in boiling water (batter will be thin). Pour batter into prepared pans.
Bake 30 to 40 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes; remove from pans to wire racks. Cool completely.
Blackberry Buttercream Frosting adapted from Sammyw
1 c unsalted butter, room temperature
½ c seedless blackberry jam
4-6 cups powdered sugarBeat butter and jam with electric mixer with paddle attachment. Cream until well incorporated, bout two minutes.
Gradually add powdered sugar until you reach the desired consistency.
To assemble a layered cake, cut in two however you like. Spread a layer of blackberry jam along bottom layer. Place the second layer on top. Decorate with blackberry buttercream frosting.
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princesayasmine
Wow! That is definitely too good to eat.
sweet road
This is a beautifully decorated cake, and I love the blackberry frosting idea. I’m sure it’s delicious!
Stephanie A Calvin
Yum! This looks great!
Kate
Oh my, that looks and sounds amazing! Just added seedless blackberry jam to my shopping list!
Gina Kim
looks great!
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sara
Love it! This cake looks so pretty and decadent, and I love the idea of blackberries plus chocolate. Yum!
Mary
That cake looks delicious! The creaminess of the butter paired with the acidity from the berry, what a great combination and it gives the icing a beautiful colour. :)
Bridgett
This has to be one of the most lovely cakes I have seen in the longest time. It is just perfection and I love the use of blackberry jam. The color is just gorgeous and the chocolate cake sounds like a divine match with the frosting.
cantstopbaking
Yum, this looks amazing. Blackberry+Chocolate- brilliant!!
Gale
beautiful, beautiful blog!!!!!
Alina
Blackberry and chocolate, how super sexy! And of course the pink buttercream roses look fabulous.
Zoe
this looks beautiful beyond belief!!!!
zilchie
Oh lordy. Be my Valentine!
Sarah Elizabeth
Oh my decadent goodness! I want to make this cake so badly. It looks delicious!
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erin
Thanks for commenting on my blog. Sweet!! The icing you made sounds super, duper yum. I’ve got to try it!!
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Jordan
The cake is delicious, however. I think the frosting would be better with real blackberries! :)
blackberry
lovely cake .its amazing
Bonnie
That looks good!.I’m going to try this recipe.
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Jenni
Great post. Some people say chocolate is better then anything. We have to agree 100%. Have to revisit this post.
The Chocolate Bottle
I tried it out and it’s absolutely amazing!! Love this recipe.
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Jessiekays
Gorgeous colour! And your last photo made me hungry, literally just after eating lunch..
Dulciuri la Sorina
marvelous!!!!!!!!!
big, big like!!!
Kandy
I am having a problem with reading the amounts of the ingredients…there are odd symbols and i am not sure of the amounts of each ingredient. Looks like a perfect cake and frosting!
Alyssa
Thank you for letting me know! Looks like my formatting got a bit messed up when I moved my website over. It should be all fixed now! :)