Chocolate Caramel Cake

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Chocolate Caramel Cake is an irresistible dessert! Delight your household and friends with a moist cocoa barroom covered with creamy caramel frosting. This one-layer barroom is large for birthdays, potlucks, and peculiar occasions.

Chocolate caramel barroom slices connected plates.

Chocolate Cake With Caramel Frosting

This caramel cocoa barroom look is wonderfully chocolatey. Moreover, to marque it adjacent better, it is topped with creamy caramel icing.

This cocoa caramel barroom look is the cleanable operation of flavors. The buttery spirit of the caramel icing truly enhances the cocoa spirit of the cake.

What Makes This Chocolate and Caramel Cake So Good?

Who doesn’t emotion cocoa and caramel? This cocoa caramel barroom look starts arsenic a fudgy, rich, incredibly moist cocoa cake. Then it’s made adjacent much delicious by slathered with salted caramel frosting. Sticky, creamy caramel with a hint of brackish is astir apt 1 of the astir delicious things ever!

Why You Should Try This Caramel and Chocolate Cake Recipe

This is simply a tried-and-true household cocoa barroom recipe, truthful you conscionable can’t spell wrong. It’s a ridiculously fudgy, ace moist cocoa barroom that’s sinfully decadent! Once you marque this moist cocoa barroom with creamy caramel frosting, it volition surely go your family’s favourite dessert.

This caramel cocoa barroom look is useful for birthdays, holidays, and the unusual middle-of-the-week pick-me-up.

Ingredients List

Here’s what you’ll request for the cocoa cake:

All-purpose flour
Sugar
Cocoa powder
Baking soda
Cream of tartar
Shortening
Milk
Eggs
Vanilla extract
Salt

Here’s what you’ll request for the caramel frosting:

Butter
Brown sugar
Salt
Powdered sugar
Milk

How to Make Chocolate Cake With Caramel Frosting

This cocoa and caramel barroom could not beryllium simpler to enactment together. Here’s however to spell astir it:

To cook the cocoa cake:

Place the flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, pick of tartar, and brackish successful a ample mixing bowl.
Use a whisk to harvester the adust ingredients.
Add the shortening and full milk.
Use an electrical mixer to bushed until smooth.

Collage of steps for making a cocoa barroom from scratch.

Add the eggs, milk, and vanilla.
Beat to harvester until you person a creaseless batter.
Pour the batter into a 13 x 9-inch baking dish.
Bake astatine 350°F for 30 to 40 minutes.

Collage of last steps for making and baking a cocoa cake.

To marque the frosting:

Stir the brownish sweetener and brackish into the melted butter.
Bring to a boil for 2 minutes, stirring constantly.
Remove from the vigor and adhd the milk.
Stir the beverage into the butter-brown sweetener mixture.

Collage of steps for making caramel frosting.

Bring to a afloat boil again. Set speech and cool.
Add the powdered sweetener to the pan.
Stir until creaseless capable to spread.
Use an offset spatula to dispersed the frosting implicit the apical of the cake.

Collage of last steps for making caramel frosting and putting it connected a cocoa cake.

Recipe Tips

For champion results, marque definite your ingredients are astatine country somesthesia earlier you begin.
When measuring your flour, beryllium definite not to battalion it down successful the measuring cup. Packed flour volition springiness you a denser and dryer cake. Fluff up the flour a small successful the container and past spoon it cautiously into the measuring cup. Level it disconnected with a consecutive edge.
Use parchment insubstantial to enactment the cookware making an overhang connected the 2 agelong sides truthful you tin easy assistance the full barroom out. This makes for a overmuch prettier presumption than serving the barroom from the pan. It besides ensures nary sticking to the pan’s bottom.
If you privation a furniture barroom oregon circular cakes, you tin cook this barroom successful 2 9-inch circular barroom pans. Baking clip whitethorn alteration truthful cheque the barroom aft 25 minutes of baking time.

Recipe Variations

This salted caramel cocoa barroom look tin beryllium varied. Here are immoderate ideas:

Add coffee: Replace the 1/3 cupful beverage with 1/3 cupful coffee. You won’t sensation the coffee, but the cocoa spirit volition deepen adjacent more. This besides works with a stout brew similar Guinness.
Add toffee bits: Sprinkle connected apical to supply a small crunch – it volition besides marque your cocoa barroom look prettier.
Add cocoa chips: Sprinkle mini cocoa chips connected apical to adhd different root of cocoa – aft all, you tin ne'er overdo chocolate, right?
Add nuts to the barroom oregon frosting: Pecans oregon walnuts enactment truly well.
Add coconut to the cake: Gives you a cocoa coconut cake.
Add much caramel: After you’ve slathered your cocoa barroom with caramel frosting, drizzle connected immoderate other caramel sauce.
Add much salt: Sprinkly flaky oversea brackish connected top.

A portion of cocoa caramel barroom connected a achromatic plate.

How to Serve Your Chocolate and Caramel Cake

A portion of this cocoa barroom is cleanable to bask with your java oregon tea. Here are a mates of different bully ideas:

Serve it arsenic a dessert with vanilla crystal cream.
It tastes truly bully with slices of tart apples oregon apple chips.

How to Store Chocolate Cake

This caramel and cocoa barroom tin beryllium stored astatine country somesthesia for 4 to 5 days. Wrap it well, truthful it doesn’t adust out.

Leftover barroom slices tin besides beryllium frozen for up to 3 months. Wrap each portion successful integrative wrapper and spot the wrapped slices successful a freezer bag. Make definite to get arsenic overmuch aerial arsenic imaginable retired of the container earlier closing it. Thaw the barroom successful the fridge overnight.

Chocolate caramel barroom portion held implicit the cake.

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The look comes from Sue A. Mertens Minick from Hazelwood, MO. She really recovered this tract connected the internet! And yes, she is household

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Chocolate Caramel Cake

This moist cocoa barroom with creamy caramel frosting is definite to beryllium a favourite dessert.

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Keyword Cakes, Chocolate cake, Scratch baking

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 40 minutes

Total Time 50 minutes

Servings

Calories 272kcal

Author Stephanie Manley

Ingredients

Cake

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 cups sugar
1/2 cup baking cocoa
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
1 teaspoon salt
2/3 cup shortening
1 cup whole milk divided use
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Caramel Frosting

1/2 cup butter
1 cup brown sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
6 tablespoons milk
3 cups powdered sugar

Instructions

Cake

Preheat the oven to 350°F.
Sift the flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, pick of tartar, and brackish into a mixing bowl.
Add the shortening and 2/3 cupful full beverage to the sifted substance and bushed until smooth.
Add the eggs, 1/3 cupful full milk, and vanilla and bushed until mixed.
Pour the batter into a 9×13-inch baking crockery and cook for 30 to 40 minutes.

Caramel Frosting

Combine the butter, brownish sugar, and brackish successful a tiny saucepan implicit mean vigor and disturbance until the food has melted. Raise the vigor and bring the substance to a hard boil for 2 minutes, stirring constantly.
Remove the saucepan from the vigor and adhd the milk, stirring vigorously.
Return the saucepan to the vigor and bring to a afloat boil again. Set speech to chill until lukewarm.
Add the powdered sweetener and disturbance until smooth.
When the barroom has cooled, frost it with the caramel frosting.

Notes

This look comes from Sue A. Mertens Minick from Hazelwood, MO. She recovered this tract connected the internet! And yes, she is family, she is simply a household subordinate of mine.