Dessert Recipes

Mocha Cake

Ingredients:

2 cups sifted flour
1 tsp. fine iodized salt
1-1/2 cups white sugar
3 tsp. baking powder
2 tbsp. instant coffee
1/2 cup salad oil
3/4 cup hot water
8 egg yolks
8 egg whites
1 tsp. cream of tartar

How to make Mocha Cake Recipe

Preheat oven to 350 deg F. Grease and flour 8 -inch round baking pans and 3 inch in height. In a medium mixing bowl, combine flour, salt, 1 cup of the sugar, baking powder and coffee. Make a well in the center, amd pour in oil and hot water.
Using electric mixer with paddlle attachment, beat mixture at medium-low speed for 3 minutes. Continue mixing at the same speed, add ewgg yolks one at a time, blending well after each addition, until thouroughly mixed. Set aside.
In another medium bowl, beat egg whites and cream of tartar with wire beater attachment of electric mixer at medium high speed until frothy. Add the remaining 1/2 cup sugar in four additions, beating until mixture is stiff and glossy.
With rubber spatula, gently fold one fourth of beaten egg whites into batter, scrappiing bottom of bowl, until lightly blended. Gently fold about 1 cup of batter into beaten egg white mixture. Repeat until all the batter has been blended into egg white mixture. Pour evenly into prepared pans.
Bake for 15 minutes, then remove from oven and cool on wire rack. Fill and frost with coffee cream frosting and refrigerate.

Coffee Cream Frosting

1 cup butter, cut into big chunks
1 tbsp. instant coffee
1 cup whipping cream, chilled
1 cup powdered sugar, sifted

In a small mixing bowl of the electric mixer, beat butter with paddle attachment at low-medium speed until fluffy, about 3 minutes.
Add instant coffee and beat for 1 minute. Add cream, atablespoon at a time, beating well after each addition, until mixture is light and fluffy. add powdered sugar in four addiitons, beating well after each additions, until mixture is smooth.

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