chocolate turtle cake
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Another goodie! If you have a chocolate craving this cake will do the trick!
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yield
10 -12
prep time
40 Min
cook time
20 Min
method
Convection Oven
Ingredients For chocolate turtle cake
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1egg
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1 cbuttermilk
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2/3 cvegetable oil
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2 cflour, all purpose
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1 3/4 csugar
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1/2 ccocoa powder unsweetened
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1 Tbspbaking soda
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1 tspsalt
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1 ccoffee (hot brewed)
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1 csugar
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1/2 cmilk
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6 Tbspbutter
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12 ozsemi sweet chocolate morsels
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1-2 tsphot coffee if needed for consistency
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1 1/2 cpecan halves toasted
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3/4 ccaramel ice cream topping (hersheys -my favorite)
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3wooden skewers to hold cake together if needed
How To Make chocolate turtle cake
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1Grease 3 9inch cake pans Line with parchment paper Grease the paper and dust with cocoa powder
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2In a small bowl combine: egg, oil, buttermilk
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3In a large mixing bowl combine: flour,sugar,cocoa powder,baking soda, salt
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4Gradually mix buttermilk mixture to flour mixture until combined
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5Gradually beat in hot coffee
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6Pour batter into prepared pans evenly
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7Bake on 350 and cool in pans on wire racks for 10 minutes. Loosen sides from pans and invert cakes on racks, Peel off paper and cool completely
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8ICING: In a small saucepan combine sugar, milk,butter. Bring to a boil stirring constantly
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9Remove from heat and add chocolate morsels. Whisk until smooth. Add 1-2 tsp hot coffee if it's too thick to ice cake smoothly.
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10makes 1 1/2 cups of icing
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