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Prep Time: 0 Minutes Cook Time: 30 Minutes |
Ready In: 30 Minutes Servings: 12 |
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My Polish girlfriend made this wonderful cake called Murzynek, a moist delightful layered chocolate cake. Although there are many versions, hers was a chocolate cake filled with a rich buttercream filling and icing. Read more . She translated the recipe into English . However, after looking at her recipe, I changed it a bit by adding more baking cocoa, a bit more butter and less eggs and it came out just as great! One can use any liquer cake glaze and their favorite buttercream icing. I happened to have pans suitable for Valentines day and thus the heart shaped top and garnishes. However next time I would standard pans and frost the whole thing for a more elegant look Ingredients:
cake |
2 cups flour |
2 cups sugar |
1/2 cup baking cocoa( european dark ) |
2 tsp baking powder |
10 tbs very softened butter |
3 eggs room temperature |
2 tsp vanilla |
1 cup milk ( i use skim - all i ever use ) room temperature |
glaze |
1 cup water heated |
3 tbs rum |
2 tbs sugar |
1 tsp vanilla or cream flavor |
buttercream:use your favorite recipe |
garnish: chocolate curls, choclate shavings etc etc |
Directions:
1. Cake:
2. Sift all the dry ingredients in a bowl
3. Make a well in the center and add the egg, milk and butter
4. Beat at low speed with electric mixer to blend and then at medium speed until mixture is blended and smooth.
5. Alternatly one may also cream butter and sugar, add eggs and blend into dry ingredients with additions of the milk.
6. Butter 2, 9 inch cake pans very well
7. Divide batter into the pans
8. BAke in a 350 oven center rack until cake is tested done, about 30 minutes
9. Cool on rack about 10 to 15 minutes and invert cake layers to cool on racks
10. When cool, I chill layers or partially freeze for easy splitting.
11. Meanwhile make glaze by combining ingrdients to dissolve sugar and combinin g ingerdients.
12. Set aside
13. Make your favorite buttercream icing and set aside
14. Split each layer in half
15. Drizzle or gently brush soaking liquid onto layers
16. Fill and frost as desired.
17. Garnish as desired
18. Note: I used a set of pans that have a heart shaped top layer.So I
19. did not want to completely frost the top
20. Otherwise I would have then garnised with chocolate shavings
21. Options: often the cakes may have a cherry filling along with the liquer glaze
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