Cake:
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 cup unsalted butter softened
- 1 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- 3 large eggs
- 2 1/2 cups cake flour
- 1 cup baking cocoa sifted
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup instant chocolate pudding mix small box
- 2 1/4 cups buttermilk
- 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
Chocolate Icing:
- 1/2 cup water
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup baking cocoa sifted
- 3 1/2 cups powdered sugar sifted
- 3 tablespoons heavy cream more or less for consistency
Instructions
Cake:
- Preheat regular, conventional oven to 350°.
- Beat sugar, butter & vanilla in large bowl.
- Beat in eggs.
- Mix in cake flour, baking cocoa, soda, salt, chocolate pudding and buttermilk.
- Stir in semi-sweet chocolate chips.
- Pour into greased tube pan.
- Bake in regular, conventional oven at 350° for 30 minutes.
- Adjust baking temperature down to 325° and continue baking 30-40 minutes more, until cake tester comes out clean.
- (Check with cake tester at the one hour mark.)
- Cool cake completely before icing.
Chocolate Icing:
- Heat water, butter and vanilla together in sauce pan on stovetop until melted.
- Remove from heat.
- Stir in one cup cocoa.
- Stir in powdered sugar, sifted.
- Stir in heavy cream, up to 3 tablespoons (or more) until you get the desired consistency.
- Ice cake by filling the hole in the middle of the cake first, then spread icing over cake top and pour over the sides. Icing will harden as it cools.
Notes
I bake this Brick Street cake in a two-piece, round, metal angel food cake pan, also called a tube pan in some places. There is a hollow tube going up the center of the pan. It measures 9.5″ across at the top and 8″ across at the base and is 4.25″ high. It is by Ecko. The bottom and center hollow tube are one piece and lift up and out of the sides of the pan. Unfortunately there aren’t standard size baking pans around the world, making it difficult, but I hope this gives you a good idea. Many others have baked this in a large bundt pan as well, with good success.
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