wednesday awesomeness: birthday cake for the lover

It was a perfect scenario, he went for biking with his pals and there I was on Wednesday night , blasting my internet radio channel in the kitchen, and started making some birthday cake batter for the very first time. All is due to the Mayan Chocolate that my sister brought me from Mexico. Its been staring at me for weeks and I felt bad for not trying to make something good out of it.

 It was right for staring at me and put the thoughts in my brain.

Although I failed the suprise ( he opened the fridge before I attempted to secure and hide the cake), I am glad for the real good suprise:

Velvety.         Smooth    . Yummy.    Chocolatey.     Coffee.      Rich. Orange     . Love.         Creamy. Cheese    .  Dark Chocolate.  Soft.      Tangy.          Mocha.

                                       Love.       Love.  Over the Moon Lover~

So here I share with you my recipe for Wednesday night awesomeness, just in case you celebrate the birthday on Wednesday, or any other day will do!

Adapted from dark chocolate from Allrecipes

Cake:

• 2 cups boiling water

• 1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder

• 2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour

• 2 teaspoons baking soda

• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder

• 1/2 teaspoon salt

• 3 tablespoon of instant coffee

• 1 cup butter, softened

• 1 ¾ cups white sugar

• 4 egg and don't  forget  1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract  for some heavenly goodness

1.Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease 2 - 9 inch round cake pans. In medium bowl, pour boiling water over cocoa , and whisk until smooth. Let mixture cool. Sift together flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt; set aside.

2. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs one at time, then stir in vanilla. Add the flour mixture alternately with the cocoa mixture. Last put in the instant coffee and mix batter gently and throw it into the 2 greased pans.

3. Bake in preheated oven for 25 to 30 minutes. Allow to cool.

Icing:

• 2 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, softened

• 1/2 cup butter, softened

• 2 cups sifted confectioners' sugar

• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

• 1 table spoon of orange rinds

• 2 table spoon of orange marmalade jam

• In a medium bowl, cream together the cream cheese and butter until creamy. Mix in the vanilla, then gradually stir in the powder sugar. Put in the orange rinds and marmalade jam the last.Store in the refrigerator after use.

Once you prepared the cake and the icing, take out the cake from the pans and flatten the uneven sides of the cake by carving the cake horizontally. Cover the top with cream cheese icing and put the other cake on top. Cover the whole cake with cream cheese icing and finish it off with shaved chocolate, orange rinds, and coffee!

Good luck : good Eat!

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