Ingredients
- Cake:
- 3/4 cup hot brewed coffee
- 1/2 cup unsweetened baking cocoa
- 3 tea. cinnamon
- 2 cups flour
- 1 tea. baking powder
- 3/4 tea. salt
- 1/2 tea. baking soda
- 3/4 cup butter, softened
- 1 3/4 cups sugar
- 3 eggs
- 3/4 cup buttermilk
- 2 tea. vanilla
- FROSTING
- 1 can (13/4 oz) dulce de leche
- 1 pkg. (8 oz) cream cheese, softened
- 1/2 cup whipping cream
Preparation
Step 1
Heat oven to 350 degrees. Spray bottoms and sides of 2 (9") round cake pans with cooking spray, then line bottoms of pans with cooking parchment paper or waxed paper.
In medium bowl, beat coffee, cocoa and cinnamon with wire whisk until smooth; set aside to cool slightly. In another medium bowl, mix flour, baking powder, salt and baking soda until well blended, set aside.
In large bowl, beat butter an sugar with electric mixer on high speed until creamy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition; set side. Stir buttermilk and vanilla into coffee mixture. Starting with flour mixture, alternately beat flour mixture, 1/2 at a time, and coffee mixture, 1/3 at a time, into butter mixture on medium, speed, scraping bowl occasionally. When all ingredients have been added, beat 30-60 seconds longer or until butter is smooth and well blended. Pour into pans.
Bake 32-37 minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out clean and cake springs back when touched lightly in center. Cool in pans on cooling racks 10 minutes. Remove cakes from pans to cooling racks (leave paper on cakes). Cool completely, about 30 minutes.
In large bowl, beat dulce de leche and cream cheese on high speed about 2 minute or until blended and smooth; scrape side of bowl. Beat in whipping cre3am until stiff peaks form.
On serving plate, plate 1 cake, rounded side down; remove paper liner. Spread 3/4 cup of the frosting over top to within 1/2" of edre. Remove paper from other cake. Place cake, rounded side up, on first cake. Frost side and top of cake with remaining frosting.
Serve immediately, or refrigerate until serving.