Too-Easy Chocolate Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting
Serves
16
Preparation
30
minutesIngredients
2 2 x round store-bought chocolate cakes
Salted caramel sauce, to drizzle
Figs and grapes, to garnish
Lilies, dahlia buds, dusty miller and greenery, to decorate (decoration only, not for consumption)
1 1 quantity of cream cheese frosting (see recipe, below)
- Cream cheese frosting
2 2 x 250g block cream cheese, chopped, softened
1½ cups 1½ icing sugar mixture, sifted
Method
- Use a serrated knife to trim off domed tops of homemade cakes and any icing that may be on a store-bought cake (or leave it on for extra flavour), then slice cakes in half across-ways.
- Place a cake half on a cake stand. Spread ½ cup frosting over the top, then continue layering with cake and frosting, finishing with a layer of cake. Keep top layer flat. Spread remaining frosting over the top and sides of cake to cover.
- Drizzle cake with caramel sauce. Garnish with fruit, and decorate with flowers and greenery. Serve.
- Cream cheese frosting
- To make cream cheese frosting, put cheese into a large bowl and beat with an electric hand beater on medium speed until smooth. Add half of the icing sugar and beat on low until combined. Add remaining icing sugar and beat again on low speed until incorporated, then increase speed to high and beat until light and fluffy.
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