Description
An easy-to-make mega delicious blueberry chocolate cake with Rum and cream cheese!
Ingredients
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For the cake
- 1/3 cup bittersweet chocolate chips
- 3 ounces unsalted butter, diced
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1/3 cup granulated sugar
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 1/2 cup cake flour
- 3 tablespoons cocoa powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
For the frosting
- 12 ounces cream cheese
- 1 ounce unsalted butter, softened
- 1 1/2 teaspoons Rum
- 1 tablespoon blueberry syrup
- 2/3 cup powdered sugar
For Rum syrup
- 2 teaspoons Rum
- 1 tablespoon blueberry syrup
For garnishing
- fresh blueberries
- cocoa powder
- a pinch of powdered sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Mix milk, butter, chocolate chips and sugar in a large bowl. Microwave for 0.5-1 minute until butter is melted and sugar is dissolved well.
- Add egg, cake flour, baking soda, and cocoa powder to the chocolate mixture. Stir vigorously until smooth.
- Prepare your cake pans. Divide cake mixture evenly into 3 6″x6″x2″ prepared square cake pans.
- Bake for 9-10 minutes. Let the cake cool.
- While the cake is in the oven, make the frosting. Mix softened butter, cream cheese, blueberry syrup and Rum until smooth. Add powdered sugar and stir until creamy.
- To prepare Rum syrup, simply mix Rum and blueberry syrup in a small bowl.
- Place one layer of cake on a desired serving plate. Use a bread knife to cut the extra part if your cake is not flat.
- Apply Rum syrup on the cake by brushing it with a pastry brush.
- Spread a thick layer of frosting on the cake evenly.
- Gently place the second layer of cake on top and repeat step 9 and step 10.
- Do the same with the third layer of cake. If you want your cake to look a little fancy, before frosting the top layer, scoop the rest of the frosting into a Ziploc bag; press all air out, seal and cut a small hole at the corner end. Now it’s time to call for your creativity. Do whatever you want with the last step of frosting. (This is optional.)
- Sprinkle the frosted cake with cocoa powder; garnish with fresh blueberries; sprinkle a dash powdered sugar onto the blueberries. Serve!