Black velvet cake is often seen on people’s tables or at Halloween parties on Halloween.
This dark cake is rich in chocolate flavor and has a velvety texture that melts in your mouth.
People make or order this scary black velvet cake on Halloween, which is perfect for celebrating Halloween.
This black velvet cake is filled with cocoa buttercream inside, and the velvety, fluffy cake is made of chocolate.
It’s delicious!
The difference between red velvet and black velvet cake?
Everyone eats red velvet cake but have you ever had black velvet cake?
Do you know the difference between these two cakes? If not, I’m here!
A lot of food coloring and a small amount of cocoa powder are used to make red velvet cake red.
But making black velvet cake is different from red velvet cake because black velvet cake is filled with cocoa cream butter, and black cocoa and soft cake are made with chocolate. No food coloring is added to black velvet cake.
What makes a black velvet cake velvety?
The black velvet cake is filled with cocoa butter cream for a velvety finish. And the texture of this cake is also soft, all the design of the cake is black.
From what can be guessed, it is a velvet cake, There are many velvet cakes nowadays, and they are made of velvet according to their color and style. White velvet and red velvet are more popular.
The term velvet dates back to the 1800s when it was served at parties and royal banquets and has been called velvet ever since.
If you love to eat black velvet every week except Halloween, as I do, get into your kitchen now and learn how to make Black Velvet Cake with me!
Trust me, and you will make a delicious black velvet cake that will amaze everyone.
After learning this, you’ll never order black velvet cake from outside again.
Prepare time of black velvet cake
50 Minutes
Cook time of black velvet cake
40 Minutes
Serving
15 to 18 slices
Ingredients for making black velvet cake
One and a half grams of gram flour.
90 grams of black cocoa powder.
350 grams of coarse granulated sugar.
Two tablespoons of baking powder.
Three tablespoons of baking soda.
Salt half a teaspoon.
Three large eggs.
130 ml vegetable oil.
One teaspoon of vanilla extract.
250 grams of pure buttermilk.
Two spoons of coffee dissolved in one and a half cups of hot water.
For the black buttercream?
Eight tablespoons of powdered sugar.
255g unsalted butter at room temperature.
70 grams of black cocoa powder.
50 grams of cocoa powder unsweetened and natural.
Five teaspoons of vanilla extract.
Keep 7 to 8 tablespoons of milk at room temperature.
Salt to taste.
Three teaspoons of black food coloring.
Instructions for making Black velvet cake?
1- Preheat your oven to 360ºF.
2- Next, take two cake pans of about 6 inches and grease them with cooking oil, then fit the cake pans in the bottom with kitchen paper or parchment.
3- Place a pan on the stove, add the dry ingredients we have taken, and stir on low heat for about 1 minute; then add two eggs, vanilla extract, vegetable oil, and buttermilk and stir gently. Keep going on high heat. Till all these ingredients are mixed well
4- After mixing, to thin the mixture, slowly add the hot coffee water to the mixture and keep stirring the spoon over low heat for about 3 to 4 minutes. Now, this mixture will become thin.
5- Now pour this mixture into the cake pan fill the pan a little more than halfway and then bake both the cake pans in the oven for about 35 to 40 minutes.
6- Now after 35 minutes, check the cake with a toothpick to see if the inside is cooked. Remove the cake pan from the oven when a toothpick comes out clean.
And let the cake cool completely
Make the black buttercream for the black velvet cake.
- Place the butter in a bowl and mix with a mixer on low speed for 5 minutes until the butter is creamy.
- Then add the cocoa powder, sugar powder, salt, vanilla extract, and milk to the cream and beat the mixture quickly until all the ingredients are combined.
- After mixing all the ingredients, add the black cocoa powder, bring the mixer to high speed, and keep mixing for about 5 minutes; gradually, the mixture will turn dark black.
- Buttercream is ready to fill our Black Velvet Cake.
Final steps to make black velvet cake?
1- When the cakes are completely cooled, cut them into four pieces.
2- Now place a piece of cake on the cake-making plate and fill it with black buttercream, then place another piece of cake on this piece and fill it with buttercream in the same way.
Place all the cake pieces on top of each other and Fill them with black buttercream.
3- After filling, stack the outside of the cake with whole dark buttercream.
4- After that, keep the cake in the refrigerator for 25 to 30 minutes so that the cream sets in the cake and the cake hardens.
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Our delicious and beautiful black velvet cake is ready to serve.