Drumstick Cake

Drumstick Cake

Remember those delicious Nestle Drumstick Ice Cream Cones? This cake is a play on that cone…just bigger and better with the same great flavors! It starts with a rich 3 layer chocolate cake filled with irresistible vanilla frosting. Chocolate ganache runs down the side and peanut butter rosettes stand tall on top. Of course, it wouldn’t be a drumstick cake without the traditional chocolate dipped peanut cone on top!

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Drumstick Cake

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Ingredients

  

Cake

• ¾ cup unsweetened dark cocoa powder
• 1 cup boiling water
• ½ cup + 2 Tablespoons soft butter
• 2 cups sugar
• 3 eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1¾ cups all-purpose flour
• 1½ tsp baking soda
• ¼ tsp salt
• ¾ cup whole milk
• ¼ cup sour cream

Frosting

• 1 ½ cups butter
• 1 ½ cups shortening
• 9 cups powdered sugar
• 1 ½ T. vanilla
• 7-8 T. milk

Garnish

• one sugar cone dipped in melted chocolate and sprinkled with chopped peanuts
• peanut butter for piping
• 1 cup chopped peanuts roasted/salted

Drip Glaze

• 9 oz semi-sweet chocolate chips
• ¾ cup heavy cream

Instructions

 

Cake

• Preheat oven to 350°F
• Spray 3 8-inch round baking pans with pam, line bottoms with parchment paper, grease again and set aside.
• In small bowl combine cocoa and boiling water with a whisk until smooth. Cool.
• In medium bowl stir together flour, baking soda and salt.
• In a mixer, beat butter and sugar until fluffy.
• Add eggs, one at a time and vanilla.
• Slowly add the cocoa mix.
• Add ⅓ of the flour mix, then the milk. Then ⅓ of flour and the sour cream. Then, add the past of the flour.
• Mix well and divide into the pans.
• Bake 28-30 mins until the toothpick comes out clean.
• Cool and pop out of pans. Remove parchment . (cool and at this point you can freeze)

Frosting

• Beat all gradually on low to combine.
• Then increase mixer speed and whip till fluffy.

Glaze

• Heat cream just to a boil.
• Pour over chips.
• Let sit one minute then stir smooth

Assembly

• Spread frosting between cake layers.
• Use extra to frost outside of the cake.
• Decorate with the glaze by pouring it on sides to drizzle down and fill in entire top center.
• Pipe on peanut butter rosettes and garnish the cone and extra peanuts.
• **May need to make and extra half batch of frosting for decorating and final coat depending how much you use on your layers.

Frosting adapted from Life, Love and Sugar