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Mirror Glazed Chocolate Layer Cake

Ingredients
  

  • 1 ¾ c. flour
  • ¾ cup unsweet. cocoa powder
  • 1 ½ tsp baking powder
  • 1 ½ tsp baking soda
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 cup milk
  • ½ cup canola
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 cup boiling water

Frosting

  • 3 sticks butter
  • 5 c. powdered sugar
  • 1 cup cocoa powder unsweetened
  • ½ cup milk
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract

Mirror Glaze

  • 2 ½ T. cold water
  • 4 tsp gelatin powder
  • cup water
  • cup heavy cream
  • 1 cup cocoa powder unsweetened and sifted
  • 1 cup + 2 T. sugar

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 350°F
  • Grease two 9" cake pans with Pam, line with parchment and grease again.
  • Sift flour, cocoa, baking powder and baking soda into a large bowl.
  • Add sugar and salt.
  • Whisk in eggs, milk, oil and vanilla by hand.
  • Add water.
  • Divide into pans and bake approx 35-38 mins until cake tester comes out clean.
  • Let cool -then freeze so frosting the layers will be easier.
  • Layer the cakes with frosting between and frost the entire cake.
  • Place cake in refrigerator a few hours or overnight.

Glaze

  • Place the 2 1/2T. water in a small bowl. Then add in the gelatin and stir to combine. Let sit 5 mins.
  • (IT will seem like rubber.)
  • Whisk cocoa and water together in a saucepan.
  • Slowly add cream and sugar: Gently mix with a rubber spatula, not a whisk.
  • Turn stove to medium high and heat this to a boil stirring gently.
  • Once boiling, remove heat and add in the gelatin-stir slowly to dissolve it.
  • Pour this through a trainer into a glass bowl to remove air bubbles.
  • Press plastic wrap on surface and cool about 2 hours until 86 degrees.
  • Strain it once more at this point.
  • Place the cake on a cooling rack over a jellyroll pan to catch the excess glaze.
  • Pour glaze on top of your chilled cake.
  • Let set and enjoy!
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