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Chocolate Toffee Layer 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 at room temperature
  • 4 cups powdered sugar
  • ¾ cup cocoa powder
  • 4 tablespoons heavy cream
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • pinch table salt

Decorations

  • 3 Heath Bars cut in half
  • 1 bag heath toffee bits

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 butter and sugar on medium-high speed 5 mins.
  • Add cocoa powder, vanilla and salt.
  • Add heavy cream a little at a time.
  • On high, beat 3-5 minutes or until mixture is fluffy.

Assembly

  • Lay one layer on cake plate.
  • Pipe on 1/3 the frosting. Sprinkle on heath.
  • Top with second layer.
  • Pipe on 1/3 of frosting. Sprinkle with heath.
  • Top with third layer and pipe on the rest. Decorate with candies.