Chocolate Praline Cake

Chocolate Praline Cake consists of a tender and moist barroom with plentifulness of cocoa spirit topped with a buttery Praline Icing with tons of chopped pecans. It’s casual to cook up successful a ample cookware and tin beryllium chopped into squares and served astatine a potluck.

Chocolate Praline Cake Recipe

This barroom consists of a tender cocoa barroom covered with a heavy furniture of buttery and affluent praline icing. It volition enactment moist and caller tasting for days. Warning: This is simply a wonderfully saccharine barroom suitable for lone those with a superior saccharine tooth.

We utilized to person a Mardi Gras enactment each twelvemonth and I ever made this barroom for it. People raved astir it. The barroom is brushed and tender, but not overly sweet. The icing…, good it IS precise sweet. It gives you a dense sweetener unreserved conscionable similar pralines do.

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And beryllium definite to effort this Chocolate Praline Cake. It’s guaranteed to go 1 of your precise favourite recipes. The operation of cocoa barroom and a heavy furniture of sugary, pecan icing can’t beryllium beat!

Recipe Note

It volition look similar you are adding excessively overmuch brownish sweetener successful this cake, but spot me, it is conscionable the close amount. This is really my precise favourite cocoa barroom batter and I besides usage it arsenic the basal for this Samoa Bundt Cake.

How To Store

Can beryllium stored astatine country somesthesia for 3 to 4 days, successful the refrigerator for 6 to 7 days, oregon frozen for up to 2 months.

More New Orleans-Inspired Recipes

• Praline Cream Cheese Pie
• Pecan Praline Cheesecake
• Praline Brownies
• Homemade Beignets
• Bananas Foster Cake
• Cinnamon-Pecan King Cake

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Chocolate Praline Cake

Chocolate Praline Cake combines a tender cocoa barroom with a buttery and affluent praline icing. Guaranteed to fulfill your saccharine tooth!

Course Dessert

Cuisine Southern

Keyword chocolate cake, Mardi Gras, New Orleans

Prep Time 20 minutes minutes

Cook Time 40 minutes minutes

Total Time 1 hour hour

Servings 18 servings

Calories 620kcal

Author Christin Mahrlig

Equipment

• Electric Stand Mixer
• 10×14-inch Baking Pan

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups semi-sweet cocoa chips
• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 1 (16-ounce) package light brownish sugar
• 3 large eggs
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspon salt
• 1 (8-ounce) container sour cream
• 1 cup hot water
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Icing

• 2 cups firmly packed brownish sugar
• 2/3 cup whipping cream
• 1/2 cup butter
• 2 cups powdered sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 cups toasted chopped pecans

Instructions

• Melt semi-sweet cocoa chips successful a microwave-safe vessel astatine 30-second intervals until smooth.
• Using an electrical mixer, bushed food and brownish sweetener for astir 5 minutes.
• Beat successful eggs, 1 astatine a time, beating conscionable until incorporated.
• Add melted cocoa and bushed conscionable until mixed in.
• Whisk unneurotic flour, baking soda and salt.
• Add flour substance to cocoa mixture, alternating with sour cream, and opening and ending with flour.
• With mixer connected low, gradually adhd blistery water. Add vanilla.
• Pour batter into a 10×14-inch cookware that has been lined with aluminum foil and sprayed with cooking spray. Bake astatine 350 degrees for 40 minutes, oregon until a toothpick inserted successful mediate comes retired clean.
• To marque icing, bring brownish sugar, whipping cream, and food to a boil successful a mean saucepan, stirring frequently. Boil 1 minute.
• Remove from vigor and whisk successful powdered sweetener and vanilla. Stir successful pecans.
• Let substance chill for astir 3 to 5 minutes and past determination connected apical of cake.
• Let chill wholly and past chopped into squares.

Notes

You tin usage 2 9-inch quadrate pans alternatively of a 10×14-inch pan.

Nutritional info is provided arsenic an estimation lone and volition alteration based connected brands oregon products used. Not to beryllium utilized for circumstantial dietary needs.

Nutrition

Calories: 620kcal | Carbohydrates: 83g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 31g | Saturated Fat: 14g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 4g | Monounsaturated Fat: 11g | Trans Fat: 0.4g | Cholesterol: 76mg | Sodium: 187mg | Potassium: 255mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 68g | Vitamin A: 583IU | Vitamin C: 0.3mg | Calcium: 88mg | Iron: 2mg

Recipe adapted from Southern Living

The station Chocolate Praline Cake appeared archetypal connected Spicy Southern Kitchen.