Coffee always tastes yummy with chocolate (unless you don't like one of these things). My niece and I decided to make this cake for my sister's birthday. We followed this recipe exactly--except we didn't have cake flour or buttermilk, and we didn't use the frosting recipe. Ok, so, this was a guide for what we did.
We used 4tbsp corn starch plus however all-purpose flour it took to add up to 2 cups. I didn't have my normal powdered buttermilk in the fridge, so I went to my back up plan of using 1tbsp vinegar +however much milk it takes to equal one cup to make sour milk, a good substitute for buttermilk. Oops, I've lived here 3 years and still haven't purchased any vinegar! Of any kind! How is that possible? It's 11pm, I am not willing to go out. Thankfully, I had a lemon, so I used the juice of one lemon plus enough milk to equal 1 cup for my buttermilk substitute. I tested this cake 5 minutes early and it was done; my oven tends to run true to temp so be aware if you bake it.
Oh, also I didn't have espresso powder so I just brewed a wicked strong cup of coffee. I improvised with this one more than I realized!
Maddy and I decided this cake had a REALLY strong mocha flavor so we opted against this frosting. We used a recipe that I can't seem to find now, but if I recall it was 9 oz cream cheese, 2 tbsp whipped cream, a stick of butter, and several cups of confectioners sugar...5 cups maybe?
The results were delicious:
We think we did a lovely job. Happy Birthday, Amy!
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