Cuban Espresso Dark Chocolate Cake with Salted Dulce de Leche Buttercream
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LOVE your recipe and want to make it for my friend’s birthday this Friday! Where do you buy meringue powder?
Meringue Powder is available on the cake decorating aisle at WalMart, Target, Michaels, Joanne’s, etc. The most readily available brand is Wilton and is packaged in small & large cans. If you can’t find it, the buttercream will work just fine without it. Meringue powder simply allows the buttercream to harden/set/crust.
Amy your cake looks gorgeous and sounds devine!!!
Thank you! That’s actually the one my 11 year old made for 4-H. He’s become quite the cake decorator!
Can I make it into cupcakes?
i love this recipe!
Sounds and looks amazing!!! I cannot wait to try it. Your son is a fantastic baker.
Hi. I love love love this cake and want very much to make it. I am very new to baking and certainly nothing this fancy! would you please tell me what you use to create the beautiful design on top and on the side of the cake? would you post photos? I’ve never done this and so as much detail about the tool you and provide would very much help me. Thank you and thank you for sharing your beautiful and I’m sure delicious cake recipe! I cannot wait to make it. I want to make pretty like yours. You are more than welcome to send the photos to my email address provided below. Thank you!
Definitely not a high altitude recipe
Where can I buy this cake in. Us?
Where can I buy this cake
You can’t buy it. It’s a recipe you make for yourself.
Can we make this with regular chocolate instead of dark chocolate? Asking cuz personally I prefer regular over dark chocolate, if its alright I hope you can answer quickly I might make this for a project!!!
Yes, regular cocoa will work just fine
Amy – please adjust the amounts for liquids – 1.5 c of milk and 1.5 c of strong coffee is too much liquid and makes a very thin batter, had to throw out the first batter I made and start over. Found that 3/4 c of milk and 3/4 c strong coffee worked. It raised a lot of money for a school fundraiser auction
I’m sorry. This is exactly as I make it and while it is a very thin batter, the end result is a super moist cake. I’ve made a lot of money with this recipe and I think it’s perfect the way it is. Please feel free to adjust it as you see fit.