How to Make a Portal Cake - Requested by Daviela - The Cake Is A Lie

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I make a Portal cake which Daviela requested. Thanks for the request! I used my Hunger Games Capitol Grade Chocolate Cake recipe for the cake.

After you prepare the cake, apply chocolate shavings to the top and sides of the cake. Add on eight swirls of whipped cream and top with maraschino cherries. One more swirl in the middle of the cake and add a candle in the middle, and you get the cake that is normally a lie, but not in this case!!

Cake:

2 cups all-purpose flour
2 cups white sugar
1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
2 eggs
1 cup cold brewed coffee
1 cup buttermilk
½ cup vegetable oil

Icing:

1 cup butter (no substitutes), softened
4-1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
1-1/4 cups fine-quality unsweetened cocoa powder
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup milk

Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease and flour a 9" x13" pan.

In a large bowl, sift together the flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Make a well in the center and pour in the eggs, coffee, buttermilk, and oil. Mix with a wooden spoon until smooth; batter will be thin. Pour into prepared pan.

Bake for 35–40 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Allow to cool in the pan for 45 minutes.

While cake cools, prepare the icing. In a stand mixer with a paddle attachment on medium speed or using a wooden spoon and lots of muscle, beat butter until smooth and creamy. Reduce speed to low and add confectioners' sugar, cocoa, and vanilla, scraping down sides of the bowl with a spatula as you go. Add milk as needed until frosting reaches preferred spreading consistency. (For thicker frosting, add less than a cup of milk. To thin out your frosting, add more milk. The choice is yours!)

Once cake has thoroughly cooled, spread icing over the top.


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