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Coffee Cake: Caffe Borgia Cake

Source of Recipe


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List of Ingredients



• 1 cup (1/2 lb.) butter or margarine
  
• 3-1/3 cups sugar
  
• 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa
  
• 2 ounces unsweetened chocolate, melted
  
• 2 large eggs
  
• 1 cup sour cream
  
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
  
• 1-1/2 tsp baking powder
  
• About 2 cups all-purpose flour
  
• 1/3 cup orange-flavor liqueur
  






Instructions



1. In a bowl, beat 1 cup butter, 1-1/3 cups sugar, cocoa, and chocolate with a mixer until fluffy. Add eggs and sour cream. Beat until well-mixed.
   
   
2. Mix together soda, baking powder, and 2 cups flour. Stir into batter, then beat to blend well.
   
   
3. Butter and flour-dust a 10- to 12-cup tube pan. Scrape batter into pan and spread level. Bake in a 325-degree oven until cake just begins to pull from pan sides and center springs back when lightly pressed, about 1 hour.
   
   
4. Meanwhile, in a 1-1/2- to 2-quart pan over high heat, stir 2 cups sugar with 1 cup water until sugar dissolves. Remove syrup from heat and add liqueur.
   
   
5. Run a knife blade between cake and pan. Let cake cool in pan on a rack for about 10 minutes; invert cake onto rack, then tip cake back into pan. With a thin skewer, pierce cake to pan, making holes an inch apart. Slowly pour syrup over cake. Let cool about 1-1/2 hours.
   
   
6. Dip cake pan in hot water almost to rim; wipe pan dry. Invert cake onto a plate.
   
   Serve this with espresso-flavor whipped cream.
   
   






Final Comments


Caffe Borgia, chocolate-flavor coffee with whipped cream and orange peel, inspired this cake.