Polish Black Cake
From midgelet 15 years ago
- 30 minutes to make
- Serves 12
My Polish girlfriend made this wonderful cake called Murzynek, a moist delightful layered chocolate cake. Although there are many versions, hers was a chocolate cake filled with a rich buttercream filling and icing. Read more She translated the recipe into English . However, after looking at her recipe, I changed it a bit by adding more baking cocoa, a bit more butter and less eggs and it came out just as great! One can use any liquer cake glaze and their favorite buttercream icing. I happened to have pans suitable for Valentines day and thus the heart shaped top and garnishes. However next time I would standard pans and frost the whole thing for a more elegant look See less
Ingredients
- Cake: shopping list
- 2 cups flour shopping list
- 2 cups sugar shopping list
- 1/2 cup baking cocoa( European dark ) shopping list
- 2 tsp baking powder shopping list
- 10 Tbs very softened butter shopping list
- 3 eggs room temperature shopping list
- 2 tsp vanilla shopping list
- 1 cup milk ( I use skim - all I ever use ) room temperature shopping list
- Glaze: shopping list
- 1 cup water heated shopping list
- 3 Tbs rum shopping list
- 2 Tbs sugar shopping list
- 1 tsp vanilla or cream flavor shopping list
- buttercream:Use your favorite recipe shopping list
- Garnish: chocolate curls, choclate shavings etc etc shopping list
How to make it
- Cake:
- Sift all the dry ingredients in a bowl
- Make a well in the center and add the egg, milk and butter
- Beat at low speed with electric mixer to blend and then at medium speed until mixture is blended and smooth.
- Alternatly one may also cream butter and sugar, add eggs and blend into dry ingredients with additions of the milk.
- Butter 2, 9 inch cake pans very well
- Divide batter into the pans
- BAke in a 350 oven center rack until cake is tested done, about 30 minutes
- Cool on rack about 10 to 15 minutes and invert cake layers to cool on racks
- When cool, I chill layers or partially freeze for easy splitting.
- Meanwhile make glaze by combining ingrdients to dissolve sugar and combinin g ingerdients.
- Set aside
- Make your favorite buttercream icing and set aside
- Split each layer in half
- Drizzle or gently brush soaking liquid onto layers
- Fill and frost as desired.
- Garnish as desired
- Note: I used a set of pans that have a heart shaped top layer.So I
- did not want to completely frost the top
- Otherwise I would have then garnised with chocolate shavings
- Options: often the cakes may have a cherry filling along with the liquer glaze
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A beauty of a cake!
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