Dulce de Leche Chocolate Spice Cake has a distinct and indulgent flavor.
Last month when I went to my nearest supermarket, I saw some interesting flavors of SMOOR’s Chocolate. And after a lot of confusion I bought 55% Dark, Cranberry and STAR ANISE spice Chocolate.
I have tasted cinnamon and nutmeg with chocolate but not star anise! So I was like “How will star anise chocolate taste??” After a little hesitation, I tasted star anise chocolate, then I realized its such a delicious flavor. I decided to make a chocolate spice cake with star anise and nutmeg.
Before I have made an Orange Star Anise Pound Cake. That’s the first time, I used star anise in a cake. Everyone in my home loved it so much. Check out the recipe here.
Coming back to the recipe, made layers of chocolate cake spiced with star anise and nutmeg. Filled and Frosted with Dulce de Leche Whipped Cream.
Dulce de Leche is an interesting flavor like caramel. You can make it in Pressure cooker very easily. For detailed step by step procedure, click here.
This is my first Bake for December. Its being a season for Christmas and I am so glad I joined with many other fellow Bakers in “BAKE-A-THON 2018”. Bakeathon is a challenge that’s hosted by Sri Valli who blogs at cooking4allseasons.
This Challenge is done in the month of December every year where we share 3 baked recipes each week. 13 recipes this year. And you can check the link below the recipe to know what fellow bakers are baking.
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Dulce de Leche Chocolate Spice Cake
Ingredients
- 195 g (1 + 1/2 cup) All Purpose Flour
- 45 g (3/4 cup) Cocoa Powder
- 1/4 tsp Salt
- 1/2 tsp Baking Soda
- 1 tsp Baking Powder
- 135 g (3/4 cup) Castor Sugar
- 120 g (3/4 cup) Brown Sugar
- 3/4 cup Oil
- 2 Eggs
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
- 3/4 cup Milk
- 1 tsp Vinegar
- 1/4 tsp Nutmeg Powder
- 1 tsp Star Anise Powder
For Frosting:
- 1/2 cup Dulce de leche extra for dripping
- 1 cup Whipping Cream
Instructions
- Prepare 2- 7" round pans by applying butter and parchment paper. Preheat Oven to 200 C for 20 min.
- Measure and sift flour, cocoa, salt, baking powder and soda with the spices and set aside.
- Mix Milk and vinegar in a bowl and let it sit for 2 min.
- In another bowl, whisk oil and sugars till creamy.
- Mix in Eggs one at time. Add in Vanilla Extract.
- Add in Milk and dry ingredients alternatively by starting and ending with dry.
- Pour it in the pans and bake for 30-40 min until toothpick inserted comes out clean.
- Let the cake cool down completely before applying cream.
For the Cream:
- In a large bowl, add the cream and dulce de leche.
- Using an electric beater, start beating at low speed till foamy.
- Then beat at high speed till stiff peaks.
- Refrigerate the cream till required.
For Assembling the Cake:
- Slice the top layer of the cake to make it flat.
- Add in the dollops of cream and spread it evenly.
- Frost the cake with the cream. Using a star nozzle in a piping bag decorate the top.
- Using a piping bag without any nozzle, cut the edges with a small whole and make the drip of dulce de leche.
- Refrigerate the cake for atleast 1 hour, before serving.
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Wow that’s one fantastic cake you got there..with so many new spice flavours..awesome!
Omg, cake looks absolutely sinful. What a fantabulous cake and what a prefection. You are tremendous Sharmila. A prefect cake for a celebration.
That is such a beautiful cake. I am yet to discover spiced chocolate. This one with star anise and nutmeg sounds so interesting.
I too have never tried star anise in a cake and would love to try this as I love cakes with cinnamon and nutmeg. The cake, the frosting looks so so yum. Awesome start for the Bakeathon
Star anise adds such an awesome flavor to bakes. Lovely cake beautifully decorated.
I have tried almost all spices except star anise in baking… I know it is used in a lot of sweet dishes in the levant region… Love the DDL frosting… I am sure that whole cake was such a treat!
Wow, that is such a flavor packed cake Sharmila and those spice flavored chocolates sound absolutely delicious. I love dulche de leche on anything and that frosting looks amazing.
Absolutely gorgeous looking cake.with all those spices and dulce de leche frosting the cake would have tasted divine.Stunning clicks
Oh , I am drooling over the cake , it looks very sinful and stunning !The new chocolate flavours look awesome too .
Dulche de leche in itself is good enough to make you drool and by introducing a unique flavor of star anise in the cake you have made it all the more desirable. A very sweet and toothsome share Sharmila.
Such a unique ingredient to go on with the cake!! And with that Dulce de leche frosting sure got my tastebuds tickling!!
a stunning piece of art, and the frosting is to die for sweet tooth people 🙂 so glad you could join us for this bakeathon 🙂
Oh delicious, i can almost feel the aroma of this spiced cake!!! Love the dripping dulce-de-leche!!! Very tempting cake!
Beautiful bake.. nutmeg and star anise must have made the cake so aromatic!! Loved the pics
Wow cake looks gerogous and tempting. Beautiful clicks.With all the spices to cake would have tasted delicious .
wow….beautiful cake, beautifully captured and this is bookmarked
star anise is one of my all time favorite spices – I am sure this tastes as delicious as it looks!
That is one gorgeous looking and flavor filled cake you got there.
Now that is one stunning piece of cake art! I love the stunning picture and the use of star anise is new to me something that I need to try.
That is a stunning cake! Dulce de leche by itself is so delicious and adding spiced chocolate makes it heavenly!The first pic looks so good!!