Q: <strong>Can you taste the coffee in the chocolate cake recipe?</strong>

Many of our rich chocolate cake recipes ( scratch chocolate cake , fudge cake , devil's food cake ) call for hot coffee or espresso. Most people cannot detect the coffee in chocolate cake recipes. It serves to enhance the recipe, and the hot temperature helps to develop the deep cocoa flavor. If you do not want to use hot coffee, you can substitute with hot water.

Question 1

What is the Texture of this Chocolate Bundt Cake?

Accepted Answer

This decadent chocolate bundt cake has a soft texture with a fine crumb.

Question 2

Can you taste the coffee in the chocolate cake recipe?

Accepted Answer

Many of our rich chocolate cake recipes (scratch chocolate cake, fudge cake, devil's food cake) call for hot coffee or espresso.

Most people cannot detect the coffee in chocolate cake recipes. It serves to enhance the recipe, and the hot temperature helps to develop the deep cocoa flavor.

If you do not want to use hot coffee, you can substitute with hot water.

Question 3

Can Chocolate Bundt Cake be Frozen?

Accepted Answer

Yes, just as with most of our cakes (from strawberry bundt cake, to buttermilk pound cake, lemon bundt cake and more) this chocolate bundt cake can be made in advance, wrapped, and frozen for up to three months!

To freeze the bundt cake, bake and allow to cool to room temperature (or slightly warm).

Then, place on a foil-wrapped cake cardboard (for extra support), and wrap tightly with plastic wrap followed by aluminum foil.

Since bundt cakes and pound cakes are larger than cake layers, they take hours to thaw. For this reason, prefer to move bundt cakes (still wrapped) from the freezer to the refrigerator the day before we need them.

The next morning, move to the kitchen counter and continue to thaw. Then decorate as usual.

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