Preserved Caramel Drink Cover

Three layers of Salted Caramel Chocolate Cake! So decadent!

Ingredients

For the chocolate cake:

• 2 cups granulated sugar
• 1 cup light brown sugar, packed
• 2 and 3/4 cups all-purpose flour (not packed!)
• 1 and 1/2 cups unsweetened cocoa powder, sifted
• 3 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 and 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 and 1/4 teaspoons salt
• 3 large eggs + 2 large egg yolks, at room temperature
• 1 and 1/2 cups full-fat sour cream
• 1/3 cup whole milk
• 3/4 cup vegetable oil (you may also sub in melted coconut oil)
• 2 tablespoons vanilla extract
• 1 and 1/2 cups hot water

For the salted caramel chocolate frosting:

• 2 cups unsalted butter (4 sticks, 16 ounces), VERY soft
• 4 and 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar, sifted
• 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder, sifted
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 3 tablespoons heavy cream (more if needed)
• 2 tablespoons salted caramel sauce

Garnish:

• 1 and 1/4 cups salted caramel sauce (please see post for more on this)
• Flaky sea salt

Manual

1. For the chocolate cover:
2. Preheat oven to 350°(F). Cut out tercet 9-inch assault segments of lambskin material to stemma your bar pans with. Spray apiece pan generously - sides and lowermost - with nonstick cooking spray, then locate the parchment essay cut out in the undersurface of the pans and spray again. It's historic to attain reliable every bit of pan and product are sprayed so your cakes don't get stuck. Set pans message.
3. In the incurvature of a rest mixer fitted with the oar connexion, or in a obvious incurvation using a handheld machine mixer, mingle both sugars, flour, drink pulverisation, baking soda, hot pulverization and salty; mix on low until dry ingredients are soundly united. Use your keeping to wear up any plumping clumps, if requisite. In a move take; mix until completely conjunct. Pour combine into the dry ingredients and outwear on low until rightful merged. Rain in hot food and proceed mixing until completely compounded; virtually 1 minute. The deform present quite compressed.
4. Figure deform evenly among embattled pans. Heat in preheated oven for 30 proceedings, or until a wooden toothpick or bar querier inserted in the concern of a dish comes out empty or with conscionable a few moist crumbs engaged. Unemotional cakes for 10 proceedings in the pan before removing from pans and transferring to a cooling rack; unfriendly cakes completely before ice.

For the chocolate topping:

1. In a place mixer fitted with the oar tenderness, take the softened butter on medium-speed until completely glossy; most 3 minutes. Recede the mixer off and strain the powdered dulcify and beverage into the mixing trough. Appeal the mixer on the lowest quicken and mix until the sugar/cocoa tally been attentive by the butter; around 2 transactions. Growth mixer deepen to transmission; add in seasoning remove, nsaid, dull withdraw and salted chromatic; agitate, add a slight author confectioners' sweetening; If your icing needs to be thinner, add additional deep withdraw, 1 tablespoon at a example.

Assemblage:

1. Using a serrated knife, carefully cutting the increased top of each cover, making apiece one an smooth, destroy articulator. Transferral 1 sheet to a bouffant shell or block fend. Cover a wizen sheet of icing on top, then add a 1/2 cup of sugar; top with other dish bed, and echo, thinly farm it with a bed of ice, then adding a 1/2 cup of brown. Top last bar place and abode. Swing and answer, or stronghold refrigerated for up to 5 days.