Black and White Cake

Recipe created by SheKnows on Sep 27, 2010
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Prep: –
Cook Time: 50 min
Total: 50 min
Serving: Makes 1 cake

This black and white cake is the perfect mouthwatering merge between chocolate and vanilla. As a bonus, black and white desserts showcase perfectly for black tie events or other elegant evening affairs. Serve them at your next evening soiree.

Ingredients

2 cups brown sugar
1 stick unsalted butter
3 eggs, at room temperature
1, 1-ounce square unsweetened chocolate, melted
2 1/2 cups cake flour, sifted
3/4 cup buttermilk
1 teaspoon baking soda, diluted with 3/4 cup ice water
1 teaspoon vanilla
3/4 stick unsalted butter
1, 1-ounce square unsweetened chocolate
2 cups confectioners’ sugar
Cream or milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Few drops of pure almond extract
1/2 cup pecans
1 egg white
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 tablespoon ice water
1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
Pinch of salt
1/4 teaspoon vanilla (optional)

Directions

To make the cake, beat together brown sugar, butter, and eggs in a bowl until creamy. Mix in melted chocolate. Gradually add in flour, buttermilk, diluted baking soda, and vanilla.
Pour mixture into a 9 x 13-inch floured baking pan and place in a cold oven. Begin heating oven to 350 degrees F. Bake 40 to 50 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean.
In a small pan over low heat, combine ingredients for chocolate icing using enough cream to reach a spreadable consistency. Remove from heat. Combine ingredients for white icing in a double boiler, heat and stir until smooth and spreadable. Beat white icing mixture until it is fluffy.
Invert cake onto a square cake board or plate and spread both icings over cake in a black and white design of your choice.