Description
Caramel cake delivers a luxurious Southern dessert experience with rich, golden layers of silky sweetness. Sweet memories of grandmother’s kitchen emerge as each forkful melts into a perfect balance of buttery cake and deep caramel notes you’ll treasure.
Ingredients
Scale
Main Ingredients:
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 1¾ cups (220 grams) all-purpose flour
- 1 cup (240 milliliters) milk
- 1 cup (240 milliliters) brewed coffee, cooled
- 2 eggs
Dry Ingredients:
- ¾ cup (75 grams) unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1½ teaspoons baking powder
- 1½ teaspoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Pinch of salt
Liquid and Filling Ingredients:
- ½ cup (120 milliliters) vegetable oil
- 1 jar caramel sauce (12.25 ounces / 347 grams)
- 1 can sweetened condensed milk (14 ounces / 397 grams)
Garnish:
- Chocolate sauce
Instructions
- Thoroughly mix all dry ingredients in a spacious mixing bowl, creating a uniform flour-cocoa base with balanced dry components.
- Incorporate wet ingredients into the dry mixture, blending with an electric mixer at medium velocity for 2-3 minutes until a smooth, liquid-like batter emerges.
- Gently fold coffee into the batter, noting its thin consistency will spread effortlessly in the baking vessel.
- Transfer the batter into a prepared 9×13 inch baking dish, carefully smoothing the surface to ensure even distribution.
- Position the cake in a preheated oven at 350°F, allowing it to bake for approximately 35-40 minutes until a inserted toothpick emerges pristine.
- After removing from the oven, let the cake settle and slightly cool, delicately pressing the center if any uneven surfaces remain.
- Create multiple punctures across the cake’s surface using a wooden spoon handle, generating pathways for caramel absorption.
- Combine caramel sauce with condensed milk, creating a rich, decadent mixture.
- Methodically pour the caramel blend over the cake, ensuring complete penetration through the strategically created holes.
- Refrigerate the dessert for a minimum of 4 hours, allowing flavors to meld and texture to set.
- Prior to serving, drizzle chocolate sauce across the top for an additional layer of indulgence.
Notes
- Master the art of creating a rich, moist chocolate cake that’s infused with luscious caramel throughout every single bite.
- Coffee adds depth and intensifies the chocolate flavor, making this dessert unexpectedly complex and sophisticated.
- Poking holes allows the caramel mixture to penetrate deeply, transforming an ordinary cake into a decadent, ultra-moist treat.
- Refrigeration is crucial for allowing caramel to set and flavors to meld, ensuring each slice is perfectly saturated and indulgent.
- Serve chilled for the best texture and most intense caramel-chocolate experience that will impress even the most discerning dessert lovers.
- Prepare ahead of time as this cake requires at least 4 hours of chilling to reach its ultimate creamy, dreamy potential.
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 40 minutes
- Category: Desserts
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 12
- Calories: 480
- Sugar: 55g
- Sodium: 300mg
- Fat: 20g
- Saturated Fat: 3.5g
- Unsaturated Fat: 16g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 64g
- Fiber: 2g
- Protein: 6g
- Cholesterol: 30mg