Luxurious Chocolate Cake with Lemon Curd
Three-layer chocolate cake with melted butter base, topped with lemon curd cream filling and fluffy chocolate frosting. Requires overnight chilling between assembly stages. Finished with ground chocolate or Malteser garnish for texture contrast.
Ingredients
- 11 tbsp salted butter
- 2 st eggs
- 1 ¼ cups sugar
- 1 ¼ cups flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 11 tbsp cocoa
- 1 tsp vanilla powder
- 10 tbsp hot water
- 1 ¾ cups cream
- 14 tbsp lemon curd
- 7 tbsp salted butter, room temperature
- ⅝ cups cream cheese
- 5 ½ oz Nutella
- ⅓ cups powdered sugar
- 2 ¾ tbsp cocoa
- 7 tbsp cream
- ground chocolate or Malteser(optional)
Instructions
- 1
Set oven to 350°F.
- 2
Butter a 7.75" diameter baking pan.
- 3
Assemble mixer with beater bowl and cookie whisks.
- 4
Melt the salted butter in a saucepan.
- 5
Whisk the eggs in the beater bowl and add the melted butter.
- 6
Mix the dry ingredients and add to the batter.
- 7
Add the hot water and blend until combined.
- 8
Bake for 25-30 minutes.
- 9
Cool completely and refrigerate the cake.
- 10
Divide the cold cake into three layers.
- 11
Assemble mixer with beater bowl and balloon whisks.
- 12
Whisk the cream and fold in the lemon curd.
- 13
Stack the cake layers with lemon curd cream between them.
- 14
Refrigerate overnight.
- 15
Assemble mixer with beater bowl and cookie whisks.
- 16
Mix cocoa, powdered sugar, Nutella, and room temperature butter to a fluffy batter.
- 17
Whisk the cream separately and fold into the chocolate batter.
- 18
Cover the cake with chocolate cream frosting.
- 19
Decorate with ground chocolate or Malteser.
Tips
Ensure cake is completely frozen before slicing into three layers for clean cuts.
Overnight refrigeration is essential for proper structure and flavor melding.
Fold cream gently into chocolate batter to maintain airiness in frosting.
Good to Know
Refrigerate covered up to 3 days. Freezes well up to 1 month without decoration.
Bake cake and chill 1 day ahead. Assemble and frost up to 8 hours before serving.
Serve chilled or at room temperature. Slice with warm knife for clean edges.
Common Mistakes
Skip overnight chilling to avoid structural collapse when frosting.
Overmix frosting to prevent deflation of whipped cream.
Add hot water all at once to prevent batter curdling.