Mocha Three Layer Cake

There are some things that were just meant to go together - milk and coffee, Oreos and milk, peanut butter and jelly, coffee and chocolate.  OK, so maybe that last one doesn't seem so obvious but in my world, they're a match made in heaven.  A dark chocolate cake infused with a rich coffee flavor is hard to beat.  This three layer cake is really delicious and even non coffee lovers really like this moist, tender cake.

I turned this particular cake into a birthday cake for a fourteen year old soccer player.  No matter how you decorate it, a mocha chocolate cake will not disappoint.

Mocha Three Layer Cake
1 cup butter                 
3 cups brown sugar                   
4 eggs                  
3 teaspoons vanilla
¾ cup cocoa    
3 cups flour                   
3 teaspoons baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
1 ½ cups brewed coffee
1 1/3 cups sour cream

Cream butter and sugar.

Add eggs, one at a time.  Stir in vanilla.

​Add dry ingredients, alternating with sour cream and coffee.

Pour into 3 greased cake pans.

Bake 35 minutes at 350.  

​rost and decorate.  You could go for a triple chocolate threat and fill this cake with chocolate ganache and frost it with chocolate buttercream.  I filled my cake with a whipped cream filling and frosting it with swiss meringue buttercream.  

Ciao!

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