Best 4 Chocolate Scotch Whiskey Cake Recipes

SCOTCH CAKE

Steps:

• 1. Sift flour and sugar in a large bowl.
• 2. In a saucepan, bring margarine, shortening, water, and cocoa to a good boil.
• 3. Pour over flour and sugar mixture.
• 4. Add remaining ingredients and mix well.
• 5. Pour into a greased 13x9 pan.
• 6. Bake in pre-heated oven at 350 degrees for 40-50 minutes or until cake tests done.
• 7. Start making icing about 5 minutes before cake is done baking.
• 8. Bring margarine, cocoa, and milk to a boil in a medium saucepan.
• 9. Remove from heat and beat in remaining ingredients.
• 10. Pour icing over hot cake.

CHOCOLATE WHISKEY CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 325 degrees. Butter a 10-inch springform pan. Dust with 2 tablespoons cocoa powder.
• In a medium saucepan over low heat, warm coffee, Irish whiskey, 12 tablespoons butter and remaining cocoa powder, whisking occasionally, until butter is melted. Whisk in sugars until dissolved. Remove from heat and cool completely.
• In a bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, salt, pepper and cloves. In another bowl, whisk together eggs and vanilla. Slowly whisk egg mixture into chocolate mixture. Add dry ingredients and whisk to combine. Fold in chocolate chips.
• Pour batter into prepared pan. Transfer to oven and bake until a toothpick inserted in the center emerges clean, 55 to 65 minutes. Let cool on a wire rack, then remove sides of pan. Dust with powdered sugar before serving, if you like.

CHOCOLATE WHISKEY BUNDT CAKE

Steps:

• Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 325°F. Butter bundt pan well, then dust with 3 tablespoons cocoa powder, knocking out excess.
• Heat coffee, whiskey, butter, and remaining cup cocoa powder in a 3-quart heavy saucepan over moderate heat, whisking, until butter is melted. Remove from heat, then add sugar and whisk until dissolved, about 1 minute. Transfer mixture to a large bowl and cool 5 minutes.
• While chocolate mixture cools, whisk together flour, baking soda, and salt in a bowl. Whisk together eggs and vanilla in a small bowl, then whisk into cooled chocolate mixture until combined well. Add flour mixture and whisk until just combined (batter will be thin and bubbly). Pour batter into bundt pan and bake until a wooden pick or skewer inserted in center comes out clean, 40 to 50 minutes.
• Cool cake completely in pan on a rack, about 2 hours. Loosen cake from pan using tip of a dinner knife, then invert rack over pan and turn cake out onto rack.

SCOTCH CHOCOLATE CAKE

Steps:

• For cake: Sift together the flour and sugar into a large bowl.
• Combine the butter, cocoa and water in a saucepan; bring to a boil, stirring to dissolve the cocoa and melt the butter.
• Add cocoa mixture to the flour mixture and mix well with a wooden spoon.
• In a bowl combine the buttermilk, cinnamon, baking soda, eggs and vanilla; mixing well.
• Add buttermilk mixture to the flour/cocoa mixture.
• Beat until well blended (batter will be thin).
• Pour into a greased and floured 13x9 baking pan and bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for 30 minutes or until cake tests done with a toothpick inserted in the center (if done the toothpick will come out clean).
• Spread icing over hot cake in pan.
• For icing: Combine the butter, cocoa and milk in a saucepan and bring to a boil; stirring until butter is melted and cocoa is dissolved.
• Remove from heat and stir in vanilla and powdered sugar mixing well then add pecans and mix.