Butterscotch CAKE

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Chocolate chip butterscotch cake is a vanilla cake with chocolate chips, chocolate ganache frosting & homemade butterscotch sauce!

unsalted butter canola oil granulated sugar light brown sugar Vanilla eggs, room temperature cake flour salt baking powder buttermilk mini chocolate chips

Ingredients

cake

unsalted butter light brown sugar heavy cream vanilla salt

BUTTERSCOTCH

FROSTING

heavy cream bittersweet chocolate chips unsalted butter powdered sugar cocoa powder vanilla salt

STEP 1: For the cake, whisk butter, oil, granulated sugar, & light brown sugar. Add vanilla & eggs & beat.

STEP 2: Combine flour, salt & baking powder. Add flour mixture into butter mixture, alternating with buttermilk. Beat until flour is fully incorporated.

STEP 3: Mix 1 Tbsp flour with chocolate chips & fold into batter. Pour batter in four 6-in pans & bake at 350F for 30 min. Remove from pans & let cool.

STEP 4: For butterscotch, melt butter on the stove. Add sugar & heavy cream & mix until everything is fully combined.

STEP 5: Bring mixture to a boil, lower heat to low-medium for 4 min. Remove from heat & stir in vanilla & salt. Cover & allow to cool.

STEP 6: For frosting, heat cream on stove & remove. Pour in chocolate chips, let sit for 1 min, then stir until smooth. Allow to cool.

STEP 7: Beat butter until pale and fluffy. Add sugar & cocoa powder & beat until fully dissolved & fluffy. Mix in chocolate ganache, vanilla, & salt & beat for another few minutes.

STEP 8: Pipe a rim of frosting around the edge of the 1st layer. Spread butterscotch on inside of 'rim'.

STEP 9: Spread a layer of chocolate ganache frosting on top and top with a little extra butterscotch .

STEP 10: Place next layer of cake on top & repeat until all layers are used. Refrigerate for 2 hrs. Use leftover frosting & butterscotch to frost the outside of the cake.

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