Mexican chocolate cake with mascarpone frosting

8 servings ?

Ingredients

Cake

• 1 cup unsweetened black cacao
• 2 3/4 cups flour
• 1 1/4 cups sugar
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1 1/2 tbsp cinnamon
• 2 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp cayenne pepper
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 2 cups milk
• 1/2 cup olive oil
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil
• 2 eggs
• 2 tbsp balsamic vinegar
• 1 1/2 tbsp vanilla

Frosting

• 8 ounces (227 g) mascarpone cheese
• 1 tbsp cinnamon
• 2 tsp vanilla
• 1 cup powdered sugar
• pinch of salt
• 2 cups heavy cream (for chantilly)

Recipe

Cake

1. Oven: 350 °F = 175 °C.
2. Mix all dry ingredients. Add all liquid ingredients. Mix.
3. Butter and flour two round pans. Put parchment paper. Butter and flour again.
4. Wrap pans with damp towels (?).
5. Pour dough into pans (1/2 way full or 2/3 ?).
6. Bake 45 min.

Frosting

1. Whip the heavy cream until stiff peaks form.
2. Separately, whisk together the mascarpone, cinnamon, vanilla, salt, and sugar. Gently fold the whipped cream in.
3. Use half of frosting between cakes and other half on top. Sprinkle with cinnamon.

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made for a dinner at my place in 2019, not long before leaving Munich, with Aradhana, Dani, Ali, Lukas O, Matthaeus.