Ingredients
* 1 2/3 cups all-purpose flour
* 2/3 cup dutch cocoa powder
* 1 2/3 cups granulated sugar
* 1 tbsp baking powder
* 1/2 teaspoon salt
* 1 cup sourdough discard at room temperature
* 1/2 cup vegetable oil
* 3 large eggs
* 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
* 1 cup hot chocolate (made according to package)
Brigadeiro Frosting
* 2 tbsp butter
* 1 can condensed milk
* 3 tbsp dutch cocoa powder
* 1/2 cup heavy cream
Instructions
1. Start by preheating the oven to 350°F.
2. In a large bowl, sift all dry ingredients: all-purpose flour, sugar, salt, baking powder and dutch cocoa powder. Stir until well combined using a whisker or wooden spoon.
3. In a small bowl, combine eggs, oil, vanilla extract and sourdough starter. Whisk them together until well combined.
4. Pour wet mixture over dry ingredients and stir until batter is formed. It will be a thick batter before adding hot chocolate.
5. Pour hot chocolate over the chocolate cake batter. Stir until it’s fully combined into the batter. You should have a thin, liquid cake batter by the end.
6. Grease the pan you’ll be using with cooking spray or oil. Coat it with granulated sugar. Pour batter into prepared pan.
7. Bake cake in the middle shelf, from 45 to 50 minutes. Cake is done when it pulls away from the edges, bounces back when pressed, and a toothpick comes out clean or with just a few crumbles clinging into it.
8. Let cake cool for 5 minutes, then place a cooling rack over the top of the cake and turn it over. Give a little nudge if cake has not fallen into the cooling rack when turning.
9. Wait for the cake to cool before topping it.
10. To make the brigadeiro frosting… in a small saucepan, add condensed milk, cocoa powder and butter. Using a large burner on medium-high heat and stirring constantly so it won’t burn, cook the mixture for 5 minutes.
11. Remove it from the heat and pour heavy creamy, stirring until it combines into a smooth and creamy brigadeiro topping.
12. Most recipes tell you to pour frosting mixture over the cake while mixture is still hot. But since mine was a loaf style cake I Let my Frosting mixture set until cool, I mixed well and then poured it over my cake, that way it didn’t run off my cake. Brigadeiro frosting gets ticker as it cools.
