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Ready to wow everyone? The Giant Boston Cream Cake packs rich chocolate and creamy filling in every bite.
Want to make a cake that looks huge and tastes amazing? This Giant Boston Cream Cake is the answer. It’s a chocolate cake with a creamy vanilla filling in the middle and smooth chocolate frosting on top. Even though it sounds fancy, it’s pretty easy to make at home. Perfect for birthdays or any time you want to impress your friends and family.
Why This Giant Boston Cream Cake Is Awesome
- Super moist and chocolaty: The coffee in the batter makes the chocolate flavor really pop and keeps the cake soft.
- Creamy filling: The sweet, thickened condensed milk adds a smooth vanilla surprise between the layers.
- Easy frosting: The chocolate frosting is quick to whip up and tastes rich without being too sweet.
- Big and impressive: Two layers make it look like a bakery cake, but you made it yourself!
- Great for sharing: It’s so good that everyone will want a slice (if you let them).
This Giant Boston Cream Cake is perfect if you want a dessert that tastes great, looks impressive, and doesn’t take forever to make.
A Boston cream cake is a cake with a cream filling. The dessert acquired its name when cakes and pies were cooked in the same pans, and the words were used interchangeably. In the later part of the 19th century, this type of cake was variously called a “cream pie”, a “chocolate cream pie”, or a “custard cake”.
This cake is rich, soft, and indulgent with a creamy vanilla surprise in the middle. The combo of dark chocolate, sweet cream, and fluffy texture makes it totally irresistible. It’s perfect for birthdays, potlucks, or just impressing the chocolate lovers in your life.
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The Giant Boston Cream Cake
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 40 minutes
- Total Time: 0 hours
- Yield: 1 double layered cake 1x
- Category: Cupcakes, Cookies and Tarts
- Method: Easy
- Cuisine: American
Description
The Giant Boston Cream Cake is proof that homemade cakes can outshine bakery treats. Moist chocolate layers with creamy vanilla filling make it perfect for any celebration. Have you ever tried making a layered cake from scratch?
Ingredients
Cake
- 2 cups white sugar
- 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 3/4 cup cocoa powder
- 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup milk
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup hot coffee
“Cream” filling
- 1 tin condensed milk
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
Frosting
- 40 ml butter
- 60 ml cocoa powder
- 1 cup icing sugar
- 30 ml milk
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
Cake
- Preheat oven to 350°F/180°C and grease/line 2 9-inch cake pans.
- In a large bowl, sift together all dry ingredients.
- Make a well in the center and mix in all remaining ingredients except for the coffee.
- Lastly, add the coffee and mix to combine.
- Pour into pans and bake for 35–40 minutes, or until a tester comes out clean.
- Turn out onto a rack and cool before icing.
Cream Filling
- Empty the condensed milk into a saucepan and heat over medium heat while
stirring continuously. - After about 15 minutes, it will be thickened but not browned – look for a consistency that’s just a bit less thick than frosting.
- Allow it to cool before spreading it between the 2 cake layers.
- I used almost all of it.
Frosting
- Whisk butter and cocoa powder together very thoroughly until perfectly
smooth. - Add icing sugar, milk, and vanilla and mix until smooth and perfectly combined.
- Spread it over the top of the cake and enjoy!
Made for a happy birthday cake for my hubby – barely anything came home from his work for us to try. It was delicious
Notes
Prepared, tried, and tested by Corlea from SA Tasty Recipes – Saffas Daily Recipes
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1
- Calories: 401
- Sugar: 45
- Sodium: 443
- Fat: 14
- Saturated Fat: 3
- Unsaturated Fat: 10
- Trans Fat: 0
- Carbohydrates: 64
- Fiber: 2
- Protein: 5
- Cholesterol: 41
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This recipe for The Giant Boston Cream Cake delivers a moist, rich chocolate cake layered with creamy vanilla filling and topped with smooth chocolate frosting. It’s simple enough for home bakers but impressive enough to serve at any celebration. Anyone who loves classic flavors with a homemade touch will want to make this cake right away.
The Giant Boston Cream Cake combines rich chocolate cake with a creamy vanilla filling that’s easy to make at home. Perfect for birthdays or any celebration where you want to impress without stress.
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Sounds like a recipe my son would definitely love to try and I could even taste even though cake is off my meals list 😉 Ahhh to live a life of not focusing on what I eat, rather on the fact that my body is a fat-burning machine and only keeps what I need and demolishes what I don’t. I believe I am getting there.
Yes, Hope that your son will love it, it’s delicious and I totally agree with you that we have to be selective of what we consume. I did eat some cake over the weekend as it’s my birthday and then I do indulge in a slice of cake.