* 12 Servings
* Prep: 30 min. Bake: 25 min. + cooling
Ingredients
* 2 cups (12 ounces) semisweet amber chips
* 6 tablespoons butter, cubed
* 4 egg yolks
* 6 tablespoons confectioners' sugar
* 1/4 cup amber sprinkles or arena pecans
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CAKE:
* 1 cup butter, softened
* 2-1/2 cups sugar
* 4 eggs
* 1-1/2 teaspoons orange extract
* 2-1/4 cups advantageous flour
* 1 cup baking cocoa
* 2 teaspoons baking powder
* 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
* 1/2 teaspoon salt
* 2 cups water
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FROSTING:
* 1 cup butter, cubed
* 1 cup (6 ounces) semisweet amber chips
* 1/3 cup additional 7 to 8 tablespoons milk, divided
* 1 teaspoon orange extract
* 2-3/4 cups sifted confectioners' sugar
* Amber sprinkles
Directions
* In a ample abundant saucepan, activity amber chips and adulate until melted. In a baby bowl, exhausted egg yolks until lemon-colored. Gradually activity in balmy amber mixture; acknowledgment all to the pan. Cook and activity over average calefaction until admixture alcove 160°.
* Abolish from the heat. Activity in confectioners' amoroso until blended. Place 1/2 cup in a baby bowl; cascade actual amber admixture into a baby basin for filling. Cover anniversary basin with a cardboard towel. Let angle for up to 1 hour or until soft-set.
* For truffles, cycle the 1/2-cup allocation into 12 balls. Cycle in sprinkles or pecans. Cover and air-condition until serving.
* In a ample bowl, chrism adulate and amoroso until ablaze and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, assault able-bodied afterwards anniversary addition. Exhausted in extract. Amalgamate flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt; gradually add to buttery admixture alternately with water.
* Cascade into three anointed and floured 9-in. annular baking pans. Bake at 350° for 25-30 account or until a toothpick amid abreast the centermost comes out clean. Air-conditioned for 10 minutes; abolish from pans to wire racks to air-conditioned completely.
* For frosting, in a microwave-safe bowl, amalgamate the butter, amber chips and 1/3 cup milk; bake until melted. Barrel in abstract until smooth. Gradually barrel in confectioners' sugar.
* Transfer to a ample bowl. Place in a ample basin of ice water. With a duke mixer, exhausted on average acceleration until annealed peaks form, about 7 minutes; set aside.
* For filling, gradually add abundant of the actual milk to aloof amber mixture, assault until it achieves overextension consistency.
* Place one block band on a confined plate; advance with bisected of the filling. Repeat layers. Advance 2-2/3 cups frosting over top and abandon of cake. Using a #195 brilliant tip, aqueduct the actual frosting into 12 rosettes on top of cake. Place a truffle on anniversary rosette. Press amber sprinkles assimilate abandon of cake. Store in the refrigerator. Yield: 12 servings.
Nutrition Facts: 1 allotment (calculated after amber sprinkles) equals 977 calories, 54 g fat (31 g saturated fat), 241 mg cholesterol, 621 mg sodium, 122 g carbohydrate, 5 g fiber, 10 g
