Happy Birthday Pike Place Roast
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Ingredients
  • For the bundt cake
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 1 cup oil
  • 2 eggs
  • 3 cups flour
  • ¾ cup unsweetend cocoa powder
  • 2 teaspoons baking soda
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1½ teaspoon kosher salt
  • 2 sticks of Starbucks VIA dissolved in 1 cup of hot water
  • 1 cup buttermilk
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • ½ cup chopped walnuts
  • For the filling
  • ¼ cup sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 8 oz brown sugar cream cheese, softened (regular cream cheese will work too)
  • 1 egg
  • 1 cup dark chocolate chips
  • For the glaze
  • 1 cup powdered sugar
  • 3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 1 stick of Starbucks VIA
  • 3 tablespoons of butter, room temperature
  • 2 tablespoons vanilla extract
  • 1-3 tablespoons of hot water
Instructions
  1. Generously grease and flour a 10" tube cake pan.
  2. Preheat oven to 350.
  3. Prepare the filling. Add all of the filling ingredients in a bowl. Mix until fully combined. Set aside.
  4. To prepare the cake, in a large bowl or stand mixer, combine the sugar, oil and egg. Beat on high for 1 minute.
  5. Mix the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder and salt in a bowl. Whisk until combined.
  6. Dissolve the VIA in hot water, and mix until fully dissolved.
  7. Gradually add the dry ingredients, alternating with the coffee and buttermilk.
  8. Once the coffee, buttermilk and dry ingredients have been combined, add the vanilla, beat until combined.
  9. Stir in nuts by hand.
  10. Pour about ¾ of the batter into the prepared pan. Spoon the filling on top, keeping it in away from the edge of the pan if possible. Gently pour the remaining batter over the filling.
  11. Bake for 60-65 minutes.
  12. Once the cake has cooled, prepare the glaze.
  13. Mix all of the glaze ingredients together, slowly incorporating the hot water at the end. Add water until you achieve your desired consistency.
Recipe by the modern barista at https://themodernbarista.com/index.php/2013/04/08/happy-birthday-pike-place-roast/