Emoji Cake 😘 (moist chocolate cake with cream cheese icing in the shape of an emoji)

This moist chocolate cake with cream cheese icing is sooo delicious!

It was Leo’s idea to bake a “kissy face” cake for his great-grandmother’s birthday… It’s nice and easy and there are many face emojis to choose from! 😊😅😎😍😘

Ingredients for the Cake:

1 3/4 cups flour

1 1/2 cups brown sugar

2 eggs

3/4 cup cocoa powder

1 and a 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

1 teaspoon salt

1 cup buttermilk

1/2 cup melted butter

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 cup hot water

2 teaspoons coffee

Cake Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius. 
2. Grease/”spray and cook” a cake tin
3. Mix 2 teaspoons instant coffee in 1 cup of boiling water and allow to cool. 
4. In a large bowl mix together: Flour, sugar, cocoa, baking powder and salt. 

5. In a smaller bowl mix together: Eggs, buttermilk, vanilla extract 

6. Pour smaller bowl (eggs, buttermilk and vanilla extract) into larger bowl with dry ingredients. 
7. Pour melted butter in and mix. 
8. Pour water with coffee in and mix. 
9. Pour cake mixture into greased cake tin. 
10. Bake for about 45mins.
11. Allow to cool before icing. (Or make the cake the day before.) 

Icing:

With an electric mixer, mix together:

3 tubs plain cream cheese (each tub 250g)

1 and 1/2 cups Icing sugar

5mls Vanilla essence

5mls Yellow food colouring

To draw the face of the cake I used a squeezy bottle with Chocolate sauce for ice-cream. 

Heart Cookie: This cookie recipe with red food colouring added.