Magic Flan Cake (Chocoflan)

This Magic Flan Cake is a delicious dessert with both a chocolate cake and flan layer. The magic happens as it bakes, the chocolate layer floats to the top and the flan to the bottom. 

It’s time for another magic cake recipe. If you’ve never experimented with whipping one of these up, believe me you’re in for a treat. Not only is this magic flan cake completely delicious and drool worthy, chock full of chocolate and caramel, but it’s also the 8th wonder of the man made world.

Magic Flan Cake or Chocoflan

In all the baking that I’ve done over the years, I have to say this is my favorite cake that I have ever made. That’s saying a lot, but I absolutely love flan, and when paired together with a delicious layer of chocolate cake, you have magic. Although the ingredient list seems long, and it does take a while for this cake to bake, it’s all worth it in the end. Trust me!

Ingredient Notes

Chocolate Cake

• Caramel sauce – Store bought or you can make your own, here’s a simple 1 ingredient caramel sauce recipe.
• Flour – All purpose is all we need for this cake today.
• Cocoa powder – We want this chocolate cake to be rich, complex, and oh so chocolatey.
• Spices – We need a bit of cinnamon to spice up our chocolate cake.
• Baking powder – The leavening agent in our cake, to ensure volume and texture.
• Seasoning – All baked goods need a bit of salt, without it your cake will taste bland.
• Chocolate – Bittersweet baking chocolate chopped up.
• Butter – Unsalted as to control the salt content of our dish.
• Buttermilk – This ingredient will ensure our cake is tender, full of dimension and complexity.
• Sugar – I used white granulated sugar today.
• Eggs – 2 eggs to ensure our cake turns out exactly the way we want it to.
• Vanilla – Secret flavor weapon.

Flan

• Condensed milk – Just one can of the stuff, believe me every good flan needs it.
• Milk – We’re using whole fat milk, I recommend keeping this ingredient as high fat as possible.
• Cream cheese – Keep at room temperature so that it blends easily.
• Eggs – We’re using both whole eggs and egg yolks, we’re using a lot of eggs for this recipe so be sure to stock up.
• Vanilla – Just a bit of vanilla extract to flavor our flan.

How To Make Magic Flan Cake (Chocoflan)

1. Preheat oven: Preheat oven to 350°F.
2. Prep the pan: Spray an angel food cake pan or a 12 cup bundt pan (without a removable bottom) with cooking spray generously. Pour the caramel sauce evenly over the bottom of the pan.
3. Combine the dry ingredients: In a medium bowl combine the flour, cocoa, cinnamon, baking soda, salt and mix; set aside. In a microwave safe bowl and the chocolate and butter and microwave in 30 seconds intervals until chocolate is melted and it’s smooth. Mine took about 1 minute and 30 seconds.
4. Combine the wet ingredients: Add buttermilk, sugar, eggs and vanilla to the melted chocolate and whisk until it’s smooth. Pour chocolate mixture to the dry ingredients and whisk until it well incorporated and smooth. Pour the chocolate batter evenly over the caramel in the cake pan.
5. Prepare the flan: To make the flan simply add all the flan ingredients to a blender and process on low until smooth. Be careful, there’s a lot of batter here, so you want to make sure you do this on low otherwise it might explode all over. Pour the flan batter over the chocolate in the pan
6. Bake the cake: Place the cake pan in a large roasting pan and place it in the oven. Add enough hot water to the roasting pan to reach halfway up the sides of the pan. Careful so you don’t burn yourself. Bake the cake for about 1 hour and 30 minutes, mine took about 1 hour and 40 minutes, or until you insert a toothpick in the cake and it comes out clean.
7. Finish the magic cake: Cool the cake in the pan for about 15 minutes then carefully invert onto a cake platter. Cool completely at room temperature then chill for at least 4 hours before slicing and serving.

FAQs & Expert Tips

FAQs

Tips

1. You do need to make a water bath bath for baking this cake, so you’ll need a large roasting pan, one that’s large enough so that your cake pan fits in it. You need to pour enough water so that it’s half way up the sides of the pan.
2. The flan cake requires a long baking time, I baked mine for about 1 hour and 40 minutes, you will want to do the toothpick test to make sure it’s done. Each oven is different, so it may take more or less time for you.
3. Traditional flan cake does not include cream cheese, but it will make the flan cake layer much creamier.

Leftovers

In the fridge this chocoflan will last up to 5 days, just be sure it’s stored in an airtight container.

Freezing

This chocoflan can also be frozen! In the freezer it’ll keep for up to a month due to the flan portion of the dessert. When thawing you’ll want to remove it from the freezer and allow to come to temperature in the fridge for a few hours, then remove it and allow to come up to room temperature right on the counter.

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• Magic Cake
• Lemon Magic Cake
• Chocolate Swiss Roll Cake
• Pumpkin Magic Cake
• Nutella Magic Cake
• Sticky Toffee Pudding
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