Chocolate Gateau

• 1 cup butter or margarine,softened
• 1 cup sugar
• 3 eggs
• 3 ounces unsweetened chocolate melted
• 1 teaspoon instant coffee crystals
• 2 cups all-purpose flour Sifted
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup whipping cream
• buttercream Chocolate, Filling*, recipe follows
• chocolate glaze recipe follows
• slivered almonds

1. Cream butter and sugar in large bowl until fluffy. Beat in eggs 1 at a time, blending well after each addition. Mix in chocolate and coffee crystals. Mix in combined flour, baking soda and salt alternately with cream, beginning and ending with dry ingredients.
2. Pour batter into 2 greased and floured 8 inch round cake pans; bake at 350 F for 20 minutes, or until cake springs back when touched.
3. Cool in pans 10 minutes; remove from pans and cool.
4. Make filling and glaze.
5. Cut cake layers in half horizontally with serrated knife. Place 1 cake layer on serving plate; spread with a third of the buttercream filling. Repeat with remaining layers and filling. Frost top and side of cake with glaze; garnish with almonds.

butter, sugar, eggs, chocolate, instant coffee crystals, flour, baking soda, salt, whipping cream, buttercream chocolate, chocolate glaze, almonds

Taken from www.yummly.com/recipe/Chocolate-Gateau-1651224 (may not work)