Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, chocolate cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Chocolate cake is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Chocolate cake is something which I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
Historically, red velvet cake was just chocolate cake tinted red from the acid in cocoa powder, not from food coloring. Nowadays most cocoa powders are alkalized, as in stripped of acid. Look for a non-alkalized one for this old-fashioned recipe. Completing the classic look is a coat of bright white ermine frosting, cooked the old-fashioned way.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook chocolate cake using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Chocolate cake:
- Prepare 6 oz butter or margarine
- Take 6 oz caster sugar
- Prepare 3 eggs
- Get 6 oz self raising flour
- Get 1 tsp oil
- Get 2 tbsp coco powder
- Get Half bar of dark chocolate
- Take 250 g unsalted butter
- Take 500 g icing sugar
- Prepare Half bar of dark chocolate
- Get 2 tbsp coco powder
Stir in boiling water (batter will be thin). Chop the chocolate and place it in a heat-proof bowl set over a pan of simmering water. Stir until just melted and set aside until cooled to room temperature. In the bowl of an electric mixer.
Instructions to make Chocolate cake:
- Preheat oven to 180⁰/ GM5. Grease the tins.
- Mix the butter and caster sugar together until smooth.
- Add eggs and mix. Then add flour and mix until smooth. Add coco powder and oil and stir.
- Melt half of the chocolate in the microwave and pour it into cake mixture and stir until all mixed in.
- Evenly pour half into each tin and cook for about 20 mins. Check its cooked by putting a knife in the cakes and if it comes out clean then its cooked.
- Take out tins and leave on cooling rack until completely cooled.
- Beat the butter until smooth and add the icing sugar then the coco powder. Melt the rest of the chocolate and add to buttercream. Add milk if a bit stiff. Pipe onto cake.
Stir until just melted and set aside until cooled to room temperature. In the bowl of an electric mixer. Frost cake with Chocolate Buttercream Frosting. Our chocolate cake recipes include: easy one-bowl recipes, tiered cakes with frostings and fillings, mini cupcakes, Texas sheet cake, as well as gluten-free chocolate cakes and vegan chocolate cake. Dust with flour and tap out the excess.
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