Chocolate cake.
Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we're going to prepare a special dish, chocolate cake. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Chocolate cake is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It's appreciated by millions every day. It's simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Chocolate cake is something which I've loved my whole life. They're fine and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have chocolate cake using 14 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Chocolate cake:
- {Make ready of cake.
- {Make ready 225 grams of plain flour.
- {Take 350 grams of caster sugar.
- {Take 85 grams of cocoa powder.
- {Prepare 1 1/2 tsp of baking powder.
- {Take 1 1/2 tsp of bicarbonate of soda.
- {Take 2 of eggs.
- {Make ready 250 ml of milk.
- {Get 125 ml of vegetable oil.
- {Prepare 2 tsp of vanilla extract.
- {Take 250 ml of boiling water.
- {Prepare of chocolate icing.
- {Get 200 grams of plain chocolate.
- {Make ready 200 ml of double cream.
Steps to make Chocolate cake:
- Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4. Grease and line two 20cm/8in sandwich tins..
- For the cake, place all of the cake ingredients, except the boiling water, into a large mixing bowl. Using a wooden spoon, or electric whisk, beat the mixture until smooth and well combined..
- Add the boiling water to the mixture, a little at a time, until smooth. (The cake mixture will now be very liquid.).
- Divide the cake batter between the sandwich tins and bake in the oven for 25-35 minutes, or until the top is firm to the touch and a skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean..
- Remove the cakes from the oven and allow to cool completely, still in their tins, before icing..
- For the chocolate icing, heat the chocolate and cream in a saucepan over a low heat until the chocolate melts. Remove the pan from the heat and whisk the mixture until smooth, glossy and thickened. Set aside to cool for 1-2 hours, or until thick enough to spread over the cake..
- To assemble the cake, run a round-bladed knife around the inside of the cake tins to loosen the cakes. Carefully remove the cakes from the tins..
- Spread a little chocolate icing over the top of one of the chocolate cakes, then carefully top with the other cake..
- Transfer the cake to a serving plate and ice the cake all over with the chocolate icing, using a palette knife..
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