Chocolate cake
Chocolate cake

Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, chocolate cake. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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Chocolate cake is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Chocolate cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook chocolate cake using 8 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Chocolate cake:
  1. Make ready 3/4 cup margarine or butter
  2. Take 1 +1/3 cup sugar
  3. Make ready 3 eggs
  4. Take 1 +3/4 cup all purpose flour
  5. Make ready 1 TBSP baking powder
  6. Make ready 1/2 cup cocoa
  7. Prepare 1 cup + 2 TBSP milk
  8. Get 1 TSP vanilla

Stir in boiling water (batter will be thin). Combine flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with milk, beating until smooth after each addition. 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.

Steps to make Chocolate cake:
  1. Beat butter and sugar with hand mixer for like 5 mins till light and fluffy.
  2. Add in one egg at a time and mix thoroughly.
  3. Add vanilla
  4. Sieve flour, baking powder, cocoa together.
  5. Add half the flour and half the milk and mix, than add the rest of the flour and mix till combined, don't over mix.
  6. Bake in two 8 inch pans in preheated oven 180° for about 50 mins depending on your oven, to confirm its done,a toothpick inserted will come out clean. Turn the cake on a cooling rack.
  7. While cake is cooling for the dripping I melted 50 grams dark cooking chocolate with 50 grams whipping cream and melt together in microwave for like 30 sec.
  8. Beat 2 cups whipping cream with 1/2 cup icing sugar and 1/4 cup cocoa. When cake is cool brush some sugar water on the first layer than put a generous amount of whipped cream and than put on the second layer and brush again with sugar water than put rest of the whipping cream all around the cake. Chill after icing it.
  9. Take your piping bag,make a small snip and the end and put the chocolate dripping in, and go all around the chilled cake and let it drip down, than decorate as desired. Enjoy.
  10. Tip…Sugar water brushed on cake is to keep cake moist

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. 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. Frost cake with Chocolate Buttercream Frosting.

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