Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, heavenly chocolate cake. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Heavenly chocolate cake is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Heavenly chocolate cake is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook heavenly chocolate cake using 32 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Heavenly chocolate cake:
- Prepare Chocolate cake :
- Make ready 500 ml cake flour sifted
- Make ready 3 tsp baking powder
- Take 1 tsp bicarb soda
- Get Pinch salt
- Prepare 180 ml cocoa powder
- Make ready 500 ml sugar
- Prepare 2 eggs
- Prepare 1 tsp vanilla essence
- Take 250 ml hot water mixed with 3 tsp coffee
- Get 125 ml oil
- Take 250 ml milk
- Take Buttercream:
- Take 2 cups icing sugar
- Get 4 Tbs soft butter
- Prepare 1 tsp cocoa (for a light colour)
- Take 2 Tbs milk
- Make ready Chocolate Ganache :
- Get 1 Tbs butter
- Take 1/2 cup milk
- Prepare 200 g baking chocolate
- Take Homemade chocolate numbers:
- Take Pen
- Take Waxpaper
- Make ready 50 g chocolate pieces(depends on how thick you want the numbers)
- Prepare Toothpicks
- Prepare Deco(I used edible glitter and mini Astros)
- Take Chocolate dipped strawberries:
- Take 10 strawberries
- Prepare Few pieces chocolate
- Make ready Edible glitter
- Make ready Extra Deco for the cake as required
Steps to make Heavenly chocolate cake:
- Preheat the oven at 180 °C. Grease or line 2 round baking tins. Sift the dry ingredients (cake flour, bicarb soda, baking powder, salt, cocoa powder, sugar) for the cake into a bowl. Separately add the eggs, vanilla, oil and milk into a bowl and beat well. Add to the dry ingredients and lightly mix through. Add the hot coffee and mix till smooth.
- Pour the batter into the pans and bake for 20/25 mins inserting a toothpick in the middle to check if done. Leave the cake to cool, cover with wax paper and freeze
- Write your numbers down on wax paper. Melt the chocolate and fill the numbers using a piping bag or teaspoon. Apply enough chocolate to make thick numbers. Place toothpicks at the bottom and cover the top with chocolate. Decorate as desired and leave it to set. Melt chocolate for the strawberries and dip them as desired, decorate with edible glitter.
- Prepare the buttercream by adding all ingredients (icing sugar, butter, cocoa powder, milk) together, mix till smooth. Take the cake out and apply a thin layer of buttercream on 1 cake layer, add the other layer on top. Ice the sides of the cake and smooth it out. Place the cake in the freezer.
- Prepare the ganache by melting the butter in a pot, add the milk than chocolate pieces. Stir till the chocolate melts and leave it to thicken slightly. Take the cake out and drip the cake sides with ganache by using a spoon or piping bag. Spread the rest of the ganache on the top of the cake. Add the deco for the cake as desired, insert your numbers and place the strawberries. Leave the cake to set and enjoy.
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