Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, chocolate cake. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Chocolate cake is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They are nice and they look wonderful. Chocolate cake is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
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 begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook chocolate cake using 8 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Chocolate cake:
- Make ready 375 grams plain chocolate, chopped
- Take 175 grams unsalted butter
- Make ready 175 grams light muscovado sugar
- Make ready 4 eggs
- Make ready 2 tsp vanilla essence
- Make ready 150 grams self raising flour
- Prepare 55 grams ground almonds
- Take 125 ml double cream
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.
Steps to make Chocolate cake:
- Preheat oven to 180 (I currently use a fan assisted electric oven). Grease and line cake tin.
- Melt 250g chocolate in a bowl over a pan of hot water. Remove from the heat and cool slightly.
- Beat the butter and sugar until pale fluffy and then gradually beat in the eggs. Stir in the melted chocolate and 1 teaspoon of the vanilla essence.
- Fold in the flour and almonds evenly.
- Spoon mixture into tin and smooth over with spatula. Place in the oven and cook for 1 and a 1/2 hours or until risen and a skewer comes out clean.
- Remove from the oven and leave to cool in the tin for 10 minutes and then turn out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
- Heat the remaining chocolate and vanilla essence in a pan until melted and then blend in the Baileys. Let the mixture cool so it thickens. Cut the cake in half and spread the filling over the bottom half before sandwiching back together.
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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