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Chocolate Cake

Chocolate Cake Recipe

Recipe Submitted By: bakingmad

This is a proper chocolate cake recipe, for those times when a Victoria sponge recipe with added cocoa powder just wont do! The pan of water in the oven gives a moist cake and prevents the crust drying out.

Preparation Time 15 minutes
Baking Time 30 minutes
Portions Serves 6-8
Skill Level Easy
Average Rating 4 stars
 

Chocolate Cake Recipe Ingredients

175 grams Dark Chocolate broken into squares
200 grams Butter unsalted
200 grams Self Raising White Flour (Allinson Nature Friendly) Self Raising White Flour (Allinson Nature Friendly)
300 grams Light Muscovado Sugar (Billington's) Light Muscovado Sugar (Billington's)
30 grams Cocoa Powder
1 tsp Baking Powder
4 Free Range Eggs beaten Free Range Eggs
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Additional Ingredients

40 grams Golden Icing Sugar (Billington's) filling, sifted Golden Icing Sugar (Billington's)
20 grams Cocoa Powder filling, sifted
30 grams Butter filling, unsalted, softened
1 tbsp Water Filling
 

Further Additional Ingredients

60 grams Golden Icing Sugar (Billington's) sifted
20 grams Cocoa Powder sifted
1 tbsp Warm Water
 

This recipe uses

  • Self Raising White Flour (Allinson Nature Friendly)
  • Light Muscovado Sugar (Billington's)
  • Free Range Eggs
  • Golden Icing Sugar (Billington's)
  • Golden Icing Sugar (Billington's)

How to make Chocolate Cake Recipe

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  1. Preheat the oven to 180°C, 170°C fan, Gas Mark 4. Put some water in a cake tin or roasting tin and put in the base of the oven. Line 2 x 20cm sandwich tins, with baking parchment.
  2. In a small pan set over a very low heat melt together the chocolate and butter with 100ml water. The mixture will be smooth and glossy. method tip
  3. Sift together the flour, sugar, cocoa powder and baking powder. Mix in the eggs until well blended. Stir in the chocolate and butter. Spoon into the prepared tins and smooth the top. Bake for 30 minutes, until a skewer comes out clean when inserted. Remove from the tin, and set aside on a wire racks to cool. method tip
  4. Meanwhile, make the filling and icing. For the filling beat together all of the ingredients and refrigerate until required. For the icing, mix together the sugar, and cocoa, then stir in the water until a dropping consistency. You may need a little more water.
  5. To assemble, put a dab of buttercream filling on the centre of the serving plate, and put one cake on the plate. Spoon on the remaining filling, and top with the other cake. Spoon over the icing - to encourage it to drizzle evenly spoon into the middle, and with the back of the spoon, make circular motion on top of the cake. Allow the icing to dry for 10 minutes before decorating
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Reviews

Read all reviews (9) | Average rating: 4 stars

"Always a big fan of chocolate cakes. This is the best yet!"

16-09-2009 | Author: andrewhorner | 5 stars

"My teenage daughter and her friends LOVED this cake -my daughter now makes it herself!"

27-11-2009 | Author: bakingmama | 5 stars

"This recipe gave me the best cholcolate cake I've ever made!"

15-04-2011 | Author: lizzymoyce | 5 stars

"Great recipe, all my family loved this cake. "

02-04-2010 | Author: gemstar16 | 4 stars

"it is a very nice and delicious recipe...."

13-12-2010 | Author: abdullah khan | 5 stars

"This an absolutely awsome cake. Everybody loves it, even a picky 5 year old who doesn't normally eat cake!"

17-02-2012 | Author: Curly Wurly T | 5 stars

"I just made this cake and I must admit it tastes great!"

05-07-2012 | Author: aniscistu | 4 stars

"easy foolproof recipe just remember to use greaseproof paper on botton of pans I didn't just greased and floured but it wasn't enough cake rose well cooked in time specifed and looked de"

30-10-2012 | Author: myhappyscissors | 5 stars

"Oh my gosh! This recipe is the best. GR8 ! This is THE BEST chocolate cake you can bake! "

03-06-2013 | Author: Ukulele queen | 1 stars

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