Steps to Make Any-night-of-the-week Chocolate cake

Chocolate cake.

You can cook Chocolate cake using 8 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Chocolate cake

1. It's 375 grams of plain chocolate, chopped.
2. You need 175 grams of unsalted butter.
3. It's 175 grams of light muscovado sugar.
4. It's 4 of eggs.
5. It's 2 tsp of vanilla essence.
6. It's 150 grams of self raising flour.
7. It's 55 grams of ground almonds.
8. Prepare 125 ml of double cream.

Chocolate cake instructions

1. Preheat oven to 180 (I currently use a fan assisted electric oven). Grease and line cake tin..
2. Melt 250g chocolate in a bowl over a pan of hot water. Remove from the heat and cool slightly..
3. 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..
4. Fold in the flour and almonds evenly..
5. 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..
6. 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..
7. 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..