Chocolate cake.
You can cook Chocolate cake using 14 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Chocolate cake
- It's of cake.
- You need 225 grams of plain flour.
- Prepare 350 grams of caster sugar.
- It's 85 grams of cocoa powder.
- It's 1 1/2 tsp of baking powder.
- Prepare 1 1/2 tsp of bicarbonate of soda.
- You need 2 of eggs.
- You need 250 ml of milk.
- You need 125 ml of vegetable oil.
- It's 2 tsp of vanilla extract.
- You need 250 ml of boiling water.
- Prepare of chocolate icing.
- Prepare 200 grams of plain chocolate.
- Prepare 200 ml of double cream.
Chocolate cake step by step
- Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4. Grease and line two 20cm/8in sandwich tins..
- For the cake, place all of the cake ingredients, except the boiling water, into a large mixing bowl. Using a wooden spoon, or electric whisk, beat the mixture until smooth and well combined..
- Add the boiling water to the mixture, a little at a time, until smooth. (The cake mixture will now be very liquid.).
- Divide the cake batter between the sandwich tins and bake in the oven for 25-35 minutes, or until the top is firm to the touch and a skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean..
- Remove the cakes from the oven and allow to cool completely, still in their tins, before icing..
- For the chocolate icing, heat the chocolate and cream in a saucepan over a low heat until the chocolate melts. Remove the pan from the heat and whisk the mixture until smooth, glossy and thickened. Set aside to cool for 1-2 hours, or until thick enough to spread over the cake..
- To assemble the cake, run a round-bladed knife around the inside of the cake tins to loosen the cakes. Carefully remove the cakes from the tins..
- Spread a little chocolate icing over the top of one of the chocolate cakes, then carefully top with the other cake..
- Transfer the cake to a serving plate and ice the cake all over with the chocolate icing, using a palette knife..
