Chocolate cake. The consistency is dense and cakey. It would go well with chocolate (or your favorite) chips, nuts, or served warm with hot fudge. This cake, 'born' out of a pregnancy craving, worked out amazingly!

Combine flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with milk, beating until smooth after each addition. 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. Line with parchment paper, then butter and flour the pans. You can cook Chocolate cake using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Chocolate cake

You need 6 oz of butter or margarine.
It's 6 oz of caster sugar.
Prepare 3 of eggs.
It's 6 oz of self raising flour.
It's 1 tsp of oil.
It's 2 tbsp of coco powder.
Prepare Half of bar of dark chocolate.
You need 250 g of unsalted butter.
Prepare 500 g of icing sugar.
It's Half of bar of dark chocolate.
Prepare 2 tbsp of coco powder.

Sift the flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder. There are plenty of claims for the best chocolate cake recipe. But with one bite of this decadent, moist chocolate cake with chocolate frosting, every single person around the table commented that this was the best chocolate cake they'd ever tasted. Stir together sugar, flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt in large bowl.

Chocolate cake instructions

Preheat oven to 180⁰/ GM5. Grease the tins..
Mix the butter and caster sugar together until smooth..
Add eggs and mix. Then add flour and mix until smooth. Add coco powder and oil and stir..
Melt half of the chocolate in the microwave and pour it into cake mixture and stir until all mixed in..
Evenly pour half into each tin and cook for about 20 mins. Check its cooked by putting a knife in the cakes and if it comes out clean then its cooked..
Take out tins and leave on cooling rack until completely cooled..
Beat the butter until smooth and add the icing sugar then the coco powder. Melt the rest of the chocolate and add to buttercream. Add milk if a bit stiff. Pipe onto cake..

This chocolate cake recipe is a true classic, resulting in a moist crumb with deep chocolate flavor. It is a simple recipe, calling for ingredients you most likely have in your pantry and fridge, including flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking powder and soda, eggs, milk, and vanilla extract. This easy cake has the light, even texture of a boxed cake mix. The chocolate cake itself is similar to my Chocolate Cake with Cranberry Buttercream, but even a little bit simpler to put together as it calls for oil and cocoa powder rather than melted butter and chocolate. You can feel confident going with either one, depending on whether you're in a butter creaming mood or not.