14
Oct

How Do I Make A Moist Dark Chocolate Cake

by Choccy, in: Choccy Cake

This is a delicious chocolate cake from Lee Hansen who is a mother, grandmother and self-confessed chocoholic who publishes parenting tips, craft printables and family-friendly articles at Pastiche Family Portal (http://parenting.leehansen.com)

This is the perfect chocolate cake to bake for a chocolate lover’s birthday. It’s also delicious as a special holiday dessert or a sweet Valentine’s Day treat. Do your heart some good – bake a dark chocolate cake!

Ingredients

1/2 C. butter or margarine, softened
1/2 C. sugar
2 eggs
3/4 C. unsweetened baking cocoa
2 C. flour
pinch of salt
2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. baking powder
1 C. milk
1 C. strong coffee, cooled
1 tsp. vanilla

Mixing and Baking Instructions

Sift dry ingredients together; set aside.

Cream butter and sugar until fluffy; beat in eggs 1 at a time.

Add sifted dry ingredients alternately with milk, beating gently until combined.

Add coffee and vanilla and stir just until well blended.

Bake in 2 greased and floured 9-inch cake pans at 350 degrees F, or until cake tests done. (Cake is done when toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.) Begin testing layers after about 20 minutes baking time.

Cool cake layers for 15 minutes or until pans are easy to handle. Remove cake layers carefully from pans. Complete cooling on cake racks.

Assemble and frost the cooled cake layers with Chocolate Icing (recipe below) or your favorite butter cream icing or whipped cream.

Chocolate Icing

1/2 C. butter or margarine (1 stick),melted
1 box (2 C.) confectioner’s sugar/powdered sugar
2 Tbl. unsweetened baking cocoa
1 tsp. vanilla
1 tsp. milk

Melt butter in saucepan; remove from heat and stir in sugar and cocoa, then add vanilla and milk.
Stir icing until glossy and thick. Cool slightly and spread on cake with spatula.

NOTES

- Do not substitute low-fat or “light” margarine for the butter in these recipes.
- This chocolate cake recipe can also be baked as cupcakes or as a sheet cake.

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1
Oct

The Recipe.

by Choccy, in: Choccy Cake

For this wonderful recipe, I recommend a good dark chocolate with at least 70% cocoa solids because it gives a more chocolatey, fuller flavour to the chocolate cake. Green & Blacks chocolate is my favourite for this chocolate cake recipe.
Serves: 10
Takes: 50 mins, plus time to cool down

Ingredients:
For the chocolate cake:
200g Green & Blacks dark chocolate, broken into small pieces
200g light muscovado sugar
140g butter, softened
5 eggs, separated
100g plain flour
1tsp baking powder

For the chocolate cake icing:
250ml double cream
55g marshmallows
250g Green & Blacks dark chocolate, chopped

Directions:

  1. Heat the oven to 180°C/350°F/Gas Mark 4.
  2. Line a 20cm loose based cake tin with greaseproof paper.
  3. Boil a pan of water and turn the heat down to a simmer.
  4. Put the chocolate pieces into a bowl and melt it over the pan of simmering water.
  5. When all the chocolate has melted, put it to one side to cool a little.
  6. In a large bowl beat sugar and butter together until light and fluffy.
  7. Add the egg yolks one at a time and beat them well as you add them.
  8. Gently fold in the flour and baking powder, then stir in the melted chocolate.
  9. In a separate bowl whisk together the egg whites until they form peaks.
  10. Fold the egg whites gently into the chocolate cake mixture.
  11. Tip the finished cake mixture into your ready prepared cake tin.
  12. Bake in the oven for about 35 minutes.
  13. Check it’s ready with a skewer, if it comes out of the cake clean then it’s ready, if not then bake for a little longer.
  14. Cool on a wire rack.

For the icing, heat together the cream and marshmallows until the cream is just boiling and all the marshmallows have melted into the cream, you must stir the icing all the time.
Add the chopped chocolate to the mixture and stir until it’s smooth and creamy.
Chop your cooled chocolate cake in half horizontally and spread over a little of the icing. Sandwich together and then spread the rest of the icing over the top of your cake.
Now enjoy!

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1
Oct

Choccy Doodle Doo!

by Choccy, in: Choccy Cake

Chocolate Cake Recipe was originally a one page site for my all time favourite chocolate cake recipe.

Then along came Chocolate Cake Recipe – The Blog!

This is where I intend to try lots of new and old chocolate cake recipes to see if any of them can beat my favourite. Hopefully, along the way, I will meet some like-minded people who will read, comment and share their opinions (and recipes too).

I look forward to my mission – hope you will join me!

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