Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, chocolate cake. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Historically, red velvet cake was just chocolate cake tinted red from the acid in cocoa powder, not from food coloring. Nowadays most cocoa powders are alkalized, as in stripped of acid. Look for a non-alkalized one for this old-fashioned recipe. Completing the classic look is a coat of bright white ermine frosting, cooked the old-fashioned way.
Chocolate Cake is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They are fine and they look fantastic. Chocolate Cake is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have chocolate cake using 16 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Chocolate Cake:
- Get 2 Cups White Sugar
- Prepare 1 3/4 Cup Plain Flour
- Prepare 3/4 Cup Cocoa Powder
- Make ready 1 1/2 Teaspoon Baking Powder
- Make ready 1 1/2 Teaspoon Baking Soda
- Make ready 1 Teaspoon Salt
- Get 2 Eggs
- Prepare 2 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- Take 1 Cup Milk
- Prepare 1/2 Cup Oil
- Make ready 1 Cup Boiling Water
- Get Icing Ingredients
- Take 1 1/2 Cups Icing Sugar
- Take 2 Tablespoons Cocoa Powder
- Get 2 Tablespoons Softened Butter
- Make ready 1/4 Cup Milk
Stir in boiling water (batter will be thin). Chop the chocolate and place it in a heat-proof bowl set over a pan of simmering water. Stir until just melted and set aside until cooled to room temperature. In the bowl of an electric mixer.
Instructions to make Chocolate Cake:
- Preheat oven to 180°C. Grease and dust 2 baking tins with butter and cocoa powder (if you only have one tin, bake the batter in 2 separate batches)
- Add flour, Cocoa Powder, baking soda, baking powder and salt into a bowl and mix together.
- Whisk together eggs, milk, sugar, oil, vanilla and boiling water.
- Add the dry mixture into the wet mixture in batches and whisk continuously. The consistency of the batter should be runny.
- Place your batter into your tins and bake in the oven for 30-35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
- Cool the cake inside the tin for 10 minutes and then remove to finish cooling on a wire rack.
- For icing, whisk together icing sugar, cocoa powder and butter, slowly adding milk to your desired consistency.
- Ice the cake when it has cooled down completely. You can make a layered cake or keep it as 2 single cakes.
Stir until just melted and set aside until cooled to room temperature. In the bowl of an electric mixer. Frost cake with Chocolate Buttercream Frosting. 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. Dust with flour and tap out the excess.
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