Chocolate Cake
- Preparation and cooking time
- Total time
- Easy
- Serves 6
Ingredients
- 125 g dark chocolate
- 3 tablespoons of milk
- 150 g butter
- 150 g caster sugar
- 3 eggs
- 200g plain flour
- 1tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 1 tbsp cocoa powder
- 2 x 20cm cake tin buttered and lined with grease proof paper
- Pre heated oven 180 - 25 mins
- chocolate butter cream filling
- 75 g butter
- tbsp cream
- tsp vanilla extract
- tbsp cocoa powder
- 175g icing sugar sifted
Method
- STEP 1put the chocolate and the milk in a bowl on top of a saucepan of boiling water - allow chocolate to melt
- STEP 2butter in a mixing bowl beat the butter, add sugar continue to beat - beat till creamy
- STEP 3add one egg at a time, beat till creamy add other egg add chocolate into the butter and egg mix and stir
- STEP 4sift in flour with baking powder and bicarbonate of soda and cocoa powder - sift them all in - stir in gently folding it all in - divide into the two cake tins - make a slight hollow in one cake to help when sandwiching together - bake for 25 mins check with a skewer it should come out clean
- STEP 5Butter Cream - put the butter in a mixing bowl with cream and beat, add the vanilla then cocoa powder and icing sugar - sandwich two cakes together with the butter cream
- STEP 6when the cake is finished sift icing sugar over the top
