Chocolate Cake
Chocolate Cake

Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, chocolate cake. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Chocolate Cake is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Chocolate Cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook chocolate cake using 15 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Chocolate Cake:
  1. Get 250 g butter at room temp
  2. Make ready 200 g dark chocolate
  3. Take 1 1/2 tsp instant coffee dissolved in 350ml boiling water
  4. Prepare 250 g caster sugar
  5. Get 2 eggs beaten
  6. Prepare 2 tsp vanilla bean paste
  7. Take 30 g cocoa powder
  8. Make ready 240 g plain flour
  9. Make ready 3 tsp baking powder
  10. Take Pinch salt
  11. Get Chocolate Buttercream
  12. Get 100 g dark chocolate
  13. Take 130 g butter (room temp)
  14. Take 220 g icing sugar
  15. Take 1 tsp vanilla essence
Steps to make Chocolate Cake:
  1. Heat oven to 150c and grease 2 x 23cm cake tins
  2. In a large bowl break the chocolate into chunks and cut the butter into 2cm cubes. Pour over the hot coffee and stir until melted
  3. Add the sugar and whisk until dissolved.
  4. Add eggs and vanilla and whisk until thoroughly combined.
  5. Sift in the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and salt and whisk until combined.
  6. Pour the cake batter into the cake tins. Bake in oven for 35 minutes (check cooked by inserting a skewer and it comes out clean)
  7. To make the buttercream- melt the chocolate over some boiling water. Leave to cool to room temp. Beat the butter and sugar until light and fluffy, add the vanilla and chocolate and beat until well combined.
  8. Once the sponges have reached room temperature (atleast 1 hour) spread 1 third of the buttercream over one sponge, sandwich with the second sponge and cover with the remaining buttercream. 😋

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