Chocolate Cake Recipe

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So chocolately, so delicious, so light! This is the best, most sublime chocolate cake you ever imagined. With our step by step pictures and advice, you can be sure that you will soon be eating the food of the Gods!

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This recipe is over two pages, first how to cook the chocolate sponge then how to fill it and how to ice the cake.

Recipe by David Marks.

KEY POINTS

Preparation Time:	10 minutes	Cooking Time:	35 minutes
How Difficult	Medium	Freeze?	No
	Servings	1 Cake, 8 Slices

INGREDIENTS
The basic ingredients for the chocolate sponge are shown below.

WHAT SPECIAL KITCHEN EQUIPMENT FOR CHOCOLATE CAKE

You will need the following for the chocolate sponge:
1 large bowl to mix the ingredients
1 sieve
2 18cm (7 inch) cake tins approximately 4 cm (11/2 inch deep)
Small amount of greaseproof paper

You will need the following for the fudge icing:
Medium bowl to mix ingredients

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The butter for the sponge must be soft. The best way to achieve this is to measure out the butter an hour or so before it is needed and leave it at room temperature. If this is not possible, break up the butter with a fork and beat it for a minute or so.

Turn the oven on, setting it to 170°C / 325°F / Gas Mark 3.

Next, grease both of the baking trays with margarine or butter, cut out 2 circles of greaseproof paper and line the base of both baking trays.

 

NOTE: If you follow the recipe and use the correct sized cake tins then you will have no problem. However, if you use smaller cake tins then only fill to around two thirds full. If you fill up the cake tins completely the mixture will overflow into your oven as it cooks.


  

CLICK HERE TO GO TO PAGE ON HOW TO ICE YOUR
CHOCOLATE CAKE

178 RATINGS GIVEN - AVERAGE
 

	16 July 2011	From: Zulnaira
I think this cake is very nice, I make loads of homemade cake and this is my best. I also made this today because it was my mother's b day. It is just amazing, please make this if u want too!!!!! x

	18 July 2011	From: Sasha
I am in only a year 8 student at thorns community college. We were asked to search for a recipe and use it in are class All I had to do was type in chocolate cake recipe into google and click on the first website and there came everything I needed. There was a picture of the cake, there was the INGREDIENTS I needed and the picture of the INGREDIENTS and the steps of how to make the cake. The recipe was fantastic it worked fantastically well and well it tasted to die for!

	13 August 2011	From: Aliyah
I really like this recipe :D

	14 August 2011	From: Pauline M
What a wicked chocolate cake !! Beautiful texture, fabulous taste, and all my family and friends love it. Never lasts more than a day in our house. I'm now on a mission making this choc cake regularly for birthdays etc. Thanks for this great recipe :)

	13 August 2011	From: Tiegan Phillips
I thought this was a lovely chocolate cake, but it was quite expensive to buy all the ingredients. But this was a lot of fun to make, and my brother was very happy on his birthday. Thank You :)

	3 September 2011	From: Sarah
What a fantastic recipe, my daughter (who is only 11) used this to help her do her first cake. It was yummy!

	27 September 2011	From: Pam
HAD FRIENDS COMING FROM AMERICA WHO WANTED A HOME MADE CHOCOLATE CAKE, THIS WAS PERFECT. THANKS FROM PAM

	1 October 2011	From: Not Given
Fantastic!

	10 October 2011	From: Sam
This is so far the best home made cake mix I've eaten. I added mix spice to mine, very nice.

	14 October 2011	From: Jenny
Cakes came out perfectly, brilliant recipe, thanks xx

	22 October 2011	From: Not Given
Amazing!

	5 November 2011	From: Alicia
Amazing! I took it for my year 8 food tech class and I got a high level and it tasted brilliant!!

	27 November 2011	From: BOB
This is the BEST chocolate cake recipe ever and soooooooo simple!

	3 December 2011	From: Tommaso
I love this! It is great!

	12 December 2011	From: Not Given
Simply heavenly.

	11 January 2012	From: Not Given
Well am glad to be the first this year to comment on this amazing, out of this world, delicious cake. My first chocolate cake I have made from scratch, thank you, thank you, thank you, simply the best, better than all the rest.

	6 February 2012	From: Not Given
Started baking with my little girl, never had a success until I tried this recipe, even with the help of a 2 yr old! Tastes good and is beautifully simple, no fails as yet!

	1 March 2012	From: Sunita
Delicious.

	12 March 2012	From: Jane
Just made it today and was very pleased, I did take a little bit of butter out and replaced with a little bit of vegetable oil and came out soft and spongy.

	21 March 2012	From: Maz
First time I have made a chocolate cake. Really easy recipe but tastes like professional cake.

	16 April 2012	From: Not Given
HONESTLY the best i have ever had.

	12 May 2012	From: Ken
Good recipe, have made this 3 times now, currently got one the oven, I added a little oil this time to make the sponge that little bit moister.

	5 July 2012	From: Leighanne
Beautiful chocolate cake recipe, I've made this several times and it's a birthday favourite.

	4 October 2012	From: Not Given
i made this for charity and it was first sold out. this cake is so nice and simple love it

	18 October 2012	From: Not Given
Very nice...thanks for the recipe !!

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