Chocolate Cake Recipe

Chocolate Cake Recipe

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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.

KEY POINTS

Preparation Time:	30 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.

Metric	Imperial
170 g self-raising flour	6 oz self-raising flour
170 g soft butter	6 oz soft butter
170 g light brown sugar (Demerara)	6 oz light brown sugar (Demerara)
3 medium eggs (at room temperature)	3 medium eggs (at room temperature)
1 heaped tablespoon Cocoa powder	1 heaped tablespoon Cocoa powder
1 heaped teaspoon baking powder	1 heaped teaspoon baking powder

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.

Place the flour in a bowl, take out one heaped tablespoon full of flour and use 1 heaped tablespoon full of the Cocoa powder to replace it. Add the baking powder.

Sieve the mixture into another large bowl.

Add the butter, sugar and eggs to the flour mixture and mix well using a fork - this should take around 3 minutes. The resulting mixture should fall off the spoon but reluctantly.

If the mixture is too thick, add a little water and mix it in well.

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.

One of the cooked sponges

Put half the mixture in each of the baking tray, smooth the surface over so that it is relatively flat. Place the baking trays in the centre of the pre-heated oven and cook for 30 minutes. DO NOT open the oven door until the 30 minutes are up!

Test if the sponge is cooked by gently pressing the centre with your finger. If it fully springs back to shape it's cooked. If not put it back in the oven for 5 minutes.

Leave the cakes in the tin for a minute to cool. Turn them out of the tins onto a wire rack. This is to let the air circulate around them as they cool.

Remove the greaseproof paper and admire your cooking skills!

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

77 RATINGS GIVEN - AVERAGE

	24 January 2011	From: Pauline
Followed your recipe and what a success the family loved it, thank you!

Not Given	24 February 2011	From: Biddy
Love this cake so easy and quick.

	26 February 2011	From: Jake
This recipe works perfectly well if you are cooking someone a pudding. Y0u are gonna have to cook this, it is the best. If you are reading please do try it it will not get more tastier than this.

	26 February 2011	From: Sam
I have been using this recipe for years it's the best ever.

	6 March 2011	From: Divneel Sharma
I like eating chocolate cakes the most, it's easy to bake.

	21 March 2011	From: Divneel Sharma
Excellent tasting and so easy to make, can't believe I've never baked before now.

	3 April 2011	From: Megan
It's awesome and its like real chocolate cake that they make but just more yummy because its homemade!

	12 April 2011	From: Chloe
This cake was amazing! Usually when i bake cakes they are too heavy but I couldn't believe how light and fluffy it came out! THANK YOU!

	7 May 2011	From: Maz
I've made this cake so many times with the fudge topping. My friends go mad for it. So easy to adapt.

	27 May 2011	From: Sam G THE 1
Fantastic!!!!! My wife & Mother n law were well impressed!

	02 June 2011	From: shoosh4
OMG, I've tasted a lot of chocolate cakes before, but so far this is the best, love it!! Easy to bake too XD.

	16 July 2011	From: Lisa Renee
I am a high school student and since I practiced your recipe I am a favourite of everyone.

	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.

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