Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, chocolate cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Chocolate Cake is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Chocolate Cake is something which I have loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have chocolate cake using 15 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Chocolate Cake:
- Prepare 250 g butter at room temp
- Take 200 g dark chocolate
- Take 1 1/2 tsp instant coffee dissolved in 350ml boiling water
- Get 250 g caster sugar
- Make ready 2 eggs beaten
- Make ready 2 tsp vanilla bean paste
- Prepare 30 g cocoa powder
- Make ready 240 g plain flour
- Prepare 3 tsp baking powder
- Prepare Pinch salt
- Prepare Chocolate Buttercream
- Make ready 100 g dark chocolate
- Make ready 130 g butter (room temp)
- Make ready 220 g icing sugar
- Get 1 tsp vanilla essence
Instructions to make Chocolate Cake:
- Heat oven to 150c and grease 2 x 23cm cake tins
- 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
- Add the sugar and whisk until dissolved.
- Add eggs and vanilla and whisk until thoroughly combined.
- Sift in the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and salt and whisk until combined.
- 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)
- 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.
- 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. š
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