Sunday, January 23, 2011

Chocolate Cake

Chocolate Cake

Ingredients
For Cake

  • 125g butter
  • 2 tbsp. cocoa powder
  • ½ cup milk
  • 2 eggs
  • 150g caster sugar
  • 130g self raising flour


For Icing

  • 1 cup icing sugar
  • 2 tbsp. cocoa powder
  • 20g butter
  • 2 tbsp. boiling water


Instructions
For Cake

  1. Combine butter, cocoa powder and milk in a saucepan, stir mixture under low heat until butter is melted.
  2. Grease cake pan and preheat oven to 180°C.
  3. Beat eggs until creamy, gradually add in sugar and mix well.
  4. Fold in self raising flour and cocoa mixture.
  5. Pour mixture into cake pan and bake for 35 minutes.
  6. Cool cake for 5 minutes and place cake on a wire rack for icing.


For Icing

  1. Combine butter and cocoa powder.
  2. Stir well with boiling water until smooth.
  3. Pour mixture over the cake when ready.


Notes

  • Feel free to add more cocoa powder for a richer taste and firmer texture.


Reference



Cake turns out very nice, I added extra cocoa and it turns out to be really nice with the rich chocolate taste and it's a lot less sweeter too. The texture of the cake is just nice, it is not too dry but hold wells and will not crumble easily.

^StarrY^

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