Easy Chocolate Cake
ABC NSW radio 1233 with John Clark on 4 May 2009
EASY CHOCOLATE CAKE
Chocolate cake flowerpot
Cooking suggestion: Flowerpot cakes
Lightly spray 10cm diameter terra cotta pots with oil. Line with baking paper if preferred.
Decorate with chopped nuts to resemble small stones.Once cooked cake is cooled, decorate with icing flowers.
Attach icing flowers (available from most supermarkets) to toothpicks or bamboo skewers with a blob of royal icing. Leave to dry and set.
Chocolate teacup cakes
Cooking suggestion: Teacup cakes
Lightly spray ovenproof teacups with oil.
Once the cooked cakes are cooled, decorate with icing flowers (available from most supermarkets).
Alternatively, cover the cake top with whipped cream sprinkled with sifted cocoa to resemble a cappaucino.
Easy Chocolate Cake recipe
Ingredients
2 cups sifted plain flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
155g butter or margarine, softened
2 cups sugar
3 teaspoons vanilla essence
2 eggs
2/3 cup sifted cocoa
1 ¼ cups milk
Method
Sift together flour and baking powder. Beat butter, sugar and vanilla until fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in cocoa. Add milk alternately with sifted dry ingredients in 3 lots, beating well after each addition. Pour into a 9 cup cake tin, lightly greased or lined with baking paper. Bake in a moderate oven (180ºC / fan forced 160ºC) until skewer inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean, about 1 hour. Cool cake in tin for 2 minutes before turning onto a wire rack to cool.
Notes:
When trying to cook in a new oven I found a few extra steps helped keep the cake moist, especially for larger cakes if the recipe was doubled. Line the tin with Glad Bake or greaseproof paper and lay a sheet across the top of the cake mix. Wrap the tin in a layer of brown paper which allows the cake to cook more slowly. Remove cake from oven as soon as it is ’just’ cooked.
Turn the cake onto a rack but leave it in the tin so the cake virtually steams in tin. (This is why the cake should not cook over the ‘just ’cooked stage). Turning it upside down also flattens the cake, which can be useful if the cake is to be decorated.
Cut the cake in half horizontally and fill with chocolate ganache (heat equal quantities of cream and good quality dark chocolate until chocolate melts).
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One Response to “Easy Chocolate Cake”
Tracey Ross - November 20, 2017
Caught the end of your segment on talking lifestyle about a ricotta cheesecake and was wondering if you could forward me the recipe please. Kind Regards
Tracey
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