Chocolate Cake
Steps Cook Recipes Chocolate Cake using 15 ingredients and 8 steps
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You can have Chocolate Cake using 15 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients cook Chocolate Cake
- Prepare 250 g butter at room temp.
- It's 200 g dark chocolate.
- It's 1 1/2 tsp instant coffee dissolved in 350ml boiling water.
- You need 250 g caster sugar.
- Prepare 2 eggs beaten.
- Prepare 2 tsp vanilla bean paste.
- Prepare 30 g cocoa powder.
- Prepare 240 g plain flour.
- Prepare 3 tsp baking powder.
- You need Pinch salt.
- Prepare Chocolate Buttercream.
- Prepare 100 g dark chocolate.
- It's 130 g butter (room temp).
- Prepare 220 g icing sugar.
- You need 1 tsp vanilla essence.
Chocolate Cake instructions
- 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. 😋.
Chocolate Cake - Thank you and good luck