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Chocolate Cake

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A simple chocolate cake recipe

  • Servings: ?
  • Calories per serving: Hahahahaha

Utencils Needed

  • Springform cake pan, 9 inch
  • Parchment paper
  • Large mixing bowl
  • Small mixing bowl
  • Hand mixer (or stand mixer)
  • Wire rack
  • Something to spread frosting (a butter knife may do?)
  • Grater (a fine one, like you'd use for ginger but here you're using it for chocolate)

Ingredients

Cake

  • 300g all-purpose flour
  • 80g cocoa powder
  • 2tsp baking powder
  • 3 quarters of a tsp baking soda (aka bicarbonate soda)
  • 1.5tsp fine sea salt
  • 150g brown sugar
  • 220g granulated white sugar
  • 110ml of neutral tasting oil
    • Vegetable oil?
  • 2 egg yolks
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1 tbsp vanilla extract
  • 415ml whole milk

Frosting

  • 500g icing sugar sugar (aka powdered sugar)
  • 55g cocoa powder
  • Generous pinch of sea salt
  • 110g softened, unsalted butter
  • 60-120ml wholemilk to thin
  • Plain or dark milk chocolate bar

Preparation

  • Leave the butter out to soften for ~1 hour before you start the icing step(at least 40 minutes if you're time pressured)
  • Separate 2 egg yolks
  • Begin heating oven to 175C

Cooking

Cake base

  • Prepare baking tray
    • Cut out a piece of parchment paper to fit your springform pan
    • Place the paper in the pan and grease the top of it
    • Ensure the mixing paper is flat and reaches the edges
    • Grease the edges of the pan
  • Prepare cake mix
    • Sift 300g of all-purpose flour into mixing bowl
    • Sift in 80g of cocoa powder
    • Sift in 2tsp of baking powder
    • Sift in 3/4 of a tsp of baking soda
    • Add 1.5tsp of fine sea salt
    • Add 220g granulated white sugar
    • Add 150g brown sugar
    • Whisk until thoroughly combined
  • Prepare custard
    • Add two egg yolks to small mixing bowl
    • Start whisking together
    • While doing so slowly drizzle in 110ml of neutral-flavoured oil
    • When it starts to get too thick add 1tbsp vanilla extract
    • Continue mixing in the oil until all of it is added
    • After all of it has been added add two eggs and whisk all of it together
  • Add custard to cake mix and mix it together, should become thick and clumpy
  • Heat 415ml of whole milk until it has just about begun to simmer, do not boil.
  • Whisk the milk into the cake mix until it is thoroughly incorporated and very smooth
  • For each half of the cake mix...
    • Pour into prepared cake pan
    • Stick it in the oven for 30-35 minutes
      • Inserted toothpick should come out clean when finished
    • Leave to cool on wire rack

Frosting

  • Make powdered sugar mixture
    • In large mixing bowl mix together 500g icing sugar, 55g cocoa powder, and a generous pinch of sea salt
    • Whisk all together until throughly mixed
  • Using mixer beat 110g softened, unsalted butter until creamy
  • Beat in powdered sugar mixture in batches
  • Once thoroughly combined begin thinning out with whole milk
    • Use 60-120ml, stop when it's thick yet easily spreadable

Construct cake

  • Place one cake base flat side up and spread ~230ml of your frosting on top
  • Spread it out evenly
  • Add the other cake base flat side down on top
  • Gently press down until it's well glued
  • Spread the rest of the icing across the top and sides
    • Seal the edges completely
    • if the top looks a bit boring use a spoon to make waves in the frosting
  • Grate the chocolate bar over the top, covering the cake frosting in chocolate flakes

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