How to Make Chocolate Cake
Everyone loves a chocolate cake, and chocolate lovers especially so. Finding the right recipe for how to make chocolate cake can be more of a minefield. There are countless variations and different styles of recipe, but the following one has become very popular and will deliver the results every time.
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They are all basic ingredients and you will make two halves, then you can put a filling in between the two halves. This can be anything you like, whatever delicacies you prefer. Perhaps cream and cherries for a black forest gateaux type of dessert? Likewise, whether or not you choose to ice the cake or put anything else on top is entirely up to you. The final result does not need to be the prettiest in the world; in this case it is, after all, the taste that matters.
How to make chocolate cake and keep it even simpler? By using the traditional method for baking a Victoria sponge you will only need a few simple ingredients and a very easy method. For a 7-8 inch cake tin take four eggs and weigh them, shell on. Whatever their weight measure out the same weight of self-raising flour, sugar and butter; so for example, if your four eggs weigh 150grams weigh out 150grams of the other ingredients. This is all you will need, aside from a little vanilla extract and some cocoa powder.
Cream together the butter and sugar until it is smooth and looks pale. Then, beat in one egg at a time until you have a smooth mixture and the eggs are fully combined. At this point add a teaspoon of vanilla extract; this gives the cake an additional flavour that can seem missing without it. How to make chocolate cake perfect is to fold in the flour and cocoa powder using folding and cutting movements so that you don’t knock the air out of the mixture. Divide it between the two sandwich tins and bake it at 190C until it is done, this will depend on the volume of your own mixture, as it will vary between each person, depending on the weight of their eggs.
To be certain on how to make chocolate cake that is cooked all of the way through you can use a simple test. To test whether it is fully cooked in the middle use one of following two methods, or both. You can gently press the centre of the cake with a finger and if it springs back then it is ready. Alternatively, place a skewer in the centre of the cake and if it comes out clean, with no mixture on it, then it is done.
