Hi All...Recipe For Chocolate Cake?!
Answers: I want to bake my husband a chocolate cake for his birthday. He likes the real icing-before whipped icing was created. Does anybody have a yummy cake recipe that isn't too hard to make? Thanks...
Old-Fashioned Chocolate Cake Recipe courtesy Nigella Lawson
Show: Nigella Feasts
Episode: Chocolate Heaven
Cake:
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup superfine sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/3 cup best-quality cocoa
1 1/2 sticks soft unsalted butter
2 large eggs
2 teaspoons good-quality vanilla extract
2/3 cup sour cream
Special equipment: 2 (each 8-inch diameter) layer tins with removable bases, buttered
Frosting:
6 ounces good-quality semisweet chocolate, broken into small pieces
3/4 stick unsalted butter
2 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
1 tablespoon light corn syrup
1/2 cup sour cream
1 teaspoon good-quality vanilla extract
Sugar flowers, to decorate, optional
Take everything out of the refrigerator so that all ingredients can come room temperature.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Put all the cake ingredients: flour, sugar, baking powder and soda, cocoa, butter, eggs, vanilla, and sour cream into a food processor and process until you have a smooth, thick batter. If you want to go the long way around, just mix the flour, sugar and leavening agents in a large bowl and beat in the soft butter until you have a combined and creamy mixture. Now whisk together the cocoa, sour cream, vanilla, and eggs and beat this into your bowl of mixture.
Divide this batter, using a rubber spatula to help you scrape and spread, into the prepared tins and bake until a cake tester comes out clean, which should be about 35 minutes, but it is wise to start checking at 25 minutes. Also, it might make sense to switch the 2 cakes around in the oven halfway through cooking time. Remove the cakes, in their tins, to a wire rack and let cool for 10 minutes before turning out of their tins. Don't worry about any cracks as they will easily be covered by the frosting later.
To make this icing, melt the chocolate and butter in a good-sized bowl either in the microwave or suspended over a pan of simmering water. Go slowly either way: you don't want any burning or seizing.
While the chocolate and butter is cooling a little, sieve the confectioners' sugar into another bowl. Or, easier still, put the icing sugar into the food processor and blitz to remove lumps.
Add the corn syrup to the cooled chocolate mixture, followed by the sour cream and vanilla and then when all this is combined whisk in the sieved confectioners' sugar. Or just pour this mixture down the funnel of the food processor onto the powdered sugar, with the motor running.
You may need to add a little boiling water, say a teaspoon or so, or indeed some more confectioners' sugar, depending on whether you need the frosting to be thiner or thicker. It should be liquid enough to coat easily, but thick enough not to drip off.
Choose your cake stand or plate and cut 4 strips of baking parchment to form a square and sit 1 of the cakes, uppermost (i.e. slightly domed) side down.
Spoon about 1/3 of the frosting onto the center of the cake-half and spread with a knife or spatula until you cover the top of it evenly. Sit the other cake on top, normal way up, pressing gently to sandwich the 2 together.
Spoon another 1/3 of the frosting onto the top of the cake and spread it in a swirly, textured way (though you can go for a smooth finish if you prefer, and have the patience). Spread the sides of the cake with icing and leave a few minutes until set, then carefully pull away the paper strips.
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my mom make a triple layer chocolate cake and it was delicious and moist
Easiest Chocolate Cake
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Buy a chocolate cake mix at a store and follow the directions on the box. xD
Take a look at this video... I am not a cake pro but this one is extremely easy:
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Always Enjoy!
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DECADENT CHOCOLATE CAKE WITH SAUCE
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup all-purpose flour or cake flour
4 eggs, separated
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
2 tbs. butter
2 tbs. corn syrup
Heat oven to 325°F.
Grease a spring form pan, 8x2 1/2 inches, or round pan 9x1 inches. Heat 1 cup of chocolate chips and 1/2 cup of butter in a 2-quart heavy saucepan over medium heat until chocolate chips are melted; cool 5 minutes. Stir in flour until smooth.
Stir in egg yolks until well blended. Beat egg whites in a large bowl on high speed until foamy. Beat in sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time, until soft peaks form. Fold chocolate mixture into egg whites. Spread in pan.
Bake spring form 35 to 40 minutes, or round cake pans for 30 to 35 minutes (top will appear dry and cracked) or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean; cool 10 minutes.
Run knife along side of cake to loosen; remove bottom of spring-form pan and cool cake completely. Place on serving plate.
Heat 1/2 cup chocolate chips, 2 tablespoons butter, and the corn syrup over medium heat until chocolate chips are melted.
Spread over top of cake, allowing some to drizzle down the side.
Makes 12 servings.
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5 MINUTE CHOCOLATE DECADENCE CAKE
1 pkg. chocolate cake mix
1 pkg. chocolate pudding mix (not instant)
1 pkg. chocolate morsels
1 c. walnuts, chopped
Milk for pudding mix
Prepare chocolate pudding mix as per package directions. Cool slightly. In bowl, combine cake mix and cooked pudding (DO NOT add egg or oil to cake mix as box directions say). Stir until well blended. Pour into greased and floured 9 x 13 inch baking dish. Sprinkle morsels and nuts on top. Bake at 350 degrees as per cake mix time recommends.
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EASY CHOCOLATE CAKE
1 c. mayonnaise
1/2 c. cocoa
1 c. sugar
2 c. flour
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. vanilla
2 tsp. soda in 1 c. water
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Sift dry ingredients together except the soda. Add to mayonnaise - alternately, flour, then water and soda.
Fold in 1 teaspoon vanilla and bake in moderate oven at 350 degrees F.
Bake 30 minutes in greased and floured 11 1/4 x 7 1/2 x 1 1/2 inch pan.
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DARK CHOCOLATE BUTTER CREAM FROSTING
2 2/3 c. confectioners' sugar
3/4 c. unsweetened cocoa
6 tbsp. butter
5-6 tbsp. milk
1 tsp. vanilla
Combine confectioners' sugar and cocoa in a small bowl. Cream butter with 1/2 cup of the cocoa mixture in a small bowl. Alternately add remaining cocoa mixture and milk; beat to spreading consistency. Stir in vanilla. For glazed frosting stir in 1 tablespoon corn syrup.
Makes about 2 cups.SDR
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Try this one if not they have lots of other AWESOME recipes!
Use a boxed cake and add 1/3 c milk and 1/2 of a SMALL box of jello instant pudding (chocolate of course). Bake as directed. the pudding makes the cake soooooooooo moist and delicious. Go to the allrecipes sight for the icing. I'd use the cream cheese recipe and add cocoa. try it!
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