Today I'll describe one of my favorite recipes. I learned it from the book that my parents gave me over 10 years ago and I still haven't found any better recipe for chocolate cake. Since the name of the book was "Learning to cook" it is clear that recipe is pretty easy. First time I made this chocolate cake for my sister's birthday. She liked it so much that she asked me to make another one so she could share it with her friends at the university. I spent some more hours by the stove, but my cake had a great success the next day. Later I tried lots of other chocolate cake recipes, but none of them were as soft and moist as this one. This time I didn't want to make big cake, so I made little cupcakes, but the recipe is the same.
You'll need
For dough
250g of flour
pinch of salt
2 tea spoons of baking soda
2 tea spoons of baking powder
6 soup spoons of cacao powder
300 g of butter
300 g of sugar
2 tea spoons of vanilla sugar
6 eggs
For chocolate glaze
200 g of dark chocolate
100 g of heavy cream
This amount of ingredients is used for a big chocolate cake. To make 12 cupcakes I took 2/3 of all the ingredients.
Making dough
1. Sift all dry ingredients for a dough: flour, baking soda, baking powder, cacao powder and salt
2. In another bowl mix eggs, sugar and soft butter
3. Add dry ingredients into egg-sugar-butter mixture by portions. After each portion mix everything drawing eights. (8) This way dough will get air and it will rise better during baking.
4. Ready chocolate dough should look like this (have a consistence of sour cream)
5. Then, if you want to make chocolate cake divide the dough into two parts and bake in a baking form about 20-30 minutes at 180C. (try if it is ready with a knife)
I made this dough to make cupcakes, so I put it in a cupcake form and baked them.
Making chocolate glaze
To make glaze you need to put chocolate and heavy cream in a little bowl. Then boil some water in a metal pot and put the bowl with chocolate and cream on top of it. I usually do it like that (there is chocolate and butter on the picture, this picture is for another recipe, I put it here to illustrate how it is done)
While water in a metal pot is boiling, it is heating the bottom of the bowl on top and chocolate melts. Don't forget to mix the glaze. It will be ready when the chocolate melts completely. Then take the bowl from stove and cool it down. If you want to make chocolate cake use 1/3 of glaze between cake layers and 2/3 to cover the top and sides of the cake. This is how the cake looks if you use all the ingredients
In cake below I used 2/3 of ingredients for dough, there were also 2 layers, in the middle I used the same glaze only with white chocolate and decorated cake with lady fingers. I took it to work for my last birthday and everyone liked it.
If you're making cupcakes, use glaze to cover their tops.
Of course you can improvise - you can put some chocolate pieces in a cupcakes, add some nuts in a glaze, moisture cake with juice or liquor. It will make it only better! Don't be afraid to use your imagination, I am sure that it will be worth it.
You'll need
For dough
250g of flour
pinch of salt
2 tea spoons of baking soda
2 tea spoons of baking powder
6 soup spoons of cacao powder
300 g of butter
300 g of sugar
2 tea spoons of vanilla sugar
6 eggs
For chocolate glaze
200 g of dark chocolate
100 g of heavy cream
This amount of ingredients is used for a big chocolate cake. To make 12 cupcakes I took 2/3 of all the ingredients.
Making dough
1. Sift all dry ingredients for a dough: flour, baking soda, baking powder, cacao powder and salt
2. In another bowl mix eggs, sugar and soft butter
3. Add dry ingredients into egg-sugar-butter mixture by portions. After each portion mix everything drawing eights. (8) This way dough will get air and it will rise better during baking.
4. Ready chocolate dough should look like this (have a consistence of sour cream)
5. Then, if you want to make chocolate cake divide the dough into two parts and bake in a baking form about 20-30 minutes at 180C. (try if it is ready with a knife)I made this dough to make cupcakes, so I put it in a cupcake form and baked them.
Making chocolate glaze
To make glaze you need to put chocolate and heavy cream in a little bowl. Then boil some water in a metal pot and put the bowl with chocolate and cream on top of it. I usually do it like that (there is chocolate and butter on the picture, this picture is for another recipe, I put it here to illustrate how it is done)
While water in a metal pot is boiling, it is heating the bottom of the bowl on top and chocolate melts. Don't forget to mix the glaze. It will be ready when the chocolate melts completely. Then take the bowl from stove and cool it down. If you want to make chocolate cake use 1/3 of glaze between cake layers and 2/3 to cover the top and sides of the cake. This is how the cake looks if you use all the ingredients
In cake below I used 2/3 of ingredients for dough, there were also 2 layers, in the middle I used the same glaze only with white chocolate and decorated cake with lady fingers. I took it to work for my last birthday and everyone liked it.
If you're making cupcakes, use glaze to cover their tops.
Of course you can improvise - you can put some chocolate pieces in a cupcakes, add some nuts in a glaze, moisture cake with juice or liquor. It will make it only better! Don't be afraid to use your imagination, I am sure that it will be worth it.
