Recipe: Tasty Chocolate Cake

Chocolate Cake.

You can have Chocolate Cake using 15 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Chocolate Cake

1. It's 250 g of butter at room temp.
2. It's 200 g of dark chocolate.
3. Prepare 1 1/2 tsp of instant coffee dissolved in 350ml boiling water.
4. It's 250 g of caster sugar.
5. You need 2 of eggs beaten.
6. Prepare 2 tsp of vanilla bean paste.
7. Prepare 30 g of cocoa powder.
8. It's 240 g of plain flour.
9. It's 3 tsp of baking powder.
10. Prepare Pinch of salt.
11. It's of Chocolate Buttercream.
12. You need 100 g of dark chocolate.
13. You need 130 g of butter (room temp).
14. Prepare 220 g of icing sugar.
15. Prepare 1 tsp of vanilla essence.

Chocolate Cake step by step

1. Heat oven to 150c and grease 2 x 23cm cake tins.
2. 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.
3. Add the sugar and whisk until dissolved..
4. Add eggs and vanilla and whisk until thoroughly combined..
5. Sift in the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and salt and whisk until combined..
6. 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).
7. 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..
8. 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. 😋.