Basic Chocolate Cake. Recipe courtesy of Food Network Kitchen. This is a rich and moist chocolate cake. It only takes a few minutes to prepare the batter. This cake will be printed out as my new basic chocolate cake. Everything about it was nice, I did add a.
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You can cook Basic Chocolate Cake using 12 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Basic Chocolate Cake
- You need 125 grams of Unsalted butter.
- It's 100 grams of Dark cooking chocolate, roughly broken up.
- Prepare 1 cup of Brown sugar.
- You need 1 cup of Self raising flour.
- It's 1/2 tsp of Bi-carbonate soda.
- Prepare 1/2 cup of Almond meal.
- It's 300 ml of Sour cream.
- It's 2 of Eggs, lightly beaten.
- Prepare 1 tsp of Vanilla essence.
- It's 1 of (Icing).
- You need 150 of Milk chocolate, chopped.
- You need 100 grams of Butter.
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Basic Chocolate Cake instructions
- (Cake) Preheat oven to 180°C. Grease and line a 20cm round cake tin..
- Place butter, chocolate and sugar in a medium sized saucepan. Cook over low heat, until butter melts and sugar has dissolved..
- Sift the plain flour, self raising flour and bicarb into the saucepan. Add almond meal, sour cream, eggs and vanilla essence. Mix well and pour into prepared pan and bake for 40-45 minutes..
- Cool slightly in the tin before turning onto a cooling rack. Let the cake cool then ice and decorate it..
- Icing: Place chocolate and butter in a heatproof bowl over simmering water. Cook until chocolate melts..
- Remove from heat and continue stirring until mixture thickens to an icing consistency..
- Really easy- I didn't even sift the flour and still turns out great. If I can cook it.... Also a great one to get the kids involved in helping..
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