Chocolate Cake
Indulge in the decadent, rich flavors of this classic chocolate cake with a luscious buttercream filling. Velvety dark chocolate combines with fluffy buttercream to create a dessert that is pure bliss on your taste buds. With each bite, you'll savor the moist, tender crumb of the cake and the creamy sweetness of the filling. Treat yourself and your loved ones to this irresistible homemade delight that is sure to impress at any gathering.
— Constant Cookbook
Ingredients
- 125 g dark chocolate
- 3 tablespoons of milk
- 150 g butter
- 150 g caster sugar
- 3 eggs
- 200g plain flour
- 1tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 1 tbsp cocoa powder
- 2 x 20cm cake tin buttered and lined with grease proof paper
- Pre heated oven 180 - 25 mins
- chocolate butter cream filling
- 75 g butter
- tbsp cream
- tsp vanilla extract
- tbsp cocoa powder
- 175g icing sugar sifted
Instructions
- put the chocolate and the milk in a bowl on top of a saucepan of boiling water - allow chocolate to melt
- butter in a mixing bowl beat the butter, add sugar continue to beat - beat till creamy
- add one egg at a time, beat till creamy add other egg add chocolate into the butter and egg mix and stir
- sift in flour with baking powder and bicarbonate of soda and cocoa powder - sift them all in - stir in gently folding it all in - divide into the two cake tins - make a slight hollow in one cake to help when sandwiching together - bake for 25 mins check with a skewer it should come out clean
- Butter Cream - put the butter in a mixing bowl with cream and beat, add the vanilla then cocoa powder and icing sugar - sandwich two cakes together with the butter cream
- when the cake is finished sift icing sugar over the top
Yield
Serves 6
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