Recipe: Appetizing Simple Chocolate Cake Recipe

Simple Chocolate Cake Recipe.

You can cook Simple Chocolate Cake Recipe using 9 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Simple Chocolate Cake Recipe

1. Prepare 115 g of plain chocolate, chopped into Small pieces.
2. You need 3 lt of milk.
3. Prepare 150 g of unsalted butter or margarine, softened.
4. Prepare 150 g of sugar.
5. You need 3 of eggs.
6. You need 200 g of aising flour.
7. It's 1 tbsp of cocoa Powder.
8. Prepare of Icing sugar and cocoa powder, for dusting.
9. Prepare 1 of quantity Chocolate Buttercream, for the filling.

Simple Chocolate Cake Recipe step by step

1. Preheat oven to 180C / 350F / Gas 4. Grease two 18 cm/7 in round sandwich cake tins and line the base of each with non-stick baking paper. Select a small saucepan and a heatproof bowl that will fit over it. Place the chocolate and the milk in the bowl. Bring a small saucepan of water to just blow simmering point. Place the bowl containing the chocolate mixture on top. Leave for about 5 minutes, until the chocolate softens, then stir until smooth..
2. Cream the butter or margarine with the sugar in a mixing bowl until pale and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Stir in the chocolate mixture until well combined..
3. Sift the and coca over the mixture and fold in with a metal spoon until evenly mixed. Scrape into the prepared tins, smooth level and bake for 35 -40 minutes or until well risen and firm. Turn out on to wire racks to cool..
4. Sandwich the cake layers together with a thick, even layer of chocolate buttercream. Dust with a mixture of icing sugar and cocoa just before serving..