Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, chocolate cake. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Chocolate Cake is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Chocolate Cake is something that I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
Historically, red velvet cake was just chocolate cake tinted red from the acid in cocoa powder, not from food coloring. Nowadays most cocoa powders are alkalized, as in stripped of acid. Look for a non-alkalized one for this old-fashioned recipe. Completing the classic look is a coat of bright white ermine frosting, cooked the old-fashioned way.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook chocolate cake using 19 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Chocolate Cake:
- Take Cake
- Take 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- Make ready 2 cups granulated sugar
- Make ready 3/4 cups cocoa powder
- Make ready 2 tsp baking soda
- Make ready 1 tsp baking powder
- Prepare 1 tsp salt
- Get 1 cup buttermilk
- Take 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- Take 2 large egg
- Prepare 1 tsp vanilla
- Get 1 cup coffee, cooled
- Take Frosting
- Make ready 6 ounces semi-sweet chocololate
- Take 2 sticks unsalted butter, room temperature
- Get 3 cups powdered sugar
- Take 1 tsp vanilla
- Take 1/2 cup sour cream
- Take Pinch salt
Stir until just melted and set aside until cooled to room temperature. In the bowl of an electric mixer. Stir together sugar, flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt in large bowl. Stir in boiling water (batter will be thin).
Instructions to make Chocolate Cake:
- Pre-heat oven to 170 degrees Celsius. Butter 2 8-inch round cake pan. Line the bottom with parchment paper.
- For the cake: Mix all dry ingredients. In a separate bowl, mix all the wet ingredients except for the coffee. Combine the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients. Mix until well combined. Add the coffee inti the mixture and mix well making sure that there are no dry pockets in the cake batter.
- Divide the batter evenly between two pan. Bake for 35-50 minutes or until the toothpick comes out without wet batter clinging to it.
- Partially let the cakes cool down then take it out of the pan and let cool completely on a cooling rack.
- For the frosting: melt the chocolate on a double boiler until smooth. Set aside to partially cool down.
- Cream the butter with a stand or hand mixer. Gradually add the powdered sugar, salt and vanilla and mix until well combined.
- Whisk in sour cream into the melted chocolate. Mix well until both ingredients are almost at room temperature and then pour the chocolate mixture into the butter mixture. Mix well until well combined and fluffy.
- To assemble, place one cake at the bottom and place a frosting on top before adding the next cake on top. Do a crumb frosting and then refrigerate for 10-15 minutes. Complete the frosting afterwards. Decorate as desired.
Stir together sugar, flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt in large bowl. Stir in boiling water (batter will be thin). Our chocolate cake recipes include: easy one-bowl recipes, tiered cakes with frostings and fillings, mini cupcakes, Texas sheet cake, as well as gluten-free chocolate cakes and vegan chocolate cake. Frost cake with Chocolate Buttercream Frosting. It is a simple recipe, calling for ingredients you most likely have in your pantry and fridge, including flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking powder and soda, eggs, milk, and vanilla extract.
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