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Chocolate cake recipe🎂

Hey girls💜

Who all love baking & cooking?

Today I'm here with chocolate cake recipe for you'll....so let's start

Ingredients:-

3 large eggs175g (6 oz) self-raising flour175g (6 oz)caster sugar175g (6 oz) softened butter1½ level tsp baking powder40g (1½ oz) cocoa powder4 tbsp boiling water4 tbsp apricot jam

For chocolate icing:-

150ml (5fl oz) double cream150g (5oz) plain chocolate, broken into piecesA little icing sugar, to serveSpecial Bakeware / Equipment2 x 17cm (7 in) deep sandwich tins, greased and lined with non-stick baking paperElectric whisk

Equipment:-

2 x 17cm (7 in) deep sandwich tins, greased and lined with non-stick baking paperElectric whisk

METHOD:-

Preheat the oven to 180C, gas 4. Beat together the eggs, flour, caster sugar, butter, and baking powder until smooth in a large mixing bowl.

Put the cocoa powder in a separate mixing bowl, and add the water a little at a time to make a stiff paste. Add to the cake mixture.

Turn into the prepared tins, level the top, and bake in the preheated oven for about 20-25 mins, or until shrinking away from the sides of the tin and springy to the touch.

Leave to cool in the tin, then turn on to a wire rack to become completely cold before icing.

To make the icing: measure the cream and chocolate into a bowl and carefully melt over a pan of hot water over a low heat, or gently in the microwave for 1 min (600w microwave). Stir until melted, then set aside to cool a little and to thicken up.

To ice the cake: spread the apricot jam on the top of each cake. Spread half of the ganache icing on the top of the jam on one of the cakes, then lay the other cake on top, sandwiching them together.

Use the remaining ganache icing to ice the top of the cake in a swirl pattern. Dust with icing sugar to serve.

TIPS FOR MAKING CHOCOLATE CAKE:-

1-How do I stop chocolate cake from cracking?

If your and often crack, you could be putting them on the wrong shelf in your oven.To avoid cakes cracking don't bake them too high in the oven. If you do the crust forms too soon and cracks as the cake continues to rise.

2-How do you make a chocolate cake moist?

There are a few things you can try to ensure your chocolate cake is moist after baking. Make sure you bake the mixture as soon as it's mixed and resist opening the oven door until it's at least three quarters cooked. Also, avoid adding too much cocoa powder - stick to the chocolate cake recipe measurements, as too much powder will make it dry.

3-How do i cover a chocolate cake with icing?

When making the icing add the liquid gradually to the icing sugar this will make sure the icing is thicker and doesn't run off the sponge.

Hope you liked it:)

Do try it & tell me how it goes

Bubayee 

Riya signing off✍