Recipe: Chocolate Cake Recipe

Recipe: Chocolate Cake Recipe

2 cups flour
125 grams chocolate (squares)
3 eggs
1 cup softened butter
1 cup sugar
2 tbsp cocoa powder
¼ cup milk

Preheat oven to 180 degrees C. Grease two cake tins of 7 inch diameter.
Melt the chocolate in a bowl set over a deep pan of boiling water.
Cream together butter and sugar and add the eggs one at a time, beating well. Add the melted chocolate and beat till well combined.
Sift the flour and cocoa powder together and fold into the chocolate-egg-sugar-butter mix. Don’t beat too much. After the mixture is blended well, pour into the baking tin . Bake for about 45 minutes, or till well risen.

For the sandwich icing :
100 grams unsalted butter
1 and a ½ cup icing sugar
1 tbsp cocoa powder
½ tsp vanilla essence
Beat together all these ingredients to form a light chocolate cream. Use to sandwich the two cakes together.
The top layer can be either dusted with castor sugar or cocoa powder, or both, Stencils may be used for decorating further.
For a different look, and in a bid to be creative as Chef Sacher, try using apricot or raspberry jam to sandwich layers, alternating with chocolate cream, white cream or plain chocolate layers, before closing with the second cake layer. Icing can also be made to have a royal touch if chocolate cream is poured over this whole cake sandwich.