Chocolate Butter Cake recipe

Chocolate Cake

Chocolate cake and chocolate cake recipe. Easy chocolate cake recipe that calls for rich chocolate, butter, flour, and sugar to make chocolate cake.

Ingredients:

250g Butter
180g Castor Sugar
4 large eggs
200g Dark Chocolate
220g Cake Flour
1 tsp Baking Powder
1/2 tsp Baking Soda
2Tbsp Chocolate Powder
250ml Fresh Milk

Ganache Topping:

200g Dark Cooking Chocolate
1/2 cup whipping cream
50g butter

Method:

Melt the cooking chocolate in a double boiler. Set aside to cool.

Beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy.

Add in eggs one at a time beating well after each addition.

Pour in melted chocolate.

Fold in flour in 3 batches and alternate with milk.

Bake at a preheated oven at 160 degree Celsius for about 50 minutes. Test with a skewer, the skewer must come out clean.

Remove and let it cool before putting the topping.

Making the ganache:

Put chocolate, whipping cream and butter in a heatproof bowl over simmering water and stir until melted and smooth.

Let it cool slightly and spread on to the cake evenly.

Serve.

Since young, I have always been a chocolate lover and eating chocolate always make me feel happy. Chocolate Cake is of course one of my favorites but I have been putting off the idea of baking it as it can get quite messy at times. I came across the lovely chocolate cake on Little Teochew and decided to put my hands into baking it.

Chocolate cake is a very rich cake. To get a good chocolate cake you must use very good quality chocolate. I used Valrhona Equatoriale 55% as suggested by Little Teochew and the cake turned out heavenly. The taste is just so perfect, you get the texture of a moist chocolate cake and not too sweet. Give this chocolate cake recipe a try over the weekend and you will definitely get lots of gleeful smiles from your loved ones.