Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, chocolate cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Chocolate cake is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Chocolate cake is something that I have loved my entire life.

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To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have chocolate cake using 8 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Chocolate cake:

1. Prepare 60 g Butter
2. Take 100-150 g Sugar
3. Make ready 1 Egg
4. Get 120 g Plain flour
5. Take 30 g Cocoa powder
6. Make ready 1 tsp Baking powder (or baking soda)
7. Get 90 ml Buttermilk (or 80 ml Milk + 10 ml Vinegar)
8. Make ready 90 ml Hot water

Remove the pan from the heat and whisk the mixture until smooth, glossy and thickened. How long does chocolate cake last? In a large bowl, beat together the butter and sugar until pale. Add all the remaining sponge ingredients and beat together until well combined.

Instructions to make Chocolate cake:

1. This is the ingredients. - If you don't have buttermilk, mix milk and vinegar before measuring other ingredients. (Or simply use milk/yogurt.). - If you prefer strong cocoa flavour, use baking powder rather than baking soda.
2. Spread oil in a cake tin. - Preheat oven at 170℃.
3. Soften butter with room temperature (or use microwave low power for 1 minute). Put butter and half sugar into a bowl and mix well.
4. Add eggs and rest of sugar and mix until smooth.
5. Shift flour, cocoa powder and baking powder together into the bowl in two additions, alternating with buttermilk.
6. Add hot water bit by bit and mix well.
7. Pour the batter into a cake tin. Bake it in the 170℃ oven for 35-40 minutes.
8. Check with a stick, if it's dry, it's done! (or touch sponge lightly if it bounce back.) - Once it's cooled down, enjoy with your favourite icing!
9. Here is my favourite icing with this chocolate cake. - [Cream cheese icing] - 100g Cream cheese - 30g Butter - 30g Icing sugar
10. It's good with some berries too! - [Mascarpone icing] - 150g Mascarpone - 20g Icing sugar
11. For chocolate lovers… - [Chocolate icing] - 100g Cream cheese - 50g Icing sugar - 30g Butter - 20g Cocoa powder

In a large bowl, beat together the butter and sugar until pale. Add all the remaining sponge ingredients and beat together until well combined. Melt the chocolate in a bowl over a pan of simmering water, then cool slightly. In a bowl, beat the butter and icing sugar together with an electric hand whisk until light and fluffy, then fold in the melted chocolate. Learn how to make the best chocolate cake ever!

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