Chocolate cake recipes?

[Petala]

Does anyone have a good basic moist chocolate cake recipe?

[Sammi Jane]

Try the Taste website - it's a great website with heaps of recipes and comments from people who've made them. There's a few good recipes on there for chocolate cakes.

Enjoy!

[Netix]

Hey Petala!
Here is one that I make. Its very easy and yummy! I have meant to post this recipe before, but have never got around to doing it.

Simple Chocolate Cake
1/4 cup butter, softened
1 cup sugar
1tsp vanilla essence
2 eggs, lightly beaten
1 1/4 cups self raising flour
3 tbsp cocoa powder
1 tsp bicarbonate soda
1 cup milk

Chocolate Butter Icing
1/2 cup dark chocolate
3 tbsp butter
1/4 cup double cream

Cake:
Preheat oven to 180 degrees.
Place the butter, sugar and vanilla essence in a bowl and beat until light and fluffy. Gradually beat in the eggs.
Sift in the flour, cocoa powder and bicarbonate soda together into a bowl. Fold the flour mixture and the milk alternately into the egg mixture.
Pour the mixture into a greased and lined 18cm square cake tin and bake for 40 minutes or until the cake is cooked when tested with a skewer. Stand the cake in the tin for 5 minutes before turning onto a wire rack to cool.

Chocolate Butter Icing:
Place the chocolate, butter and cream in a heatproof bowl, set over a saucepan of simmering water. Heat, stirring constantly, until the mixture is smooth. Remove the bowl from the pan and set aside to cool slightly. Spread the top and sides of the cake with the icing and leave to set completely.

When I make this cake, I don't use a mixer (as I don't own one). I just mix it really well with a spatula. It does the trick (and less washing up!). I also have a fan forced oven, and bake it for 35 minutes at 160 degrees. Also, I usually can't be bothered waiting for the cake to cool to ice it, or to even make the icing, so instead dust the cake with icing sugar or a mixture of icing sugar and cocoa powder. Its very yummy this way while its still warm served with ice cream!
Hope you enjoy it.

[Petala]

Oh, ta.....have found a couple I will try out....yummm

[Petala]

I tried your Simple Chocolate Cake, Netix......worked well, was all gone in two days with no icing either! Thanks

[Netix]

Glad it worked for you Petala. I always get a bit nervous that when I post a recipe that it will fail whoever is making it.

[smylie]

Here is an even simpler recipe.... it is my Uncle's recipe and he used to make it when he was 10 or something!

Tom's Chocolate Cake

3 tablespoons cocoa
3 oz melted butter
1 cup SR flour
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup milk
2 eggs
Vanilla essence

Sift dry ingredients, Add the rest and beat together
Cook in moderate oven for 30-40 mins

enjoy!

[MamaPan]

netix- it is in the oven now, hope it works out (had to make a few subs - make my own sr flour and skip the bicarb so hope it is ok!)

[Kazbah]

I've tried this one and its great, also works well with milk or dark chocolate.

Ingredients
185 g butter
1/2 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla
3 eggs
150 g NESTLÉ PLAISTOWE White Cooking Chocolate
1 3/4 cups self-raising flour
1/4 cup milk
200 g NESTLÉ PLAISTOWE White Cooking Chocolate
1/4 cup cream


Preparation Time: 20 minutes
Cooking Time: 50 minutes
Method
Preheat oven to 180ºC.
Beat butter and sugar until creamy, beat in vanilla and eggs one at a time. Beat in NESTLÉ Plaistowe White Cooking Chocolate.
Fold in sifted flour alternately with milk.
Grease 23 cm deep round cake pan, line base with greased paper. Spoon cake mixture evenly into pan.
Bake 45-50 minutes until cooked. If cake becomes too dark, cover loosely with aluminium foil after 30 minutes.
Combine cream and melted NESTLÉ Plaistowe White Cooking Chocolate and beat until thick but runny and pour over the top. If desired serve with fresh berries

I have discovered that just swirling in melted chocolate doesn't work - what I do sometimes is divide the mixutre in 2 and add white choc to one half (with the cream) and milk choc to the other, and pour into pan to gently swirl together.

[Deltadawn]

Hi Petala. The BEST chocolate cake I have ever had, believe it or not, is a packet cake mix.

My BF made it one day and I totally refused to believe it came from a packet until she fished the packet out of the bin for me. It is a "Greens" brand and I believe it is called Double Chocolate for memory. It comes with the frosting. I have made it a few times and a lot of people comment on it. For an extra decadent cake, buy two packets and make a double cake with the frosting in the middle. No one will believe it comes from a packet.

[Phteven]

please do share.

I'm feeling slack for buying a cake to decorate for Yasin's birthday tomorrow but don't feel like making my usual Nigella Cherry Chocolate cake.......

[Kazbah]

white choc cake -
I got this off the nestle site, but i divide the mixture in 2 lots and add in half white choc and half dark choc, the swirl together in the tin.

Ingredients
185 g butter
1/2 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla
3 eggs
150 g NESTLÉ PLAISTOWE White Cooking Chocolate
1 3/4 cups self-raising flour
1/4 cup milk
200 g NESTLÉ PLAISTOWE White Cooking Chocolate
1/4 cup cream

Preparation Time: 20 minutes
Cooking Time: 50 minutes

Method
Preheat oven to 180ºC.
Beat butter and sugar until creamy, beat in vanilla and eggs one at a time. Beat in melted NESTLÉ Plaistowe White Cooking Chocolate.
Fold in sifted flour alternately with milk.
Grease 23 cm deep round cake pan, line base with greased paper. Spoon cake mixture evenly into pan.
Bake 45-50 minutes until cooked. If cake becomes too dark, cover loosely with aluminium foil after 30 minutes.
Combine cream and melted NESTLÉ Plaistowe White Cooking Chocolate and beat until thick but runny and pour over the top. If desired serve with fresh berries

[MrsFabuloso]

Mmmmmm, Kaz your cake sounds devine!!!!!!!!!!! *drrrooooolll*


RICH CHOCOLATE CAKE

Ingredients (serves 12)
200g good-quality dark chocolate, chopped
200g butter, softened
1 cup dark brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 eggs, at room temperature
1 1/2 cups self-raising flour
2 tablespoons cocoa powder
1/2 cup milk
chocolate curls or shavings (optional),
Chocolate icing
200g good-quality dark chocolate, chopped
1/2 cup thickened cream
Method
Make chocolate icing: Combine chocolate and cream in a heatproof, microwave-safe bowl. Microwave, uncovered, on MEDIUM-HIGH (70%) for 1 to 2 minutes, stirring every minute with a metal spoon, until almost melted. Stir until smooth. Set aside for 30 minutes or until thick enough to spread.
Preheat oven to 170°C. Grease and line base and side of a 6cm deep, 22cm (base) round cake pan.
Place chocolate in a heatproof, microwave-safe bowl. Microwave, uncovered, on MEDIUM (50%) for 1 to 2 minutes, stirring every minute with a metal spoon, until almost melted. Stir until smooth. Set aside for 10 minutes to cool.
Using an electric mixer, cream butter, sugar and vanilla until light and fluffy. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating after each addition. Add melted chocolate. Beat until well combined. Sift flour and cocoa together. Fold half the flour mixture into butter mixture. Add half the milk. Stir gently to combine. Repeat with remaining flour mixture and milk. Spoon into prepared pan. Smooth surface. Bake for 50 to 60 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.
Stand cake in pan for 15 minutes. Turn out onto a wire rack to cool completely. Spread icing over top and side.

[Kazbah]

Mmmm, I would try yours Kellie, but only if I go to mums' group on Friday

[Rouge]

I've merged your thread with this one Lenny, thanks Kazbah!

[Lenny]

Thanks Cai,
That's perfect as i bought 250gms of cooking choc (and i may have nibbled on a bit of it by now!)

[Lenny]

Hi,
Can someone please help me?
I bought some cooking chocolate the other day thinking I would make a nice chocolate cake using it. But I don’t seem to have any recipes that make chocolate cakes using real chocolate.

Can someone please 'lend' me theirs!

TIA
Jo