Help please - Choc cake recipe

[Mum2Romone]

I would love to make a choclate cake today from scratch....

But I dont even know how to make a regular cake from scratch...

Any recipes or tips you can share with me ? I have plenty of cocoa and will make a choc icing (easy) but what actual ingredients and measurements would i need for the cake?

maybe its pregnancy brain.... maybe not

[~me~]

Moist Chocolate Cake from the Cadbury website, I have made this quite few times..very yummy!!

1 cup water
1 1/4 cups caster sugar
125g butter
1/2 cup cocoa powder
1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
1 1/4 cups SR flour sifted
2 eggs lightly beaten

Chocolate icing

200g dark cooking chocolate finely chopped
2/3 cup cream

Preheat oven 190deg
Line a 20cm cake ban base with baking paper and lightly grease sides of pan
Combine water, sugar, butter, cocoa and bicarb in medium saucepan; stir over heat, without bringing to boil, until sugar dissolves
Bring to boil, reduce heat and simmer uncovered for 2mins. Transfer to a bowl. Cool to room temperature (usually around 30mins).
Add flour and egg and beat until just combined
Pour into pan and bake 40mins. Cool in pan 10mins then turn onto cooling rack.

Chocolate Icing
combine chocolate and cream in a small saucepan. Stir over low heat until chocolate has melted and an even sauce if formed.

Drizzle over chocolate cake.

I made it without the icing.

Here is another one, it's my Mums throw all ingredients together, mix and bake

1 Cup SR flour sifted
1 Cup Caster Sugar
2 tablespoons of cocoa
125gms butter melted
2 eggs in a jug, top with milk to 1 cup and add 1-2tsp vanilla essence and mix.

Sift flour and cocoa, add other ingredients and mix well. Add two tablespoons of boiling water at end and mix.

Oven is at 180deg and cook for around 25-35mins.

[Floweryfields]

This is my Mum's never fail, easy, peasy 2 minute chocolate cake. No fancy beating anything seperate, just throw it all in - it's delicious!


1 3/4 cups SR flour
11/4 cups sugar
1 cup milk
1/2 teas vanilla
2 tabs cocoa
1/4 teas bicarb soda
125 g butter
2 eggs

Put all ingredients into bowl - beat for 2 minutes scraping down the sides regularly.

Put into greased pan and bake 45min in a 180 degree (preheated) oven.

Ice when cool.

Icing
2 tabs butter
2 tabs cocoa (less if you don't want as rich)
2 cups icing sugar
enough milk to make smooth but not runny consistency

Beat butter, cocoa and icing together. Slowly add milk till you are happy with smooth consistency.

[Hansie]

I make a reduced fat chocolate cake with my 3yo which is easy always rises lol. It is all done in a saucepan even better! You maybe able to find the recipe on taste as it is a Super Food Ideas recipe from their October 2010 magazine.

1/2 cup of reduced fat milk
1 & 1/2 cups caster sugar
120g reduced fat spread
1/4 cup cocoa powder
1/2 teaspoon bi-carb

slowly melt &dissolve all the above over a low heat (approx 5 minutes) once melted increase heat & bring to the boil. Remove from heat & leave to cool for 15 minutes. Then add

1 & 1/2 cups of self raising flour
2 eggs

Whisk until smooth (we use the electric beaters)
Pour mixture into a prepared 20cm round tin 6cm depth. We grease & line with baking paper. Bake for 40mins or until skewer comes out clean at 180 or 160 for fan force. Leave to cool for 10 minutes then turn out on to a wire rack to cool.

Chocolate Icing
1 cup Icing sugar mixture
2 tablespoons cocoa powder
20g reduced fat spread
2 tablespoons boiling water

This cake turns out so moist and is easy to make. You can use full fat ingredients as well but I'm doing weight watchers and each slice (I cut mine into 12 recipe says serves 8) is 7 points or I sometimes make as muffins without icing at 5 points.

Enjoy x We made the muffin version last Monday. If DS1 wants to bake this is what we bake lol.