Servings : two 8" cakes or 24 cupcakes
Here is a basic chocolate cake recipe. It’s simple and awesome and yummy. Can be sliced and layered, or baked into cupcakes, or had as is.
Ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1 3/4 cups sugar
- 5 eggs, room temperature
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 4 heaped tbsp. cadbury's drinking chocolate powder (sweetened)
- 3 heaped tbsp. cocoa powder (unsweetened)
- 1 tbsp. baking powder
- 1 tsp. salt
- 1 tbsp. vanilla extract or essence
- 1 1/4 cup milk or buttermilk
Instructions
You can bake this in a 9×13 pan or use two 9″ pans then layer your cakes with frosting or ganache. You can even make cupcakes out of this, it would yield about 24 small cupcakes.
You can make buttermilk at home. Take 1 cup room temperature milk and add 1 tablespoon vinegar or lemon juice. Let this stand for 5-10 minutes and then use accordingly.
Preheat oven to 180C.
Grease and put some parchment in your pans. Then grease the parchments as well and dust with a bit of flour.
Sift together flour, salt and baking powder. Add the cocoa and drinking chocolate into the flour. Set aside.
Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Scrape sides of bowl every few minutes using the whisk attachment or a rubber spatula. This is crucial. Otherwise you’re going to be left with chunks of butter in your finished batter. So make sure you cream it well and don’t rush! 🙂
Add eggs one at a time. Making sure each egg is perfectly incorporated before you add another. If you skip too quickly past this stage, you will have a cake that smells of eggs because the bits of egg that aren’t fully beaten in will bake separately in the cake and it will be like having scrambled eggs cooking in your cake, eww! So incorporate the eggs whenever you reach this stage for any cake recipe!! Remember to scrape down the sides of the bowl after every few eggs. Add vanilla.
Add flour and buttermilk in three alternative pours, starting and ending with flour. Mix on slow speed and scrape the bowl during the process. I know, it’s a pain in the butt. It’s worth it. At this stage do NOT over mix, just combine until the batter is incorporated. Over mixing can ruin your cake.
Once everything is well incorporated, use a plastic
spatula to fold the batter a few more times to make
perfectly sure you’ve got everything will mixed.
Divide the batter between your cake pans. Bake in preheated oven for twenty-five to forty minutes. Check for doneness by pressing gently on the cake. If you leave an indent, not done. If it bounces back gently without leaving a mark, done. You can use a toothpick to check also. Don’t over bake the cake! 🙂
Let the cake cool in the pan for a few minutes then turn it out onto a rack to finish cooling completely.
Now you can frost it, slice and layer it, ganache it with chocolate…anything you want!
Enjoy!!
HERE is my frosting recipe.
Salams may I. Know how many grams equals 1 cup of butter
W/Salaam. Please refer to this note for my measurement conversions: My Measurements
Salams fauzia, i only have unsweetened cocoa powder. Is there any way to sweeten it? Thanks for all the recipes!
W/Salaam, add a bit of sugar to it.
Asalaamu alaikum Fauzia,
Is it okay if I leave out the “drinking chocolate powder” and continue with the rest of the recipe? If yes, then do I need to increase the amount of cocoa powder & sugar in the recipe?
Thanks..
One li’l doubt Fauzia :
If I need to make half quantity of the recipe then how many eggs do i use? I’m confused about halving the eggs in the recipe as they are totally 5 in number 🙂
W/Salaam, yes you will need to add the equivalent amount in cocoa and a tiny bit extra sugar, about 1 tbsp.
Either beat one egg and then divide it in half or use 3 smaller eggs.
Thank you for ur quick reply 🙂 I really appreciate it!!
Plz tell me can v use convection oven for baking.
Yes you can
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm…………… Fauzia i made last week its was awsom………..and tasty
I have a pack of cooking chocolate. How can I use it n cake? Can u tell me some recipe that includes cooking chocolate?
Check the dessert folder for chocolate mousse, or use the fudge cake recipe in this cake folder. 🙂
Jazakillah
Salaam, is parchment same as baking paper?
W/Salaam, yes it is.
what if i use 3 eggs instead of 5 in this recipe?
I would not recommend it, the cake will not be as soft.
Salam dr …cn i use da salted butter? coz n sri lanka its difficult to find unsalted butter dr wht shall do nw?
W/Salaam. Yes you can use salted butter. Avoid the salt in the recipe though.
Thanks dr.
Made this cake on my sons birthday ..will upload the pic on ur fb page.
It was soft,moist and tasted great.electrical mixers do work!
salams!! can i just use cocoa powder without mixing cadbury’s drinking chocolate powder?
W/Salaam, have responded to this question please check the comments.
Salaam, is it essential to use vanilla essence. I live in America so not sure about the halal status of vanilla extract/essence. Can we bake the cake without it. JazakAllah
W/Salaam. Yes you can bake without vanilla or try and search for halal versions, they are easily available online.
Salam Fouzia. I made this on the stove top and it turned out good alhamdulillah. I have some questions though, it was salty can we omit salt? As I have seen it is required in your other cake recipes too. I have tried your marble cake and this choco cake on stove top and the only problem I have is they remain slightly uncooked in the middle top? I tried baking it longer but didn’t help much. I was afraid it’ll harden from the bottom so took it out. Other than that they rose perfectly and were super soft! And can you please tell me how deep the pot should be when used for stove top baking? I want to try in pressure cooker but its not too deep, just the average size.
Thanks a lot may Allah swt reward you guys tremendously. Aameen
W/Salaam, if you are using salted butter then yes omit the salt. Maybe you used salted butter and then added salt too. And yes you can omit the salt entirely if you like. Although it always gives a good depth of flavour. I use a pretty large pot for stove-top baking, try seeing if that will make a difference to your baking.
Thanks for the quick reply dear!
I used homemade unsalted butter. I just measured my pot and its almost 9.5 inches deep and 14 inches in diameter. Is it enough? If not then can you please recommend me the right size I’ll buy it inshaAllah. Gonna try your brownies recipe now! 😀
Normally I use two 8 inch pans. 🙂
I think I’m a little confused here. Is that the size of the pot you used for stove top baking?
That is the size of the PANS used for baking the cakes. The pot needs to be at least 2 inches bigger all around for air to move around easily.
Can we use dark unsweetened chocolate instead of cadburys drinking chocolate powder if yea how do I incorporate it n the quantity
Simply use extra cocoa in place of the drinking chocolate, and add an extra tbsp of sugar.