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.
Dear Fauzia can you tell me which brand of unsalted butter is best for baking? i cant find unsalted butter
You can use salted, just leave out the salt from the recipe.
hey fauzia we are vegetarians can i substitute anything else instead of eggs?
Use this eggless recipe: http://www.fauziaskitchenfun.com/eggless-chocolate-cake/
lovely recipe. please can i get fondant icing,gumpaste and sharwama recipe
Thanks, please use the search option to find the shawarma recipe. For now no fondant or gumpaste recipes.
salam please can i use two 8 inch square pan to bake this cake or one 8 inch that’s the only pan i have thank you.
W/Salaam. An 8″ square pan would be bigger in size than an 8″ round pan, but yes you can bake in it. See where the batter reaches in the pan (depending on the depth of your pan). If it gets to three-quarters of the pan, then you can use it to bake one cake. Otherwise split the batter in half and make two cakes.
hi sis can you plzzzz tell me is there any substitute of: cadbury’s drinking chocolate powder ??? because it is un available at my side 🙁
You can use extra cocoa powder in it’s place. Add 1-2 tbsp sugar extra because the drinking chocolate powder is normally sweetened.
xtra cocoa powder means , u already mentioned 3heaped tbsp of cocoa powder so how many tbsp add more in it ,in place of drinking chocolate powder ??plzzz sis guide me
I mean, replace the drinking chocolate amount with cocoa powder. So that means aside from the ORIGINAL 3 tbsp of cocoa, add an extra 4 tbsp of cocoa to replace the drinking chocolate.
Hi apa,
The colour of my chocolate cake is always light brown not dark brown. It tastes great but doesn’t look so :(. I use Harshey’ cocoa powder.
Thanks
Farah
Hi! Try using Cadbury’s Cocoa, I find it gives better results.
What if we do not have proper oven can we bake it in microwave?
Aoa. I don’t have and oven so can u put up choclate cake’s recipe which can be made in microwave?
Sorry but I do not believe that baking in the microwave is a healthy option so I do not have any microwave recipes.
I do not recommend using the microwave, personally I never use it for baking/cooking as it is not healthy.
Hi…I was wondering whether
Hi…I was wondering whether i could used sweetened cocoa powder instead of unsweetened??? Do i have to change any quantities?
Hi! Yes that is fine but you
Hi! Yes that is fine but you will need to reduce the amount of sugar from the recipe by about 2-3 tbsp. 🙂
Salam
Salam
I dont have an electric mixer,can I mix it with a hand whisk??
W/Salaam. Yes that is fine.
W/Salaam. Yes that is fine.
Salaam walekum,can we add
Salaam walekum,can we add just coco powder in this recipe if yes how much?? Please help me
W/Salaam, please refer to the
W/Salaam, please refer to the comments above, have responded to that. 🙂
could i use horlicks instead
could i use horlicks instead of chocolate drinking powder
Yes I think horlicks will be
Yes I think horlicks will be fine.
salaam.. i baked the cake
salaam.. i baked the cake today but the top was very hard.. y was it like this
W/Salaam, could be that the
W/Salaam, could be that the heat from top was too high and the cake got overbaked?
Aoa fauzia .can I use
Aoa fauzia .can I use sweetened coco powder .if yes then what will b the amount of coco .drinking chocolate and sugar ? Thanks
Please refer to the comments
Please refer to the comments above.
Plzzz tell how can I make it
Plzzz tell how can I make it on stobe I dont have oven. Please hrlp me out.
Use this method: http://www
Use this method: http://www.fauziaskitchenfun.com/cake-no-oven
Asalaamu alaikum Fauzia,
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..
W/Salaam, yes you can sub the
W/Salaam, yes you can sub the DC with cocoa powder, and add a couple tbsp sugar to compensate for the bitterness of the cocoa as DC is sweet.
Aslm.hope you are dng well
Aslm.hope you are dng well,is it ok to soak the cake in syrup for more moistness?jazakAllah.
W/Salaam, yes you can.
W/Salaam, yes you can.