Recipe: Perfect Simple Chocolate Cake Recipe

Simple Chocolate Cake Recipe. This Simple Chocolate Cake recipe is just that. Yet, it produces a cake with great chocolate flavor a deliciously soft and moist texture. A very simple-to-make chocolate cake recipe that also makes a dozen rich chocolaty cupcakes.

If you like simple recipes, or are short of time, why not make a simple chocolate cake? It's delicious, easy to make, and takes less than an hour from start to finish. Our best chocolate cake recipe is ridiculously easy to bake. You can cook Simple Chocolate Cake Recipe using 9 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Simple Chocolate Cake Recipe

1. Prepare 115 g of plain chocolate, chopped into Small pieces.
2. You need 3 lt of milk.
3. You need 150 g of unsalted butter or margarine, softened.
4. Prepare 150 g of sugar.
5. You need 3 of eggs.
6. It's 200 g of aising flour.
7. You need 1 tbsp of cocoa Powder.
8. Prepare of Icing sugar and cocoa powder, for dusting.
9. Prepare 1 of quantity Chocolate Buttercream, for the filling.

It's also moist, dark, and covered in chocolate ganache. Perfect for birthdays, this is a foolproof and really easy chocolate cake recipe. This is my "go to" Chocolate Cake. I make it for family dinners, birthdays, and everything in between.

Simple Chocolate Cake Recipe instructions

1. Preheat oven to 180C / 350F / Gas 4. Grease two 18 cm/7 in round sandwich cake tins and line the base of each with non-stick baking paper. Select a small saucepan and a heatproof bowl that will fit over it. Place the chocolate and the milk in the bowl. Bring a small saucepan of water to just blow simmering point. Place the bowl containing the chocolate mixture on top. Leave for about 5 minutes, until the chocolate softens, then stir until smooth..
2. Cream the butter or margarine with the sugar in a mixing bowl until pale and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Stir in the chocolate mixture until well combined..
3. Sift the and coca over the mixture and fold in with a metal spoon until evenly mixed. Scrape into the prepared tins, smooth level and bake for 35 -40 minutes or until well risen and firm. Turn out on to wire racks to cool..
4. Sandwich the cake layers together with a thick, even layer of chocolate buttercream. Dust with a mixture of icing sugar and cocoa just before serving..

I really like the combination of two types of chocolate. Unsweetened cocoa powder is used in the chocolate cake and a dark chocolate (semi sweet or bittersweet) is used in the frosting. A chocolate cake recipe from scratch that's an old fashioned gem. When it comes to chocolate cakes that aren't difficult to make, this has to be amongst the best I've come across. I have been visiting my sister in her new house in the country.