YUM Chocolate Cake

Y-chocotert“Let’s face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me.” ― Audrey Hepburn

THE Recipe:

The Ingredients:

150g (160 ml) butter melted

3 extra large eggs

200 ml milk

5 ml vanilla essence

240 g (500 ml) cake flour

12,5 ml baking powder

salt

210g (250 ml) castor sugar

50 ml cocoa powder mixed with 35ml warm water

Y-chocotert1And then:

Heat oven to 180*C (350*F).  Grease two 20cm pans with butter with baking paper in the bottom of the pans.

Beat with a hand mixer the butter, eggs, milk, vanilla and cocoa together in a big mixing bowl until well mixed.

Sieve the flour, baking powder, salt and castor sugar together.  Mix into the butter mix.  Beat for 1 minute with an electric hand mixer until well mixed.

Divide the mixture in two and pour into the pans.  Bake for about 30 minutes in the oven or until skewer is clean when inserted into the middle of the cakes.

Let it cool down and decorate with butter cream icing and caramel.

Butter cream icing

Beat together 125 g butter, 250 g icing sugar, 60 ml cocoa powder and a little bit of milk.

ENJOY!!

7 comments on “YUM Chocolate Cake

  1. Chocolate cake, my favorite! Always ready to have one and I will try your recipe even do I’m not a baker this looks I could handle! Thanks for sharing yours with us!~Eva

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  2. Antonia says:

    The cake looks amazing! I love the quote!

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