Chocolate cake
An easy chocolate cake. This recipe was created to make it easy for my son to whip up a chocolate cake when he wants. Instead of plan flour, self-raising flour is used. So there is no need for a baking powder. It is weighing and throwing all the ingredients in a mixing bowl and beat it. The glazing is luxurious and requires the best dark chocolate you can get but much easier to make than butter cream.
#chocolate cake
Ingredients
For the cake
200g milk chocolate melted.
175g butter, softened
200g caster sugar
3 eggs
175g self-raising flour
For the glaze
90g dark chocolate, finely chopped
75g caster sugar
Methods
For the cake, put the chocolate in a bowl and melt in the microwave on low for 3 minutes. Stir.
Put butter, sugar, eggs and flour in a mixing bowl and beat for 3 minutes until well mixed.
Stir in the melted chocolate until it is evenly mixed in.
Tip the mixture in a greased and lined round cake tin.
Bake in 170c oven for 50 minutes.
For the glaze, in a small pan, heat the sugar 40ml water , stirring to dissolve. Turn the the heat up and bubble for 3 minutes. Stir in 90g chocolate, stirring to melt then leave for 5 minutes or just warm.
Pour the glaze over the top of the cake sommothing it over the sides.
Leave to set for 20 minutes.