Yummy Chocolate Cake
Yummy Chocolate Cake
Ingredients for cake
- Flour 1 ½ cup
- Caster sugar 1 cup
- Baking powder 1 tsp
- Baking soda ½ tsp
- Cocoa powder 1/3 cup
- Unsalted butter 6 oz
- Eggs 2
- Vanilla essence 2 tsp
- Cream 2/3 cup
- Lemon juice few drops
Frosting:
- Chocolate, chopped 6 ounces
- Unsalted butter 3 oz
- Icing sugar 2 ½ cup
- Light corn syrup 1 tbsp
- Cream ½ cup
- Lemon juice few drops
- Vanilla essence 1 tsp
Method
- Mix flour, sugar, baking powder and soda, cocoa, butter, eggs, vanilla, lemon juice and cream into a food processor and process until you have a smooth batter. Beat in the soft butter until you have a combined and creamy mixture. Now whisk together the cocoa, sour cream, vanilla, and eggs and beat this in. Divide this batter, in 2 greased and lined tins and bake at 180 degrees C until a cake tester comes out clean, about 35 minutes, Let cool on wire racks before turning out of their tins.
- To make this icing, melt the chocolate and butter in a over a pan of simmering water. Cool. Add the corn syrup to the cooled chocolate mixture, followed by the sour cream and vanilla and then when all this is combined whisk in the sieved icing sugar. You may need to add a tbsp or two of boiling water, sandwich cakes together with icing and on sides and top too.
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