Cocoa Cake
1 hour 45 minutes
Rich chocolate cake with dark chocolate, cocoa powder, vanilla, cream and loads of butter for a decadent, moist and creamy cake, topped with sinful chocolate icing.
Kilda
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Ingredients
Makes: 1 cake
- Cake
- 130g dark chocolate
- 1/4 cup (60ml) cream
- 150g butter, softened
- 2/3 cup (150g) caster sugar
- 3 eggs
- 1 2/3 cups (200g) plain flour
- 2 tablespoons cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon bicarb soda
- Icing
- 80g butter, softened
- 1 tablespoon cream
- 2 tablespoons vanilla essence
- 180g icing sugar
- 1 tablespoon cocoa powder
Directions
Preparation:20min ›
Cook:25min ›
Extra time:1hour cooling ›
Ready in:1hour45min
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees C. Grease and flour two round cake tins. In a heatproof bowl over a saucepan of simmering water, melt together the chocolate and cream.
- Cream together the butter and sugar. Beat in eggs, one at a time. In a different bowl, sift together flour, cocoa powder and bicarb soda. Slowly sift into the wet egg mixture.
- Pour into greased tins and bake until a toothpick inserted into the centre comes out clean, about 25 minutes. Allow to cool on a cooling rack before icing.
- Cream together the butter, cream and vanilla until soft. Beat in the icing sugar and the cocoa then continue beating until fluffy. Spread between two cakes and over the top.
