Rachel Allen's Best Ever Chocolate Cake
By: Priya Balchand
Published: Friday, February 19, 2010 - 6:11pm

Ingredients




Ingredients: 

Dark Chocolate - 125gm

Plain Flour - 200gm

Milk - 2Tbsp

Butter - 150gm

Castor Sugar - 150gm

Eggs - 3

Baking Powder - 1tsp

Baking Soda - 1\4tsp

Cocoa Powder - 1Tbsp

For Chocolate Butter Icing:

Butter - 75gm

Cream -1Tbp

Cocoa - 1Tbsp

Icing Sugar - 175gm

Vanilla extract - 1tsp

Preparation

1 In a bowl mix the milk and chocolate and allow it to sit on top of the saucepan of simmering water. Heat until the chocolate is melted. 2 Beat the butter until very soft then add the caster sugar and continue to beat until the mixture is light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, then fold in the melted chocolate (do make sure the eggs and butter are at room temp otherwise it may curdle). 3 Sift in the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and the bicarbonate of soda, and fold in gently to mix (Be sure you fold in the dry ingredients. DO NOT stir). 4 Pop in oven which is at 180°C (350°F) and bake for 25mins. 5 Remove the cake and allow to cool. 6 For butter icing, beat the butter, cream and vanilla until it is soft. Sift in the icing sugar, cocoa powder and beat continuously. 7 Once it becomes light and fluffy, divide the cake and sandwich with butter icing. 8 Dust chocolate powder on top of the cake.

About


As I said, I have been trying to make use of Oven lately. I also started trying out cake and I am going crazy. Every time I see some chocolate cake recipe in TV show or through surfing net.. I used to try the recipe and taste would be good but something would be wrong/missing. It would either crumble or bit sticky in your mouth...(No its not about measurements). Hmmm... So I saw this recipe done by Rachel Allen on a TV show and I started trying out. She also gave very good tips and tricks that makes a perfect chocolate cake. Try it and you will never get enough of it (Cake was gone in day :))