Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, heavenly chocolate cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Heavenly chocolate cake is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Heavenly chocolate cake is something that I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook heavenly chocolate cake using 32 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Heavenly chocolate cake:
Get Chocolate cake :
Prepare 500 ml cake flour sifted
Make ready 3 tsp baking powder
Make ready 1 tsp bicarb soda
Make ready Pinch salt
Get 180 ml cocoa powder
Take 500 ml sugar
Take 2 eggs
Make ready 1 tsp vanilla essence
Make ready 250 ml hot water mixed with 3 tsp coffee
Prepare 125 ml oil
Take 250 ml milk
Prepare Buttercream:
Get 2 cups icing sugar
Take 4 Tbs soft butter
Prepare 1 tsp cocoa (for a light colour)
Take 2 Tbs milk
Prepare Chocolate Ganache :
Prepare 1 Tbs butter
Take 1/2 cup milk
Take 200 g baking chocolate
Take Homemade chocolate numbers:
Take Pen
Get Waxpaper
Prepare 50 g chocolate pieces(depends on how thick you want the numbers)
Get Toothpicks
Take Deco(I used edible glitter and mini Astros)
Get Chocolate dipped strawberries:
Take 10 strawberries
Make ready Few pieces chocolate
Prepare Edible glitter
Get Extra Deco for the cake as required
Steps to make Heavenly chocolate cake:
Preheat the oven at 180 °C. Grease or line 2 round baking tins. Sift the dry ingredients (cake flour, bicarb soda, baking powder, salt, cocoa powder, sugar) for the cake into a bowl. Separately add the eggs, vanilla, oil and milk into a bowl and beat well. Add to the dry ingredients and lightly mix through. Add the hot coffee and mix till smooth.
Pour the batter into the pans and bake for 20/25 mins inserting a toothpick in the middle to check if done. Leave the cake to cool, cover with wax paper and freeze
Write your numbers down on wax paper. Melt the chocolate and fill the numbers using a piping bag or teaspoon. Apply enough chocolate to make thick numbers. Place toothpicks at the bottom and cover the top with chocolate. Decorate as desired and leave it to set. Melt chocolate for the strawberries and dip them as desired, decorate with edible glitter.
Prepare the buttercream by adding all ingredients (icing sugar, butter, cocoa powder, milk) together, mix till smooth. Take the cake out and apply a thin layer of buttercream on 1 cake layer, add the other layer on top. Ice the sides of the cake and smooth it out. Place the cake in the freezer.
Prepare the ganache by melting the butter in a pot, add the milk than chocolate pieces. Stir till the chocolate melts and leave it to thicken slightly. Take the cake out and drip the cake sides with ganache by using a spoon or piping bag. Spread the rest of the ganache on the top of the cake. Add the deco for the cake as desired, insert your numbers and place the strawberries. Leave the cake to set and enjoy.
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