This is one the best chocolate cake recipes ever! I have used several chocolate cake recipes before but this is definitely the keeper. This cake is very moist, still quite light and very chocolatey. I got the recipe from sweetapolita.com- she does the most amazing cakes!
The measurements here will make you 3 x 6″ cakes or can try making one big cake as well. I used one and a half times to make 4 x 7″ cakes. What you will need is:
180 gm plain flour
275 gm caster sugar
60 gm cocoa powder
1 1/4 tsp baking powder
1 1/4 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
75 ml vegetable oil
140 ml buttermilk
130 ml hot coffee ( I used about 2 tbsp of instant coffee in hot water, you can always used brewed coffee as well)
2 eggs at room temperature
1 tbsp vanilla essence
- Pre-heat the oven to 180 °C (fan). Adjust temperature according to your oven.
- Grease and line the baking tins.
- Sift all the ingredients together.
- I used the food processor- put all the ingredients (sifted and the rest) together and mix till the batter comes to a semi-liquid state without lumps.
- Pour the mixture into the baking tins and bake in the preheated oven. After about 20 mins rotate the tins so there is an even bake. Bake for a total of about 35 minutes or till a skewer comes out clean.
- Cool the cakes on wire rack.
Frosting: 187 gm unsalted butter at room temperature
200 gm sifted icing sugar
1 1/2 tbsp milk
1 tbsp vanilla extract
pinch of salt
Whip the butter till it is pale and creamy for about 8 minutes. Add rest of the ingredients and whip for another minutes at low speed and then at medium speed for 5-6 minutes.
I divided this frosting in three bowls. I wanted to use pastel colours so I added the gel food colours till I got the required shades.
To assemble the cake, I layered all the cakes with the frosting, then put a thin layer of frosting on the cake to bind in all the crumbs and then frost with the different colours. I tried to do pastel swirls as explained here http://sweetapolita.com/2012/06/pastel-swirl-cake-video-tutorial/ . Well my swirls were not as pretty and colours not as bright but it was not too far off either! I was happy with the cake!
I got these awesome stencils from a friend for my birthday! There are such fun designs, I can’t wait to use them!
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