Thursday, November 10, 2011

Old Fashion chocolate cake


"I tried so hard to hide parts where I pinch the cake but I couldn't, hence the distorted rectangular chocolate cake of mine."

250g butter,softened
180g caster sugar
4 large eggs, separated
120g plain flour
150g chocolate
1tsp baking powder
50g cocoa powder
3tbsp milk,room temperature

100g chocolate, to pour cake

  1. Preheat oven at 180 C. Butter baking pan and cover with flour.
  2. Cream butter until pale, add caster sugar and continue to cream butter until fluffy.
  3. Add egg yolks.
  4. Melt chocolate using double boiler method.Let it cool.
  5. Fold in plain flour, baking powder and cocoa into mixture.
  6. Add melted chocolate & milk into batter.
  7. Whisk egg whites until stiff peaks.
  8. Fold in egg whites.
  9. Pour cake batter into baking pan and bake for 40-55 minutes until cake tester inserted comes out clean.
  10. While letting cake to cool, prepare chocolate topping by melting chocolate, again using the double boiler method.Leave it to cool slightly before pouring over cake.


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