How To Make The Ultimate Chocolate Cake
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THE ULTIMATE CHOCOLATE CAKE
Servings: 12
INGREDIENTS
CAKE
1½ cups flour
1 cup Dutch processed cocoa powder
1 teaspoon salt
1½ teaspoons baking soda
½ teaspoon baking powder
1½ cups stout
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1 tablespoon espresso powder
1 cup butter, softened
1½ cups sugar
3 eggs
½ cup mayonnaise
4 ounces dark chocolate, chopped
BUTTERCREAM
1½ cups butter, softened
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
½ cup Dutch processed cocoa powder
5 cups powdered sugar
Fresh fruit, to decorate
PREPARATION
1. Preheat oven to 325˚F (160˚C).
2. Grease and line three 8-inch cake tins with parchment paper.
3. In a large bowl, sift together the flour, cocoa powder, salt, baking soda, and baking powder. Set aside.
4. In a large glass measuring cup, combine the stout, vanilla, and espresso powder. Set aside.
5. In a large mixing bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until it is light and fluffy, about 5 minutes, scraping down the sides occasionally to ensure all the ingredients are being evenly creamed together.
6. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, ensuring each egg is fully incorporated before adding the next.
7. Add the mayonnaise and beat until the mixture is smooth and creamy.
8. Alternate adding the prepared dry and wet ingredients to the batter. Starting with about ⅓ of the dry ingredients, beat until incorporated. Then add ⅓ of the liquid ingredients, mixing until the batter comes together. Continue until all the wet and dry ingredients have been incorporated.
9. Using a rubber scraper, fold the dark chocolate chunks into the batter.
10. Distribute the batter evenly between the 3 prepared cake tins.
11. Bake for about 35 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.
12. Place the cakes on a cooling rack and leave to cool for about 10-15 minutes, until the outside of the pan is cool enough to touch.
13. Once the cakes have cooled, loosen the edges using a butter knife. Then place a large plate over the tin and invert to release the cake from the pan. Remove the parchment paper from the bottom of the cake and slide the cake back onto the cooling rack to cool completely. Repeat for the remaining two layers.
14. While your cakes are cooling, prepare the buttercream.
15. In a large bowl, beat together the butter and vanilla.
16. Gradually add in the cocoa powder, powdered sugar, and milk, continuously beating until all the ingredients have been incorporated and the frosting is light and fluffy.
17. Decorate to your liking.
18. Enjoy!
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How to Make Chocolate Cake | Easy Amazing Homemade Moist Chocolate Cake Recipe
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In this episode of In the Kitchen with Matt I will show you how to make a chocolate cake. This amazing homemade moist chocolate cake is really easy to make, top it off with homemade chocolate buttercream frosting and you are left with a chocolate cake that is to die for. If I can make it you can make it, let's get baking!
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Ingredients:
Cake-
2 cups all-purpose flour (240g)
2 cups white granulated sugar (400g)
3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder (75g)
2 tsp. baking powder (8g)
1 1/2 tsp. baking soda (7g)
1 tsp. salt (5g)
1 cup milk (whole, 2%, 1%, Almond, etc.) (240mL)
1/2 cup oil (canola, vegetable, coconut, etc.) (120mL)
2 large eggs
2 tsp. vanilla extract (10mL)
1 cup very hot water (240mL)
Chocolate Buttercream Frosting-
1 1/2 cups unsalted butter, softened (340g)
1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder (100g)
5 cups powdered sugar (confectioner's, icing) (600g)
1/2 cup milk (whole, 2%, 1%, skim, etc.) (120mL)
2 tsp. vanilla extract (10mL)
Tools:
2 9-inch cake pans:
cake spatula:
whisk:
bowls
cooling rack
spatula
hand mixer or wooden spoon
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Transcript (partial):
Hello and welcome back to In the Kitchen with Matt, I am your host Matt Taylor, today I am going to show you how to make a chocolate cake, mmm yummy. I had a request to make a chocolate cake, so here we go, this chocolate cake is super moist, super delicious, really amazing recipe, it I can do it, you can do it, let’s get baking. First let’s go ahead and preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. or 176 Celsius. And now what we are going to do is we are going to mix together all of our dry ingredients, and I am going to list all of the ingredients down below in the description, 2 cups of all purpose flour, 2 cups of white granulated sugar, yep that is a lot of sugar, ¾ cup of unsweetened cocoa powder, 1 tsp. of salt, 1 and ½ tsp. of baking soda, 2 tsp. of baking powder, and with a whisk let’s go ahead and whisk this up really well, you could also sift this all together if you like. All right that is great, add our milk one cup of milk, ½ cup of oil, 2 large eggs, 2 tsp. of vanilla extract, now I am going to switch to a hand mixer, you could still use your whisk, it gets a bit clumpy or you could use a wooden spoon to do this. Okay at this point I have one cup of water here, and I got it really really hot almost boiling, I just put it in the microwave for about a minute and a half, it’s really hot, now with the mixer on low speed, we are going to slowly incorporate our really hot water, pour the rest of it in there. Ok so the hot water what it is going to do is it is going to thin out the batter, and it is going to help to be moist and get nice an fluffy for us. Don’t be alarmed if the batter seems to liquidy that’s okay, and kind of finish it off with your spatula. This is going to be for 2 9-inch cake pans, and so it is going to be a double layered cake, and what I did is I prepped my pan this is a brand new wilton nonstick pan, um but I still like to prep it, I just put some butter, softened butter all around in the inside, and then put about a tablespoon of flour in there, and you just kind of tap it around, like this, and the flour, goes everywhere and then you get rid of the rest of it, it’s really simple to do, and I recommend prepping your pans, because we don’t want our cake to stick, when we want to pull it out of the pans. We want the batter to be evenly spread in between these two. What I am going to do is I am just going to take a cup, and we will do one cup of cake batter in this one, and then one cup over in this one, and so on, until we are evenly incorporated, so I will come back when that is done...