200g 70% dark chocolate
1 1/2 cup butter
8 eggs
2 1/4 cups caster sugar
1 1/4 cups plain flour
1/4 cups cocoa powder
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
For the decoration:
1 cup cream
200g choco chips
600ml heavy cream
1 tsp vanilla essence
3 tbsp icing sugar
20g PHILADELPHIA cream cheese
1. Place the chocolate and butter into a bowl
2. Melt in the microwave by putting it in for 10 seconds, taking it out to stir, putting in for 10 seconds, taking out to stir all the way until fully melted.
3. Whisk the egg and sugar together
4. Combine egg and chocolate mixtures
5. Sift flour, cocoa powder and baking powder together and mix into cake mixture until well blended.
6. Pour into two 20cm round cake tins
7. Bake in slow oven.
8. Insert a knife into the centre to check if it is done, if it is ready it will come out clean.
Tip: If the cake looks done before it is fully cooked, place an empty baking tray on the shelf above it in the oven and leave it to bake.
For the decoration:
We will be making two different creams.
A ganache and cream cheese cream.
For the ganache:
1. Take 1 cup of cream and put it on the stove. Bring it to a boil.
2. Put some chocolate into a bowl.
3. Put the boiled cream into the chocolate and leave it for a minute or so to soften the chocolate then mix it.
4. Put the ganache into the fridge to harden or you can use it as a glaze.
For the cream cheese cream:
1. Put 600ml of heavy cream and put it into a mixing bowl. Add in 1 tsp of vanilla essence and 3 tbsp of and cream cheese
2. Use an electric mixer to mix or you can do it the traditional way by hand too.
You can decorate it however you like.
Chocolate cake recipe by How To Cook That
1. Place the chocolate and butter into a bowl
2. Melt in the microwave by putting it in for 10 seconds, taking it out to stir, putting in for 10 seconds, taking out to stir all the way until fully melted.
3. Whisk the egg and sugar together
4. Combine egg and chocolate mixtures
5. Sift flour, cocoa powder and baking powder together and mix into cake mixture until well blended.
6. Pour into two 20cm round cake tins
7. Bake in slow oven.
8. Insert a knife into the centre to check if it is done, if it is ready it will come out clean.
Tip: If the cake looks done before it is fully cooked, place an empty baking tray on the shelf above it in the oven and leave it to bake.
For the decoration:
We will be making two different creams.
A ganache and cream cheese cream.
For the ganache:
1. Take 1 cup of cream and put it on the stove. Bring it to a boil.
2. Put some chocolate into a bowl.
3. Put the boiled cream into the chocolate and leave it for a minute or so to soften the chocolate then mix it.
4. Put the ganache into the fridge to harden or you can use it as a glaze.
For the cream cheese cream:
1. Put 600ml of heavy cream and put it into a mixing bowl. Add in 1 tsp of vanilla essence and 3 tbsp of and cream cheese
2. Use an electric mixer to mix or you can do it the traditional way by hand too.
You can decorate it however you like.
Chocolate cake recipe by How To Cook That
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