This is a fabulous easy chocolate cake that can be either dessert, birthday cake or for afternoon tea. It’s a sheet cake, so needs to be baked in either a small baking dish or two 18cm round tins.
Ice with ganache for a dessert cake to be served with cream and ice cream. Use the Chocolate Buttercream for a morning or afternoon tea cake – sprinkle with coconut.
This also makes great muffins. Bake at 180C for 20 -25 minutes.
Makes around 20, depending on size.
Easy Chocolate Cake
Author: ThermoGourmand
Recipe type: Cake
Ingredients
- 300g plain flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp bi-carb soda
- 40g cocoa
- 260g raw sugar
- 170g butter, cubed, room temperature
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 3 eggs
- 250g milk, soured with 1 Tbsp vinegar
Method
- Grease and line a small baking dish. (21cm x 29cm)
- Preheat oven to 165c fan forced, 180 non fan forced.
- Add flour, cocoa, bi-carb and baking powder to Thermomix bowl.
- 2 sec/Turbo (TM31 - 2 sec/sp 10)
- Remove to a bowl.
- Add sugar to Thermomix bowl and mill 10 sec/sp 9.
- Scrape down and add butter.
- Mix 10 sec/sp 5.
- Scrape down and mix 10 sec/sp 6
- Add remaining ingredients and mix 10 sec/speed 4.
- Scrape down sides and around the base of the bowl and mix again 10 sec/sp 6 or until smooth. Mix with spatula to ensure all butter and sugar is incorporated into the mixture and, if necessary, mix 5 sec/sp 6.
- Pour into baking dish and bake for 40 minutes, checking after 35 minutes.
- Cake should spring back when gently touched and should be coming away from the sides of the tin.
- Leave in the tin for 10 minutes before carefully turning out on to a wire rack to cool completely.
- Ice with chocolate buttercream or ganache.
Chocolate Buttercream Icing
Author: ThermoGourmand
Recipe type: Icing
Ingredients
- 270g icing sugar
- 3 Tbsp cocoa
- 185 g butter, cubed
- 3 Tbsp cream
- 1 Tbsp milk
- 2 tsp vanilla
Method
- Add icing sugar and cocoa to bowl and mix 1 sec/Turbo. (TM31 - 2 sec/sp 10)
- Add butter, cream, milk and vanilla and mix 20 sec/sp 5.
- Scrape down and mix again until smooth and creamy.
- Spread over cooled cake.
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