Recipe for Chocolate Cake
Ingredients
- 225 gm — soft butter
- 225 gm — sugar
- 4 — large eggs, slightly beaten
- 225 gm — cake flour
- 1.5 tsp — baking powder
- For filling
- 375 ml — cream
- 300 gm —- dark chocolate, broken into pieces
Cooking Directions
Beat butter & sugar until light.
Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
Sift flour & baking powder together, fold into the butter mixture.
Spoon the mixture into a greased & lined baking tin.
Bake in a preheated oven for an hour at 180 degree C.
leave the cake in the tin for 10 minutes, before turning it out onto a wire rack.
Set aside to cool.
For the filling, heat cream till steaming (not boiling).
Remove from heat & stir in chocolate until it melts.
Refrigerate for two hours ort until firm.
Beat with an electric beater for 5-10 minutes until thick and creamy.
Halve the cake horizontally.
Spread half filling over the bottom half, then sandwich the layers together.
Spread the remaining filling over the top.
Decorate & serve.
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