Easy Chocolate Cake Recipe
Ingredients
Ingredients For 6 Inch Chocolate Cake
- 340 g Self Raising Flour (13oz)
- 400 g Room Temperature Butter or baking spread (14oz)
- 400 g Caster Sugar (14oz)
- 60 g Cocoa Powder (2oz)
- 4 Medium Eggs
- 3 tbsp Milk (3-4 tbsp)
For the Buttercream
- 450 g Icing Sugar (16oz)
- 250 g A block of Real Salted Butter (9oz)
- 45 g Cocoa Powder (1.5oz)
- 2.5 tbsp Milk
Instructions
- Into a mixing bowl sift in the plain flour. Add the bicarbonate of soda, the ground cinnamon and the ground ginger and pop to one side.
- Into a saucepan add the butter, caster sugar, the brown sugar and the golden syrup and place this onto your hob until all the ingredients have melted together.
- You then want to add your melted ingredients to your dry ingredients in your mixing bowl. Using a wooden spoon or spatula mix this all together until it forms a dough. You can finish this off mixing it with your hands to make sure the ingredients are all combined.
- Take a piece of cling film / plastic wrap and push down your dough, coving it over. Place this into the fridge for 30 minutes.
- Whilst your dough is in the fridge you will need to print off and cut out your template pieces. You can find my template here.
- After 30 minutes take your dough out of the fridge. You can then dust your surface with a little flour and roll out your dough until its around 5mm in thickness. Then use a knife to cut out all of your shapes and place on a baking tray.
- Place your cut out shapes into a preheated oven set to 180 degrees Celsius for 10 minutes. You want the edges just to start changing colour.
- After 10 minutes you can take your shapes out of the oven to let them cool. I like to use my templates and carefully (they will be hot) cut around the template a second time, to cut off any areas that have spread in size. This will help your house fit together a little easier.
- You then have all the pieces for your gingerbread house. I like to use royal icing to stick my pieces together. Watch how to decorate your Gingerbread house in my tutorial above.
Notes
Who doesn’t love a yummy chocolate cake. This week I’m sharing my go to, super simple chocolate cake recipe. With only 6 ingredients that all go into the mixer at the same time it is so easy to make. I really hope you’ll enjoy it. You’ll also find my chocolate buttercream frosting recipe too!
Chocolate cake
I really love how simple this chocolate cake is to make and it is perfect if you want to fill and cover it in buttercream, or you can also cover it in ganache and fondant too.
In the video the recipe is enough to create 2x 6 inch sponge cakes which can be divided into 4 layers, giving you a cake with a height of around 4 inches. You can also use my handy cake conversion tool to convert this recipe for any size cake tin.
I really hope you enjoy the video and also enjoy recipe too. If you haven’t already you can subscribe to my YouTube channel for more Free cake decorating video tutorials.
Tools I used
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