Saturday, July 26, 2008

Moist Chocolate Cake



Recipe from here.

Ingredients (5" x 8" loaf pan):
1 cup cake flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 cup caster sugar
2 large eggs
125g unsalted butter
1 tsp vanilla essence

Chocolate Paste:
½ cup cocoa powder
½ tsp instant coffee
¼ cup sugar
½ cup hot water
¼ cup evaporated/fresh milk
Pinch of salt

Directions:
Preheat the oven to 180 degree C.

Grease the loaf pan and line the bottom with baking paper.

Chocolate Paste:
Combine cocoa powder, instant coffee, sugar, hot water and salt in a medium mixing bowl.
Whisk the mixture until the sugar is melted, then add in milk and mix well.
Set aside for later use.

Sift together flour with baking powder for 2-3 times. Set aside.
In a large mixing bowl, beat butter together with sugar until creamy.

Add in vanilla essence, and eggs one at a time. Beat until light and fluffy.
Fold in sifted flour in batches, alternate with chocolate paste.

Start with flour and end with flour.
Bake for 45-50 minutes.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Hi Cheryl

Your moist chocolate cake looks so delicious. I am a big fan of anything and everything of chocolate. Do you mind sharing the recipe with me? You can email me.

Tks & Cheers
Olivia
www.foodlovepassion.blogspot.com
Email: olivia_flowerpod@yahoo.com

Cher said...

Hi Olivia,

I've actually included the link to the recipe. Happy baking :)