Yummy and Easy Dark Chocolate Dessert for Your Dinner Party

Yummy and Easy Dark Chocolate Dessert for Your Dinner Party

Chocolate cakes are voted the most popular desserts ever all over the world. There are many variations of chocolate cake recipe, but a plain chocolate cake with a little twist is all you need most of the time to earn lots of praise for the dessert at your dinner party. Here is a simple and easy to prepare plain chocolate cake recipe that is a delight to look at as well as to eat.

What you will need:

 Chocolate Dessert

• All-purpose flour - 4 1/2 cups
• Castor sugar - 2 cups
• Vanilla extract - 1 1/2 teaspoons
• Cocoa powder - 3/4 cup
• Baking soda - 2 teaspoons
• Baking powder - 2 teaspoons
• Butter - 1 cup (softened and at room temperature)
• Milk - 1 1/4 cups
• Eggs - 3 large
• Hot coffee - 1 1/4 cups

To prepare:

• Preheat the oven to 170C.
• Grease two 7-inch baking tins using a little oil and dust the insides with some flour.
• Use an electric blender to blend the butter, eggs and sugar together. Beat them at maximum speed until the mix is smooth, creamy and the sugar is dissolved.
• Now add the milk and hot coffee to the mix and beat for another 3 minutes until the mix is well incorporated.
• In a separate bowl, mix the flour, baking powder, baking soda and cocoa powder. Sift them together.
• Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients using a spoon and mix well. Scrape the bottom of the bowl when mixing so that it is well combined.
• Pour the prepared batter in the greased baking pans and smooth the tops.
• Bake in the preheated oven for about an hour until a skewer inserted in the middle of the cake comes out clean.
• Let it cool in the tin.

While the cake is baking you can prepare the delicious cream decoration to go with the cake.

What you will need for the cake decorations:

cream decoration

• Fresh cream - 2 1/4 cups
• Dark cooking chocolate (70% cocoa content)- 500 grams
• Fresh raspberries (cut lengthwise) - 250 grams

To prepare:

• Heat the cream in a saucepan until very hot, but not boiling.
• Remove from heat and cool for 2 minutes, then add the dark cooking chocolate.
• Stir it well until the mix is shiny and glossy.
• Let it chill while the cake cools.
• To arrange the cake:
• Put one cake on a cake stand and cover with a layer of chocolate cream.
• Place another layer on top of it, drizzle the remaining cream on the top, and decorate with cut raspberries.
• Your cake is ready to serve.

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