Chocolate Cake Recipes (by request)

[sister herb]

Chocolate Sheet Cake

Ingredients

For The Cake:

2 cups flour
2 cups sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
4 tablespoons (heaping) cocoa
2 sticks butter
1 cup boiling water
1/2 cup buttermilk
2 whole beaten eggs
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon vanilla

For Frosting:

1/2 cup finely chopped nuts
1 stick butter
4 tablespoons (heaping) cocoa
6 tablespoons milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
4 cups powdered sugar


Directions:

In a mixing bowl, combine flour, sugar, and salt.


In a saucepan, melt butter. Add cocoa. Stir together.
Add boiling water, allow mixture to boil for 30 seconds, then turn off heat. Pour over flour mixture, and stir lightly to cool.
In a measuring cup, pour the buttermilk and add beaten eggs, baking soda, and vanilla. Stir buttermilk mixture into butter/chocolate mixture. Pour into sheet cake pan and bake at 350-degrees for 20 minutes.
While cake is baking, make the icing. Chop pecans finely. Melt butter in a saucepan. Add cocoa, stir to combine, then turn off heat. Add the milk, vanilla, and powdered sugar. Stir together. Add the pecans, stir together, and pour over warm cake.

Cut into squares. Can be served warm.

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[sister herb]

Make basic sponge cake (use flavouring suggestion 6.):

http://www.turntoislam.com/forum/showthread.php?t=77430

Icing:

The icing

6 tbsps of butter
1 cup that's 8 ounces or 16 tbps of icing sugar
4 tbsp of cocoa powder
1 tsp of Vanilla essence
3 to 4 tbsps of milk

Method:

Beat the butter, add icing sugar. When thats soft add in the vanilla essence, mix that in and then add the cocoa powder. In the end add the milk and the icing's done. Pour it into a piping bag and start decorating ur cupcakes or cakes or spread it to cake by knife (like butter to the bread).

You can also decorate the cake after using icing by grated chocolate or by chocolate candies.

Using that icing with cupcakes:

 

[sister herb]

This is originally for cup cakes/muffins but it is possible use also for making cake.

Chocolate cup cakes

200 g butter
2½ dl sugar
3 eggs
4½ dl wheat flours
½ dl dark cocoa powder
2 tsp baking powder
2 tsp vanillin sugar
100-150 g dark chocolate
2 dl milk

(for 10 big cup cakes/20 small ones)

Beat up butter and sugar in a bowl. Add eggs one by one beating strongly.
Mix together wheat flours, cocoa powder, baking powder and vanillin sugar. Add it to dough.
Grate chocolate (keep it before in the fridge so it is easier) and add to the dought.
Add the milk.
Spoon the batter in buttered muffin/cup cake pan or moulds — fill them up to 2/3 — and

Cup cakes: bake at 225 °C for about 10 - 17 minutes, depending on the size of the muffins

Cake: bake the batter at 175 °C on the bottom rack of the oven for 15 - 40 minutes, depending on the amount and/or thickness of the batter and the size and shape of the cake pan used.

For decorating: melted dark chocolate (if like, you can add 1/2 tablespoon butter/350 g chocolate)