How to Bake a Chocolate Cake

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The mention of chocolate cake brings water in everyone s mouth. This article will help you bake a chocolate cake on your own. Here are easy and simple steps to bale a chocolate cake.

Ingredients

Dry Ingredients:

- 1 cup Hershey s cocoa

- 2 ½ cups brown sugar

- 2 teaspoons baking soda

- 2 ¾ cups sifted all purpose flour

- ½ teaspoon salt

Wet Ingredients:

- 4 eggs

- 1 cup softened butter

- 2 cups boiling water

- 1 ½ teaspoon vanilla

Icing:

- 1/4 cup milk

- 1/4 cup baking cocoa

- 2 cups powdered icing sugar

- 1/2 cup or a stick of unsalted butter

- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Procedure

- First, pre-heat the oven to a temperature of 177 degrees Celsius or 350 degrees Fahrenheit.

- Grease two round layer pans of nine inch and set aside.

- Mix the cup of Hershey s cocoa with 2 cups of boiling water until it becomes smooth and let it cool.

- Mix flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a plastic bowl.

- Cream the butter slowly. When the butter gets softened and starts to cream, slowly add sugar and keep creaming the butter until it appears fluffy and light.

- Now, eggs have to be added one at a time when the butter is done and it has to be slowly mixed. Then vanilla is to be added.

- Add cocoa mixture fourths to the butter. Then add the mixture of dry ingredients. Keep adding in alternates until the last mixture which should be the dry ingredients.

- The batter is to be now placed in the pans to half or less the depth of the pan.

- It has to be baked in a temperature of 350 degrees Fahrenheit for nearly 25 to 30 minutes, check if is baked completely. It can be done with a toothpick pierced into the center of the cake. If it comes out clean then it means the cake is already baked.

- Now, take out the pans from the oven and let them cool for ten minutes on a wire rack.

Icing Procedure

- First, place the sugar in the bowl and then slowly add other ingredients.

- Slow mixer speed will keep the sugar in the bowl. Slowly increase the speed.

- If the frosting looks very thick, then milk can be added slowly to make it thinner. Thick frosting will be difficult to apply on the cake.

- Use a spatula to top the cake with the icing. It can also be directly piped on.

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