All that is necessary in life: Chocolate Cake

Thought it would be a good time to blog about chocolate cake as Jacki loved it and there is currently chocolate chocolate chip pound cake in my oven. A little worried about the pound cake as the recipe called for it to be in a bundt cake pan and I don't have one. So I split the batter into two loaf pans as it wouldn't fit into one. Oh well. This just means I get to go buy more bakeware! Yeah!

So about the cake. I have never made a cake before. But I think I have found the chocolate cake recipe that I will use if I ever have to make one again, which I probably will. It isn't too sweet. Semi-sweet actually, but I think its b/c of the type of cocoa powder I used. It is dense and almost fudge like. It calls for 13.5 oz. of butter. I don't think any thing else needs to be said. Here is a picture.


Since it was Jacki's birthday cake, she thought it was great. She's the chocolate aficionado so I defer to her. And she doens't like frosting. Personally, I think a little sweet butter cream frosting just on top would have made it just right. I think it would also make a perfect double layered cake with chocolate ganache or again, sweet butter cream frosting. See this is why I need another cake pan. Should have realized this when I bought mine. One is simply not enough. Just like loaf pans. You need two. Guess I'll be heading back to Kitchen Works soon to buy one and also get a bundt cake pan.

Anyway. Here is the recipe. I got it from Almost Bourdain.

Chocolate Mud Cake Recipe

(Adapted from Donna Hay Chocolate Cookbook)

Serves 10

Ingredients

375 g (13 1/2 oz) butter, softened

1 1/3 cups (230 g / 7 7/8 oz) brown sugar

3 eggs

2 cups (300g / 10 1/2 oz) plain (all-purpose) flour, sifted

1/2 tsp baking powder

2/3 cup (80 g / 3 oz) cocoa powder, double sifted

200 g (7 oz) dark chocolate, melted

3/4 cup (180 ml / 6 fl oz) milk

**Update**

Not going to post about the chocolate chocolate chip pound cake. It came out, but not really like pound cake and Anthony thought the cocoa powder was a little powerful. This is what I thought with the chocolate cake recipe above. But we shall see what other people think. Don't think I'll be doing pound cakes any time soon.