Welcome
Welcome to our chocolate cake recipe collection, we have a number of favorite chocolate cake recipes freely contributed by other chocolate lovers.
Chocolate Cake History
Did you know the history of a chocolate cake dates back to 1764 when Dr. James Baker discovered chocolate? Two large circular millstones where used to tediously grind up cocoa beans he had imported from the West Indies. He then established the first chocolate mill along the Neponset River continually powered by the water current.
Bakeries within the local area used the cocoa supplied by Dr Baker’s mill in various cake mixes, perfecting the first chocolate cakes.
Featured Chocolate Cake Recipe
COOKING TIME: 45-50 minutes
OVEN TEMPERATURE: 160°C, 325°F
MAKES: 1 cake, 23cm (9 inches) in diameter
Ingredients
- 200g(7oz) plain flour
- 5ml (1 tsp) bicarbonate of soda
- 5ml (1 tsp) baking powder
- 30ml (2 tblsp) cocoa powder
- 150g (5oz) soft brown sugar
- 30ml (2 tblsp) golden syrup
- 2 eggs
- 150ml (¼ pint) oil
- 150ml (¼ pint) milk
Icing
- 175g(6oz) plain chocolate, chopped or grated
- 30ml (2 tblsp) single cream
To Decorate
- Walnut halves
Recipe
- Grease and line a 23cm (9 inch) cake tin.
- Sieve all the dry ingredients together in a large bowl.
- Put the sugar, syrup, eggs, oil and milk into a well in the centre of the dry ingredients.
- Beat thoroughly until the mixture is smooth.
- Pour the mixture into the prepared cake tin. Bake for 45-50 minutes until a skewer inserted in the centre of the cake comes out clean.
- Leave the baked cake in its tin for a few minutes and turn onto a wire rack to cool.
- To make the icing: place the chocolate and cream into a small, heavy-based pan and heat gently until melted.
- Cool slightly and pour evenly over the cake.
- Decorate with walnuts.