chocolate sandwich cake recipe for beginners

generalmiaow

I know you all have recipes for chocolate cake, but I thought I might share mine with you guys. I've been using it about every fortnight since I was six (I like chocolate cake but I'd never buy one), and it produces a nice cake. I think I got it from the Irish times.

Devices needed

Bowls
Fan oven
Whisk (preferably electric)
Scales
Spoons
Greaseproof paper

Ingredients Needed

for the cake
3 Large eggs
9 Oz. Sugar
9 Oz. Self-raising flour
9 Oz. Soft butter/Margarine
3 tbsp. water
3 heaped tbsp. Cocoa

optional: {
30 ml milk
half bar of melted chocolate
}

for the filling
9 Oz. Icing sugar
3 Oz. Butter/Margarine
3 heaped tbsp. Cocoa
3 tbsp. Water (Lukewarm)

optional: {
the other half of that bar of chocolate (melted)
}

Method

Mixture

1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees C.
2. Line and grease two 8 inch biscuit tins (shallow cake tins)
3. Break your 3 eggs into the bowl
4. Throw in your butter
5. Lash in the sugar (don't bother sifting it)
6. Sift your flour in
7. Chuck some cocoa bowl-wards
8. Put in your water and optional milk and chocolate
9. Whisk it for about 8 minutes or more. You'll know.
10. Put equal amounts into each biscuit tin via the use of spoons
11. Set a reminded on your phone for 33 minutes.
12. Throw it in the oven.

Intermission & Icing making
1. Don't open the oven while it's baking
2. Throw all the icing ingredients in the bowl
3. Whisk it until it is homogenous and soft.
4. Don't open the oven while the cake is baking!!!!
5. Check if the cake is done when your phone beeps. Stick a match or a cocktail stick in it. If the match comes out completely clean, the cake is done.
6. Take the cake out, wait for it to cool on a wire rack if you have one.

Final Work
1. Once it is cool (this will take at LEAST half an hour) put a bit of icing on top of the most bumpy looking cake circle. This is so that the top one will be the more smooth one.
2. Put the other cake on top of the first one.
3. Put some icing on top of the cake. Now, put some icing all over the cake, until the cake is covered. Use a knife in a circular motion around the cake. Try to spread it flatly evenly all over the cake.
4. If you have any chocolate left over, grate it with a cheese grater onto the cake. Also, sprinkle some icing sugar. That'd be deadly looking.

Anyone have any questions, or success with this recipe, let me know!! If you get the liquids balanced right, you should have a very chocolatey, soft and moist cake! It should be good for about a week in a cake tin. But you will eat it before that.

coralcathy

made the cake ................ it was lovely ...............massive though!

generalmiaow

good to hear, perhaps it is massive alright. if your biscuit tins are smaller you could reduce all the 9s to 6s and three eggs to two, three spoons to two, etc... I just like having lots of cake