This is best homemade chocolate cake ever. Yes! If you love old-fashioned chocolate cakes and are a lazy baker like me, this is one of the best and easiest chocolate recipe ever. All it takes it just dumping the ingredients together and baking them. After which you can choose to eat it like that or make a beautiful chocolate frosting in just a few minutes.
Ingredients¾ cup sugar
1 cup all-purpose flour
⅓ Cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1teaspoon baking powder
½ cup teaspoon baking soda
¼vegetable oil
40 g Butter
1 teaspoons vanilla extract
½ cup water hot
½ cup milk
For Chocolate Frosting Optional
200 ml whipping cream
¼ cup castor sugar
¼ cup dark cocoa powder
Method- Cream butter, sugar and oil together in the stand mixer bowl which is fitted with paddle attachment.
- Add flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, soda bicarb, milk, vanilla extract, hot water all together, and mix them at a speed of two for 2-3 minutes.
- In the meanwhile Preheat the oven at 170C or about 340F.
- Line the baking pan with a parchment paper at the bottom.
- Pour the batter into a 10-inch baking tin lined with parchment paper and bake for 25-30 minutes till the toothpick inserted into cake tin comes out clean.
- Allow it to cool on a wire rack for 30 minutes before serving.
- If you are making the frosting, In the stand mixer bowl add whipping cream, castor sugar, and cocoa powder together and whip with the balloon whisk attachment that comes with the Morphy Richards stand mixer.
- Slather the whipping cream over the cake and add some good quality grated dark chocolate over the frosting.
- Chill it in fridge for 30 minutes or so before serving and enjoy the moist eggless dark chocolate cake.