Easy to bake Chocolate Cake with simple ingredients. If you don’t need icing then skip that part and bake the cake alone 🙂 It takes less than 45 minutes to bake this delicious chocolate cake
Sift Flour,Baking Soda,Cocoa Powder and Salt together
Sift it twice
Then add Powdered Sugar and mix with a spoon
In a bowl add all the wet ingredients together and give it a mix
Slowly add wet ingredients and dry ingredients together and using a whisk make sure there aren’t any lumps in the batter
If the mixture is too thick add 1/4 cup extra milk and 2 tbsps Oil
Since I don’t have a whisk at home. Hence i used my electric hand mixer and in the lowest speed setting I mixed the batter for few seconds
Then transferred the batter to 6 cupcake cases.Line a 4inch round springform pan with baking paper and transfer the remaining batter
Tap the pans so that there aren’t any airbubbles
Preheat the oven at 180c and bake them for around 22-26 minutes approximately
Do test them after nearly 20 minutes by inserting a toothpick to see if it comes out clean..If not continue baking for few more minutes
Remove the baking pans from the oven and let it cool down completely
The small 4inch cake will look like this 🙂 Once the cake is cooled down remove the baking paper lining and then add sugar syrup+icing. Since the cake was small and also it didn’t break much on the top I used the cake as it is. Didn’t trim the top
Sugar Syrup :
Prepared a simple Sugar Syrup by dissolving 1/4 cup Powdered in 1/4 cup water and boiled it for few minutes.
Cut the cake into two and applied the syrup inbetween. This will stop the cake from drying up and keeps it moist.
Preparing the Icing :
As I mentioned before I bought a readymade whipped cream (500ml Avonmore Whipped Cream). I added a tbsp of Cocoa Powder, a tsp vanilla extract, 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon powder, 1 teaspoon powdered sugar. Mixed everything together. It gave that pinkish tone & cocoa flavor to the final icing 😋😋 Though it became slightly runny I didn’t want to use the bland plain cream to cover the cake.
Things I used to decorate cake & cupcakes were some Sprinkles, Pastry brush to apply sugar syrup, Cookies that I crumbled and added on top of the cupcakes, Offset spatula for spreading icing, Icing syring, Grated Dark Chocolate on the top of the cake
My apartment owner luckily had left one offset pastry spatula along with other knives. With the help of it I applied a layer of icing inbetween the cake and as well as covered the cake.
Left the cake with icing for 2 hours in fridge and then added sprinkles, grated chocolate on top of the cake..I wanted to finish off the decorations the previous night (the night before her birthday.i knew in the morning I will be busy with other kitchen chores & cleaning/decorating home). You can also do the finishing touches the next day morning (if you are baking this for bday or any celebration) if you have time
I didn’t have cake table at home. So left the Springform Pan’s bottom layer as it as and placed the cake on a regular stainless steel plate in the fridge😬
Decorated the cupcakes with Icing & topped it with Cookie Crumbles
Yesterday I carefully transferred the cake from the plate to a neatly wrapped Chappathi கல் 😬🤪 and arranged it on a table along with Cupcakes
A closeup shot of that perfectly baked Cake..
Similarly closeup shot of the Cupcake
Recipe Notes
If you are a beginner and if you are not sure how to decorate the cake the following tips might help
Make a simple Chocolate Sauce with cocoa powder, milk, sugar and butter. Spread it on the cake
Sprinkles can add colors to the cake
You can buy Icing Syringe and it is easier to work with the icing & frosting
Have some readymade White and Dark Chocolates. If nothing works you can grate and spray them on top of cakes
Berries and fruits add freshness to cakes
You can make simple caramel from Condensed Milk and use it as a topping on cakes
If you have cookies crumble them and add it on cakes or cupcakes like I did yesterday 🙂
Have a pack of Maltese or Ferrero Rocher chocolates and add them as a topping on the Cake
My Daughter’s Birthday Cake | Eggless Chocolate Cake | Simple Chocolate cake was last modified: November 3rd, 2020 by