What is the most important element in making a cake? Many will say that it is important to prepare the cream correctly, as it makes up 70% of the cake. But, if you make an unpalatable sponge in a cake, then the cream will no longer matter.
It was the sponge that was the original cake according to the ancient Romans. With the sweet sponge began the long history of the cake. Cream in this history appeared only in the XVI-XVII centuries. Before that time, different sweet components were added to the sponge cake and it was called a cake.
However, we should not forget about the importance of a light and tender sponge cake even now. The better it absorbs the cream, the more delicious it will turn out. Let’s prepare together a chocolate cake.
Ingredients for chocolate cake:
- eggs – 4 pcs;
- sugar – 280 g;
- flour – 400 g;
- cocoa chocolate – 180 g;
- milk – 250 ml;
- vegetable oil – 30 ml;
- vanilla essence – tbsp;
- leavening agent – 1 tsp;
- cream – 200 ml;
- chocolate – 200 g.
Preparation of chocolate cake:
In a bowl mix eggs with granulated sugar and vanilla essence until grits dissolve
.Pour milk and vegetable oil into the mixture, mix.Pour
flour and baking powder into the mixture, knead a thick dough
.
Sift in the cocoa chocolate and continue kneading the dough.
Grease a 24 cm diameter baking dish with vegetable oil and pour the dough into it
.
Bake in the oven at 120 degrees for 2.5 hours.
Take the slightly cooled biscuit out of the mold and make holes with a thick stick.
Mix cream with chocolate, melt on a water bath.
Pour the chocolate glaze into the holes made.
You can decorate this cake in different ways, for example, with whipped cream.
You get a juicy chocolate cake.
