Easy Chocolate Cake
Whip this fluffy Chocolate Cake recipe together in no time, featuring The Ultimate Loaf Bread Maker by Baccarat.
Cake Function
Servings: 6-8
Preparation time: 5 minutes
Cooking time: 1 hour 50 minutes
Ingredients
- 2 large eggs, beaten
- 80g unsalted butter, melted
- 300ml sour cream
- 275g (1 ¼ cup) caster sugar
- 190g (1 ½ cup) plain flour
- 60g (½ cup) cocoa powder
- 5g (1 tsp) table salt
- 2g (½ teaspoon) baking soda
- 2g (½ teaspoon) baking powder
Chocolate Buttercream (optional)
- 150g (1 cup) icing sugar
- 1 tbsp cocoa powder
- 20g melted butter
- 2 tbsp condensed milk
Method
- Sift together the flour, cocoa powder, salt, baking soda and baking powder.
- Using the Baccarat The Ultimate Loaf Bread Maker, fix the kneading paddles onto the drive shafts and add the eggs, butter, sour cream and sugar into the bread pan, followed by the sifted dry ingredients.
- Press the 'Menu' button and select the '8' (CAKE) function, then press 'START/STOP' to begin the cycle.
- After five minutes, scrape down the sides of the bread pan with a spatula.
- Once the baking cycle is complete, press 'START/STOP' and remove the cake from the bread pan. Cool to room temperature for at least 5 minutes before cutting. Cool to room temperature if icing.
- To make the chocolate buttercream, beat together the icing sugar, cocoa powder and butter until smooth. Add the condensed milk gradually to reach a spreadable consistency. Spread onto the cooled chocolate cake.
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