SIMPLE MOIST CHOCOLATE CAKE RECIPE

Equipment

  • Measuring Scale
  • Measuring spoons
  • Mixing bowl
  • Fork or Whisk
  • Cake Pans
  • Cooling rack

Ingredients

  • 240 g Plain Flour (All purpose flour)
  • 360 g Caster or Granulated sugar
  • 60 g Unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 2 teaspoons Baking soda
  • 1.5 teaspoons Baking powder
  • ¾ cup Vegetable or Sunflower oil
  • 3 Eggs
  • ½ cup Buttermilk
  • ½ cup Boiling hot Water

Instructions

  • Measure out the ingredients. Preheat the oven.ingredients for the recipe displayed.
  • Lightly grease the cake pans with butter and line with baking paper. Set aside.Sift the flour into a bowl then add baking soda, baking powder, and sugar. Mix well and set aside. The dry ingredients mixed in a bowl.
  • In another bowl (mixing bowl), add the eggs, milk, and oil then whisk. The wet ingredients mixed in another bowl.
  • Add in the flour mixture and stir till it forms batter then add the boiling hot water and mix till batter is smooth.the chocolate cake batter in a bowl.
  • Pour the cake batter into the prepared cake pans and put them in the oven. Bake at a temperature of 170C for 35 minutes or till skewer when inserted, comes out clean. the batter poured in two cake pans.
  • Bring the cakes out of the oven and leave them in the cake pans for 5 minutes before turning onto a cooling rack. Remove the baking paper and leave the cakes to cool completely. baked cakes on a cooling rack.
  • You can then serve or fill and cover with chocolate buttercream frosting or any frosting of your choice.frosted 8 inch chocolate cake.

Notes

  • Bring the butter to room temperature before using.
  • Bake the cake in the middle of the oven by putting the cake pans on the middle rack. This ensures even heat distribution to make your cake cook perfectly. 
  • Before putting frosting and decorating, let the cake cool completely. 
  • Add chocolate chips for extra chocolatey goodness.
  • To make it gluten-free, replace the flour with gluten-free flour.
  • You can replace the oil with melted butter.
  • To avoid cake sinking in the middle, do not open the oven in the first 25 minutes while the cakes are baking as this will cause loss of heat.

Nutrition

Calories: 340kcal | Carbohydrates: 49g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 16g | Saturated Fat: 12g | Cholesterol: 42mg | Sodium: 263mg | Potassium: 126mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 31g | Vitamin A: 76IU | Calcium: 56mg | Iron: 2mg