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Showing posts with label Cake. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cake. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Chocolate cake with cream

I made this for my friend's birthday. Turned out to be pretty good. Try it!

Ingredients:

For cake:
4 eggs
1 cup sugar
2 tsp vanilla(optional)
3 tbsp cacao
1.5 cups flour

For cream:
1 cup whipped cream

For decorating:
1 cup whipped cream
0.5 cup chocolate sauce (see for recipe on blog or buy ready sauce)
50 gr chocolate chips
marshmallows(optional)
strawberries(or any other berries)


Preparation:
Preheat oven to 180C. In the bowl mix eggs and sugar until it becomes white. In the other bowl mix cacao, flour and baking powder. Add flour mix to the eggs while mixing. Pour the dough into the baking form and bake for ~25-30 minutes. While it is baking prepare whipped cream and leave it in refrigerator for at least 15 minutes. After cake is cooled cut it in 2 halves horizontally. Pour ~100 ml of milk on lower part to soften it and then spread 1 cup of whipped cream. Soften the upper part with milk too and cover the lower part. After that cover the whole cake with whipped cream. Pour chocolate sauce on it. Make small circles from marshmallows and spread them and chocolate chips on top of cake(or decorate with sth else). Decorate with strawberries or anything else.

Enjoy!

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Cacao cinnamon cake

For cinnamon lovers! I ended up baking it for my friends who, as it turns out, don't like cinnamon. so check your audience before cooking :) you can decrease amount of cinnamon if that is too much for you

Ingredients:
3 cups flour
5 eggs
2 cups sugar
2 butter sticks
3 tablespoons cacao
2 tablespoons cinnamon
1 cup milk
2 teaspoons baking powder

Preparation:

Preheat oven to 150C.
Melt butter in a small pan, add cacao and cinnamon to the butter after melting, mix well and leave to cool.
Place eggs and sugar to the mixing bowl and mix it with mixer for 3-4 minutes until it becomes whitish. Slowly add butter mixture while mixing. After that slowly add milk, flour and then baking powder. Don't add baking powder directly to the mixture. add it with a small amount of flour. mix for 2 more minutes.
Pour the mixture into the baking form and put in the preheated oven for about 80-90 minutes.

Enjoy!