Recipe: Perfect Chocolate cake

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This cake, 'born' out of a pregnancy craving, worked out amazingly! Marcela Valladolid makes Chocoflan, one of Mexico's most famous desserts. This sweet treat includes a layer of chocolate cake, a layer of creamy flan and a drizzle of cajeta, or Mexican caramelized. You can have Chocolate cake using 8 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Chocolate cake

1. It's 375 grams of plain chocolate, chopped.
2. Prepare 175 grams of unsalted butter.
3. It's 175 grams of light muscovado sugar.
4. It's 4 of eggs.
5. Prepare 2 tsp of vanilla essence.
6. You need 150 grams of self raising flour.
7. It's 55 grams of ground almonds.
8. Prepare 125 ml of double cream.

Stir together sugar, flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt in large bowl. Stir in boiling water (batter will be thin). Combine flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with milk, beating until smooth after each addition. Chop the chocolate and place it in a heat-proof bowl set over a pan of simmering water.

Chocolate cake instructions

1. Preheat oven to 180 (I currently use a fan assisted electric oven). Grease and line cake tin..
2. Melt 250g chocolate in a bowl over a pan of hot water. Remove from the heat and cool slightly..
3. Beat the butter and sugar until pale fluffy and then gradually beat in the eggs. Stir in the melted chocolate and 1 teaspoon of the vanilla essence..
4. Fold in the flour and almonds evenly..
5. Spoon mixture into tin and smooth over with spatula. Place in the oven and cook for 1 and a 1/2 hours or until risen and a skewer comes out clean..
6. Remove from the oven and leave to cool in the tin for 10 minutes and then turn out onto a wire rack to cool completely..
7. Heat the remaining chocolate and vanilla essence in a pan until melted and then blend in the Baileys. Let the mixture cool so it thickens. Cut the cake in half and spread the filling over the bottom half before sandwiching back together..

Stir until just melted and set aside until cooled to room temperature. In the bowl of an electric mixer. Our chocolate cake recipes include: easy one-bowl recipes, tiered cakes with frostings and fillings, mini cupcakes, Texas sheet cake, as well as gluten-free chocolate cakes and vegan chocolate cake. Frost cake with Chocolate Buttercream Frosting. Dust with flour and tap out the excess.

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