Best ever chocolate layer cake
Published: February 9, 2015 at 11:52 AM
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Serves 10
Easy
Total time: 1 hr
+ cooling
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We have the recipe for the best ever chocolate layer cake and it's easier than you would expect. A four layered cake with shiny chocolate icing, enjoy!
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Bake this showstopping chocolate layer cake, or try our ultimate chocolate fudge cake and chocolate gateau.
Ingredients
Nutrition
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175g self-raising flour
sifted
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3 tbsp 70% cocoa powder
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instant espresso coffee powder
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175g butter
plus extra for lining tin
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175g golden caster sugar
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1 tsp baking powder
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3 eggs
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1-2 tbsp milk
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100g 70% dark chocolate
melted and cooled
ICING
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500ml double cream
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500g milk chocolate
chopped
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal865
- fat63.9g
- carbs67.2g
- fibre1.8g
- protein9.5g
- salt0.82g
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Method
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step 1
Make the icing first (it takes a while to cool and thicken). Put the chocolate into a bowl. Pour the cream into a pan and heat until simmering. Take off the heat and pour it over the chocolate. Stir until the mixture is smooth. Cool, then chill, until really thick but spreadable.
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step 2
Heat the oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Butter and base-line 2 x 18cm sandwich tins with baking parchment. Take 3 tbsp flour from the full flour amount and put them back in the flour bag – the cocoa powder will make up the difference.
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step 3
Put all the cake ingredients except the chocolate in a large bowl. Beat them together with an electric whisk (or whizz in a food processor) until you have a creamy mixture, then fold in the melted chocolate. Add a little more milk if the mix is too stiff – it should fall easily from a spoon.
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step 4
Divide the mixture between the 2 tins and level. Bake on the same shelf in the oven for 20-25 minutes or until the sponge springs back when pressed. Cool for 5 minutes, turn out onto a wire rack, peel off the paper and cool completely. Cut each in half horizontally so that you have 4 layers altogether.
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step 5
Sandwich the layers together with a little icing, then spread the rest on top thickly.
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