Perfect chocolate cake
We all need a bit of a choclate fix from time to time and for those worried about your heart and the extra few pounds you are bound to put on during winter, here is a special one for you.
What you need
5 tablespoons cocoa
Quarter cup boiling water
2 teaspoons vanilla essence
16 egg whites
2 teaspoons cream of tartar
365g cater sugar
1 cup cake flour
1ml salt
The Process
Mix cocoa and boiling hot water until a smooth paste forms. Add the vanilla.
Beat egg whites in a bowl just until they start foaming. Add cream of tartar and beat until soft peaks form.
Beat in sugar, a quarter cup at a time, until the mixture looks like a glossy, thick meringue.
Spoon 1 cup of the egg mixture into the cocoa mixture and blend in.
Sift flour and salt over remaining egg mixture and fold in. Add the cocoa mixture and blend in.
Pour batter into an ungreased loose-base chiffon tin 25cm in diameter. Tap the bottom of the tin to
release any air bubbles.
Bake at 180 degrees Celsius for 40 minutes. The cake will rise above the rim of cake tin and a few cracks will form.
Leave cake in the tin to cool. When completely cool, cut cake around edges and push base of tin to release the cake, dust with icing sugar or cocoa powder.
Hello, I tried this cake recipe few hours ago but somehow couldn’t achieve the same result as you, my cake definitely wasn’t looking that good (atleast it tasted good). What kind of chocolate are you using? Maybe it’s because of the flour I used, i’m gluten intelorant so I used Rice flour instead of normal wheat flour.
Hi Sharleen, I would imagine it is the rice flour, gluten free cooking is a whole new world… Cheers G
it looks delicious and it tastes the same
Nothing like a great chocolate cake, thanks for letting us know Kaemo
OK, I think this is what you are looking for. I havn’t made it but looks good!
http://www.unileverfoodsolutions.co.za/recipes/categories/show/624-1774-0-R0010286.bar_one_conti_cake.html
Hi Marianne, thats the second time I have been asked for a bar one recipe. I will do some research and if it’s out there I will find it! Have a great weekend. G
Dear Graham
Do you by any chance have a recipe for a Bar One Chocolate Cake? I somehow think the Bar One is used in the icing – not sure.
Tks very much and kind regards
Marianne Holding
Wow, I like your style Lynn… go big or go home hey. I do have a really decadent chocolate icing and will hook it out tonight.
Hi Graham
This looks absolutley devine, do you perhaps have any chocolate icing recipes i have heard about a mars bar one and cant find a recipe.
thank you