Simple chocolate cake
- Published: 30 Sep 09
- Updated: 26 May 25
This is a really easy chocolate cake recipe. Once you’ve made the cake itself, you can dress it up any way you fancy – for example, you could fill it with whipped cream and jam instead of chocolate icing. Or, after icing or buttercreaming, why not decorate with colourful sweets or chocolate buttons for a birthday cake?
Then when you’re feeling confident with your baking, take it up a level, with our triple chocolate layer cake.
We’ve also got a chocolate mud cake recipe, and John Whaite’s super-moreish chocolate cola cake recipe to check out.
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Serves 10 -
Takes 20 minutes to make, 20-25 minutes to cook, plus cooling
Before you start
You can really taste the quality of the chocolate in this cake icing – so it’s worth buying something top quality – the best you can afford.
Whenever you’re mixing a cake batter that contains flour, you don’t want to mix it too vigorously. Lots of motion will develop the gluten in the flour, which turns cake sponge more chewy and dense rather than light and fluffy.
When melting chocolate over simmering water, make sure the base of the bowl isn’t touching the water – otherwise the heat can be too high and your chocolate will seize and turn grainy.
Nutrition
- Calories
- 728kcals
- Fat
- 51g (31g saturated)
- Protein
- 6.5g
- Carbohydrates
- 66.2g (55g sugar)
- Salt
- 0.8g
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Watch how to make our simple chocolate cake here: