Saturday, July 18, 2009

Moist Chocolate Cake, Anyone???

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This is the best chocolate cake I've ever tried. I baked the Steamed Moist Chocolate Cake not too long ago and was wondering how is this oven baked Moist Chocolate Cake turn out, will it be nice?? Anyway, I stumbled upon this wonderful recipe at My Kitchen (original recipe is from kak izan on MyR) This recipe is definitely a keeper. Try it and you will know why I'm saying so...hehe!!

I LOVE everything that is related with chocolate. So, I decided to give this recipe a TRY!! Ya, this cake turn out almost perfect, moist and rich in chocolatey taste. It's worth a try if you are one of the chocolate craze out there.

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I use Hershey's natural unsweetened cocoa powder to bake this cake. This is one of my favourite brand for cocoa powder. However, I still found the cake are a bit on the sweet side. I will reduce the amount of sugar use on my next bake. My kids enjoying eating it so much, they just love it!

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Ingredients:
(5"x8" loaf pan)

Chocolate Paste:
1/2 cup cocoa powder
1/2 tsp instant coffee (optional)
1/4 cup castor sugar (reduce 1-2 tbsp if you prefer it less sweet)
1/2 cup hot water
1/4 cup evaporated/fresh milk (I use low fat milk)
pinch of salt

125g butter, softened
1 cup castor sugar
1 tsp vanilla essense
2 large eggs

1 cup cake flour
1 tsp baking powder

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Method:
  • Grease and line bottom of cake pan with baking paper and preheat the oven to 180c.
  • Combined all ingredients for chocolate paste except MILK in a mixing bowl. Hand whisk mixture till sugar are fully dissolved.
  • Add in milk, stir to mix well. Set aside.
  • Sift cake flour and baking powder together for later use.
  • In another bowl, cream butter and sugar till it is light and fluffy. Add vanilla essense and continue with eggs one at a time. Beat till well combined.
  • Gently fold in flour mixture, alternate with the chocolate paste. *Start with flour and end with flour.
  • Pour batter into cake pan and bake for 45-50 minutes or till it is cooked.
  • Leave it to cool before unmould the cake.

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One of the BEST chocolate cake EVER!!

AMY

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18 comments:

  1. tracieMooJuly 18, 2009 at 4:54 PM

    Hi! Very nice pictures there. May I know what lightings you use??

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  2. TINTINJuly 18, 2009 at 7:39 PM

    Tracie: I took the pictures under natural light. However, I wish to get a table lamp for better lighting when I snapped the pictures at night.

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  3. Sonia ~ Nasi Lemak LoverJuly 19, 2009 at 11:52 AM

    this is my husband's favorite, I want to bake for him, looking forward your recipe. Thanks in advance.

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  4. ChichaJoJuly 19, 2009 at 9:43 PM

    Yes please! :) Love the look of that crumb!

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  5. Colin WoonJuly 20, 2009 at 3:03 AM

    Sweeeet! I can definitely have some of this right now...yum...yum...

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  6. ann lowJuly 20, 2009 at 7:08 AM

    Nice moist chocolate cake and nice picture too!

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  7. Sonia ~ Nasi Lemak LoverJuly 20, 2009 at 9:02 PM

    Thanks for sharing this lovely recipe, gonna to try soon.

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  8. test it commJuly 21, 2009 at 5:19 AM

    Tat cake looks nice and dark and moist and chocolaty and good!

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  9. Sonia ~ Nasi Lemak LoverAugust 6, 2009 at 11:48 AM

    Tintin, where can I get Hershey's natural unsweetened cocoa powder ?Thanks.

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  10. UnknownNovember 27, 2009 at 11:41 PM

    yum! dark, moist, chocolatey and beautiful!

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  11. Suma RowjeeOctober 28, 2010 at 8:48 PM

    U got a lovely blog Amy!! Am gonna come back and definitely try ur recipes, will let u know how it turned out!!

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  12. Joy BakeJanuary 18, 2011 at 4:45 PM

    Amy, how much is 1 cup of cake flour .. 125gram ?

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  13. TINTINFebruary 21, 2011 at 2:06 AM

    Sonia, I got the Hershey Choco Powder from Tesco :) Sorry for the extremely late reply :)

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  14. TINTINFebruary 21, 2011 at 2:07 AM

    Thank you Rita !!

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  15. TINTINFebruary 21, 2011 at 2:07 AM

    You're welcome Suma ... Thanks for liking my blog :)

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  16. TINTINFebruary 21, 2011 at 2:12 AM

    Hi Joy Bake,

    I didn't really measure how much is 1 cup of cake flour. I use the cup we normally use for measuring baking ingredients to measure the ingredients for this recipe .. I will measure it next time if I bake this again and update it here ok?

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  17. SimonneNovember 25, 2011 at 7:06 PM

    Your cakes is making cravings for chocolate cake now.. yummy

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  18. JojoDecember 27, 2011 at 11:20 AM

    excellent recipe. We made this 3 times already and the last round for my friends. They all like it!

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