Sunday, January 17, 2010

How To Make a Chocolate Cake

Do you want to start making birthday cakes but don’t know where or how to get started? You can stop worrying now as this article will provide you with the basic steps on how to prepare the best birthday cake!

Similar to cooking different styles of cuisine for special occasions, making birthday cakes also requires skill, effort, time, and a budget. If you want to prepare a chocolate cake to surprise your best friend or relative on their special day, you need to make sure you are prepared so that it doesn’t become a stressful event.

Chocolate cake is often a favorites with many people in the UK and America and there are many varieties depending on the ingredients that you use and the baking times.

Therefore before you start preparing a chocolate cake, you really need to find out the utensils needed, the recipe as well as the procedure to get it done well.

The Utensils for baking chocolate cakes includes:

9 inch Pan
A Large Bowl
A Cooking Spoon
Measuring Cups
Tooth Pick

Below is the Recipe of Chocolate Cake:

All-purpose flour – 11/2 cups (375ml)
Granulated sugar – 11/4 cups (300mil)
Coca -1/2 cup (125ml)
Baking powder – 1 tsp. (5ml)
Baking soda – 1 tsp. (5ml)
Salt – 1/2tsp. (5ml)
Hard Margarine – 1/2cup (125ml)
Large Eggs – 2Vanilla – 1 tsp. (5ml)
Hot Water – 1 cup (250ml)

For you to successfully bake your chocolate cake, the procedure below can aid you

Measure all 10 ingredients in a large bowl base on the order given. Beat on low speed until moistened. Then beat on medium for about 1 minute, scraping down sides of bowl, till it gets smooth. Have your pan greased. Bake in 350F (175C) oven for about 35 minutes and then stick the tooth pick in and out the until tooth pick comes out clean. Cool in pan for 5 minutes, before icing. Have it sliced into 16 pieces.