Chocolate Cake - General Cooking Principles
It does not matter what age you are, gender, nationality or social status - it is worthwhile for anyone to hear the fragrant smell of chocolate cake, and he will do everything to get it! Chocolate is known for elevating mood and making a person happy. In this lies the lack of delicious treats, because many unhappy and lonely people absorb it with immeasurable quantities and as a result recover. Well, this is not surprising, even a medicine can become a poison if you do not follow the measure. Therefore, if we are moderate in tasting delicious and healthy chocolate, there will be no harm. The same goes for chocolate cake. Unusual pastry combines the beauty of chocolate with the softness of biscuit text. Any candy confectionery prepares a chocolate cake, but believe that at home you can make a dish as good as possible.
Chocolate cake - preparation of food and dishes
How does a regular cupcake get chocolate? This happens due to the addition of cocoa. Do not save on this product. You can use inexpensive confectionery cocoa powder, but the best way is to get a real divine drink in dry form with a high content of cocoa beans (from 90%). Using such cocoa for baking, you will immediately see the difference - the chocolate cake will turn out a noble brown color with an incredible smell. Such cocoa is best bought not in supermarkets, but at specialized points of sale of tea and coffee. Of course, at the price it will exceed the confectionery powder at times, but believe (and check) that it is worth it.
The necessary ingredients are also flour, egg, sugar, salt. Flour should be sieved before cooking, then the dough will be more airy.
Chocolate Muffin Recipes:
Recipe 1: Chocolate Cupcake
Prepare a traditional cupcake without additives. Treats can be made both in small tins (best of all take silicone), and in one big one. Do not use margarine or spread instead of butter to make a cupcake. This "tricky trick" in cooking may not help you save, but at the exit you will get a very tasty dish, but not a surrogate.
Ingredients Required:
- Cocoa for cake 5 tbsp. l
- Flour 2.5 cups
- Milk 200 ml
- Egg 5 pieces
- Baking powder for dough 1 sachet
- Sugar 1.5 cups
- Salt
- Butter 150 grams
- Sunflower oil
Cooking method:
- The first thing is to prepare the icing, which is also one of the components of the dough. To do this, melt butter, mix it with sugar and cocoa. Approximately two thirds of the total mass will take for the test, and the rest will go to the decoration.
- When the mixture of butter, sugar and cocoa is cooled, add flour in a thin stream, baking powder, egg, milk. Knead well.
- Grease the cake pan with vegetable oil, pour the dough into it. Send the dough to bake in the oven for 20-25 minutes at 180 degrees.
- When the cupcake is ready, remove it from the mold and grease it with icing. Delicacy is ready!
Recipe 2: Cherry Chocolate Muffin
Sweet and sour cherry goes well with chocolate. Surprise your loved ones by making a chocolate muffin with cherries.
Ingredients Required:
- Flour 200 grams
- Egg 4 pieces
- Butter 100 grams
- Baking powder for dough 1 sachet
- Salt
- Sugar 1 glass
- Milk 200 ml
- Cherry 1 glass
- Vegetable oil
Cooking method:
- Wash the cherries and remove the bones from the berries. Allow the cherry to drain, because the extra juice will interfere with baking.
- Combine dry ingredients, mix well.
- In a separate container, beat the eggs until thick foam.
- Melt butter, pour into the mixture, mix. Add milk, beaten egg and turn the mixture into a dough without lumps.
- Add cherries to the dough, mix well again.
- Grease a baking dish with butter, pour the dough and send to the oven for 20 minutes to bake at 180 degrees.
Recipe 3: Chocolate Muffin with Chocolate
Chocolate cupcake with chocolate? What is it, a reservation? In fact, there is no mistake. Usually, in baking with chocolate, cocoa plays the role of the desired ingredient. In addition to cocoa, we also add pieces of black chocolate.
Ingredients Required:
- Flour 2 glasses
- Chicken egg 4 pieces of medium size
- Sugar 100 grams
- Cocoa 4 tablespoons
- Chocolate bar 100 grams
- Salt
- Milk 150 ml
- Butter 150 grams
- Vegetable oil
Cooking method:
- Prepare the dough as described in previous recipes. For mix all dry ingredients. Pour in the milk there.
- Beat the egg separately until frothy.
- The oil must be melted and poured in a thin stream into the mixture, stirring continuously. Add also an egg there. The dough should be homogeneous, without lumps.
- Break the chocolate into pieces and stir in the dough.
- Pour cake pan and pour dough into it. Bake a chocolate muffin in the oven for twenty minutes at 180 degrees.
Recipe 3: Chocolate Muffin on Water
Prepare delicious pastries on the water. For this recipe, we will not use butter, but take a little vegetable, because the chocolate cake will not be as high-calorie as in the previous versions. But even this version of "light" will drive you crazy, both in flavor and taste. Add nuts and raisins to chocolate cake, it will be much tastier.
Ingredients Required:
- Flour 2 glasses
- Corn starch 2 tablespoons
- Chicken egg 5 pieces
- Vegetable oil ½ cup
- Water 200 ml
- Sugar 150 grams
- Powdered milk 2 tablespoons
- Cocoa 4 tablespoons
- Salt
- Walnut 50 grams
- Peanuts 50 grams
- Raisin 50 grams
- Walnut 50 grams
Cooking method:
- First of all, turn on the oven at 220 degrees - the oven for making a cake with this recipe should be well warmed up.
- Mix water, butter, cocoa and sugar. Put the mixture on the fire, stir until the first bubbles. As soon as the icing boils, remove from heat. Chill.
- In a separate container using a mixer or blender, beat the egg. When it turns into a thick foam, add to it a cooled glaze in a thin stream.
- Mix all the dry ingredients and add to the liquid mass. Turn everything into a homogeneous dough without lumps.
- Chop nuts. Raise the raisins with hot water for 10 minutes, after washing it. Drain the water and wash the raisins again.
- Add nuts and raisins to the dough.
- Grease the cake pan and pour the dough into it. Put the cake in the oven for 10 minutes at a temperature of 220 degrees. After that, reduce the temperature to 160 degrees, and bake another 20-25 minutes.
Chocolate cake - secrets and tips from the best chefs
- Chocolate cake is very tasty bitter, especially if you make it with hard chocolate. But according to the rules of cooking it is best to put it in the fridge after cooking overnight.
- To make the dough more crumbly, you can replace the baking powder for the dough with corn starch (it is more useful than potato). But it is better not to use soda.
- To enhance the flavor of the cake, add vanilla or rum essence to the dough.
- The color and taste of the finished product depends on the amount of cocoa. The less you put such an additive (two tablespoons), the more tender and light the color of the cake will be. If you put 4-5 tablespoons of cocoa (real, not pastry), the cake will be almost black, with a thick chocolate flavor.
