okay this has to be one of the best chocolate cakes I have ever made it is super rich and
fudgy and I knew it was good when my husband who really doesn't like chocolate cake asked
me for seconds so to start off you want to preheat your oven to 160 degrees Celsius with the fan on
and grease and line two eight inch cake tins I'm using my homemade cake release to grease my
tins but then I'm also lining the bottom with some baking paper that I've pre-cut into circles
this cake is Rich and delicate so you have to use baking paper to make sure it releases from
the cake tin in one piece set these aside and in a bowl sift together your dry ingredients so I've
got one and a half cups of flour half a cup of cocoa powder one teaspoon of baking powder one
teaspoon of baking soda and half a teaspoon of salt and then using a whisk just whisk that all
together until well combined [Music] okay set that aside in another Bowl add in three quarters of a
cup of unsalted butter and one and a quarter cups of good quality dark chocolate I use 50%
dark chocolate and then melt that together in the microwave for 30 seconds at a time giving
it a mix in between each burst until it's fully melted you can do this over a double boiler as
well okay once that is all nicely melted add in a third of a cup of room temperature milk and using
a whisk mix that together until well combined this will help to bring down the temperature of
our mixture next you want to add in one and a half cups of white sugar one and a half tablespoons of
instant coffee powder a quarter cup of unflavored vegetable oil one teaspoon of vanilla and two eggs
then again using a whisk just mix that together for about a minute or so until well combined
now after about a minute or so you want to have kind of little bubbles in your mixture and then
the next thing to do is to add in your pre-sifted dry ingredients and then again using a whisk just
mix that together until just combined you want to make sure that you're not over mixing this
now the last step is to add in half a cup of very hot water and then mix that in until just
combined again do not over mix the batter and you want to make sure that your water is super
hot because this is going to help release the flavors particularly in our cocoa powder okay
now all that's left to do is to evenly distribute this batter into our two pre-prepared cake tins
oh my God this batter smells so good and then just give them a light tap to get rid of any
large air bubbles and now these are going to go into the oven for 30 minutes or until a toothpick
comes out clean if it has a few moist crumbs on it then that's totally okay too so my cakes are
out of the oven now they smell incredible they've been Cooling in the tins for about 30 minutes and
now I'm going to turn them out onto a wire rack to completely cool now one thing to note about
these cake layers is that they do ever so slightly sink in the middle but that's okay that's totally
normal for this recipe so don't worry about it now set these aside to cool and we're going to move on
to our chocolate fudge frosting you don't want to skip it trust me it is literally a match made in
heaven when paired with this cake so start off by placing a saucepan or pot over a medium heat
and add in one cup of whipping cream you want to heat it up until you start to see little bubbles
forming around the edges of the pan okay so I can see some little bubbles starting to form now and
at this point you want to turn down the heat to low and add in four teaspoons of cocoa powder and
then you just want to give that little mix until it's well combined if there are a few little lumps
that aren't quite mixing in properly then that's okay next add in 2.5 half cups so about 400 grams
of good quality dark chocolate again I'm using 50% dark one cup of unsalted butter one cup of icing
sugar half a teaspoon of instant coffee powder half a teaspoon of salt and two teaspoons of
vanilla and then you just want to keep gently stirring this until all the solid ingredients
are melted and you have a nice smooth texture now once that's done this smells incredible by
the way you just want to strain it into a heat proof Bowl to get rid of any lumps and then you
want to cover the top with some cling wrap so that it's directly touching the top of the frosting and
this is just going to help prevent a skin from forming as it cools and that is literally our
frosting all done now this just needs some time to cool down and thicken up so I'm going to pop
it into the fridge to speed up the process so it's about two hours later now my cake layers are cool
my frosting is at a nice spreadable consistency and now we're ready to stack this cake so I'm
starting off by placing my first cake layer onto my cake stand and then spreading a generous amount
of frosting on top and spreading that out with my offset spatula next I'm placing my next cake
layer on top so that the bottom of the cake is the top of my layer cake so that it's nice and flat on
top and again I'm just spreading out a generous amount of frosting now this cake is a little bit
crumbly so you know you can go ahead and do a crumb coat if you want but I'm just going to
go ahead and do another thick layer of frosting around the edges and then smooth it out with my
cake scraper and then I'm just using my offset spatula to scrape that lip of frosting into the
middle of the cake so that I have a nice smooth edge now I have made a little bit of a mess so
I'm just using some tissue paper to clean up the bottom okay now that looks neat enough and now
I'm going to finish off by piping some frosting on the top of my cake using a large round tip
which is known as a 1A piping tip my frosting is still a little soft for piping but you know
if you just let this sit for a little longer just pop it into the fridge it'll firm up and that is
it my super delicious chocolate cake is all done this cake is honestly a chocolate Lover's Dream
it is so so indulgent super rich and moist and yeah you guys are just absolutely gonna love it
okay that is so so good I don't even know what to say this is literally chocolate
in Cake form and that fudge frosting is literally the icing on the cake it is so
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