On weekends it is allowed to sleep, relax and eat deliciously. A week ago we ate at Amarillo (my favourite restaurant – it serves Texmex food) with friends and today I baked a chocolate cake. The cake I made is almost like a mudcake and it is mainly made of chocolate, sugar and eggs. I haven’t baked many cakes before because I am quite lazy and I usually bake only muffins and pancakes and other “fast pastries”. I didn’t have any chocolate cake recipes so I had to google for them. I came across an easy-to-make recipe and the cake turn out to be delicious! We ate it with rasperries.

Chocolate cake

Recipe

Dough:

  • 200 grams of butter
  • 200 grams of dark chocolate
  • 4 eggs
  • 2 desilitres of sugar
  • 1.5 desilitres of wheat flour
  • 1 tea-spoon of baking powder
  • 4 table-spoons of cacao powder (for baking)

Frosting:

  • 150 grams of dark chocolate
  • 1 desilitre of cream
  • 1 table-spoon of butter
  1. Melt the butter in a pot and add chocolate. Mix until the chocolate has entirely melted.
  2. Whip the eggs with sugar.
  3. Mix the flour, the baking powder and the cacao powder.
  4. Add the melted chocolate into the egg foam and mix carefully.
  5. Strain the flour into the dough and mix (still, carefully).
  6. Pour the dough into a cake tin (that is greased and dredged).
  7. Bake about 45 minutes at 175° Celsius.

After the cake is ready, make the frosting.

  1. Heat the cream in a pot (don’t let it boil!).
  2. Add the butter and the dark chocolate.
  3. Stir until the frosting is even.
  4. Let the frosting cool for a while and then spread it on the cake.