There is nothing better than indulging in baking or eating a piece of the classic chocolate cake on a bad day. Are you one of those people who are facing issues and accidents from the start of the day? Did you really have a bad day at the office and also has a tiff with your partner? Is nothing going right from the time your day started? In such a case, the best is to have something sinfully sweet that perks up the mood instantly. Along with eating baking is considered as one of the moos therapies that you can pamper your senses with.

For those people who want to try their hands on something as great and classy as a chocolate cake, needs to go through the recipe guide below. It has one of the top notch recipes that you will love to make and all the more get addicted to eating it! Check it out!

How to Prepare Chocolate Cake

This is one recipe that has been carefully made keeping in mind the chocolate enthusiasts who love the extreme power of chocolate in their dishes. The recipe follows for your convenience:

Serves: 4-6 people

Ingredients Bag:

White Sugar: 2 cups
Unsweetened Cocoa Powder: ¾ cup and 1 ½ cups
All Purpose Flour: 1 ¾ cups
Baking Soda: 1 ½ teaspoons
Salt: 1 teaspoon
Baking Powder: 1 ½ teaspoons
Milk: 1 and 2/3 cups
Eggs: 2
Vegetable Oil: ½ cup
Boiling Water: 1 cup
Vanilla Extract: 3 teaspoons
Butter: ¾ cup
Confectioner’s Sugar: 5 and 1/3 cup

Method to Bake the Cake:

Preheat the oven to 350 degree F which is approximately 175 degree C. this should be done at least 10-15 minutes prior to baking the cake. Along with this, keep ready 2 9 inches greased baking pan.

The ingredients that you need to make the cake should be mixed in a medium bowl. These include the flour, sugar, salt, ¾ cup cocoa, baking soda and the baking powder. To this add the eggs one by one and then 1 cup milk, 2 teaspoons vanilla extract as well as the vegetable oil and beat it well until fluffy and light.

Now add in the boiling water with hand and then pour this mixture in two greased pans that you has kept aside.

This should be baked for the next 35 minutes or so or till the time a toothpick in the centre of the cake comes out clean. This should be taken out from the oven and cooled for 10 minutes before turning on the wire and then cooling it completely.

The next is to make the frosting of the cake using the other ingredients. Cream the butter by beating it until it becomes light in nature. To this add in the remaining cocoa powder as well as the confectioner’s sugar. This should be put in alternatively with the milk as well as vanilla extract.

This should be beaten until smooth and in a consistency to be used as a spread. Now split the cake into layers and generously use the cake frosting in between. Stack them on each other and frost the top and sides as well. Finish it with chocolate curls.

Serve chilled.

A Twist in the Tale!

Chocolate Cake with Eggless Edge

This is one of the sinful yet eggless cake recipes for those who are planning to go completely vegetarian! In this case, you really do not have to compromise on not eating or indulging in such desserts. You can easily prepare the recipe given below which is easy as well as eggless at the same time.

To know more about this twist in the tale, keep reading guys!

Serves: 5-6 people

Ingredients Bag:

All Purpose Flour: 4 ½ cups
White Sugar: 3 cups
Vegetable Oil: 1 cup
Unsweetened Cocoa Powder: 1 cup
Vanilla Extract: 3 tablespoons
Water: 3 cups
Salt: ½ teaspoon
Baking Soda: 3 teaspoons

Method to Prepare:

Let the oven preheat at 350 degree F (175 degree C) and by that time start preparing the batter for the cake. Make sure you also grease a 9×13 inch baking cake pan for the same.
Take a large bowl separately and to this add the sifted flour, baking soda, cocoa powder as well as the salt. Add in the sugar now and mix everything well.

To this batter add in the vegetable oil, water and the vanilla extract and mix thoroughly till all the ingredients are well combined. Make sure that the batter is completely smooth and free from any lumps before you actually pour it in the cake pan that has been greased and kept aside.

This should be patted a little to bring out all the air bubbles that has been trapped in the cake mix. Now bake the cake in the preheated oven for the next I hour or till the time a toothpick in the centre of the cake comes out clean.

Once this is done, you can take out the pan and let it cool for about 10 minutes before turning off the cake on a wire rack and letting it cool completely.

This can be chilled and served cold or else served warm without frosting. One can also try to prepare a chocolate glazing with cocoa and apply on the cake to enhance the look and the taste of the cake.

Tips:

Make sure you give the cake proper time to bake and become fluffy. Since it does not have the eggs, it is very important to both bake it well and not to forget the addition of baking soda to the batter. One can also try adding any aerated drink to the cake batter instead of water to bring that fluffiness and substitute the eggs.

You can easily frost the cake with cream as well depending upon what the results you are looking for.

One can also store the cake in pieces in an air tight container and enjoy it dry whenever they have a sweet tooth!

These are the two basic but extremely sinful chocolate cake recipes, one with eggs and the other without eggs for both kinds of people! both the recipes are great in their own ways and can be tried without second thoughts.