Simple Way to Prepare Favorite Rich Chocolate cake

Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, rich chocolate cake. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Rich Chocolate cake is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Rich Chocolate cake is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook rich chocolate cake using 16 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Rich Chocolate cake:

1. Prepare Cake
2. Take 230 grams Self raising flour
3. Get 50 grams Cocoa powder
4. Take 240 grams Softened butter
5. Take 240 grams Caster sugar
6. Get 1/2 dozen Eggs (beaten)
7. Take 2 tsp Baking powder
8. Get 30 ml Water
9. Make ready 1/2 can sliced peaches
10. Make ready Chocolate ganache icing
11. Make ready 300 grams Dark chocolate
12. Get 300 ml Double cream
13. Take 5 ml Vanilla essence
14. Prepare 3 tbsp Fruit jam
15. Make ready Topping (optional)
16. Prepare 1/2 box strawberries

Steps to make Rich Chocolate cake:

1. Preheat oven to 160°C/325°F/Gas Mark 3. Grease and line cake tin.
2. Mix the softened butter, sugar and cocoa powder in a bowl
3. Lightly beat eggs and finely mash peaches in separate bowls
4. Slowly add eggs and peaches to cocoa mix, stirring continously
5. Fold in flour and baking powder bit by bit, whisking mixture in between.
6. Spoon into cake tin and bake for 40-45 mins or until risen and springy to touch. Cool upside down on a wire rack for 15 mins and turn out and set aside to cool completely.
7. To make icing, break chocolate into a heatproof bowl and pour in cream and vanilla essence. Melt over a pan of simmering water
8. Cool icing, stirring occasionally. Chill lightly until it thickens.
9. Split cake in half. Spread jam on one half and half of the icing on the other.
10. Sandwich the two halves together and spread rest of icing on top, swirling it attractively with the tip of a table knife. Decorate as desired. I personally like to slice strawberries and place them neatly on the top but whatever works for you.

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