Recipe Details

Delicious Chocolate Cake Slices

  • Cuisine:

    Continental
  • Category:

    Dessert
  • Serves:

    12 person(s)
  • Difficulty:

    Easy
  • Cost:

    Cheap

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Ingredients

  • For the cake dough:

  • 2 cups water or 500 ml
  • 3 cups caster sugar or 600 g
  • 1¼ cups butter or 250 g
  • 1/3 cup cocoa powder or 35 g
  • 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
  • 3 cups white self-raising flour or 420 g
  • 4 eggs
  • For the chocolate frosting:

  • 1 tin NESTLÉ® Sweetened Condensed Milk or 397 g
  • 2 cups dark chocolate or 300 g, broken into pieces (70% cocoa solids)
  • ½ cup whipping cream or 125 g

Preparation

Combine the water, sugar, butter, cocoa and soda bicarbonate in a medium sauce pan, stir over heat and bring to boil then simmer on low heat, uncovered for 5 minutes. Transfer the mixture to a large bowl and cool to room temperature.

Add flour and egg to the mixture and mix all together in an electric mixture until the mixture becomes smooth and changed to a paler color.

Grease a deep 26cmx33cm baking dish and cover with baking paper then pour the mixture in. Put the cake into a 180˚C preheated oven for about 45-50 minutes or until the cake becomes firm. Turn cake upside down to cool.

Combine NESTLÉ® Sweetened Condensed Milk , crushed chocolate and whipping cream in a bowl over hot water, stir until chocolate is melted. Cool to room temperature.

Spread the chocolate frosting on top of the cooled cake. Slice and serve.

Timing Facts

  • Preparation time

    50 minutes
  • Cooking time

    50 minutes