Chocolate is one of the most favorite desserts, and chocolate cake is a real treat. Recipes and ways to prepare a chocolate cake set, and each in its own unique. It is not necessary to wait for the festive date to bake a chocolate cake. You can do this just to cheer yourself up.
How to bake a chocolate cake? Believe me, this is quite easy. Do not think that once the chocolate cake, then it requires high skill and unthinkable products. In order to bake a chocolate cake at home, you just need to open the refrigerator, where you will certainly find all the necessary products.
Chocolate cake on yogurt
Ingredients:
For the test:
- flour - 3,5 items;
- kefir - 0,5 l;
- eggs - 4 pieces;
- sugar - 1,5 items;
- soda - 2 teaspoons;
- cocoa - 2 tbsp. spoons.
For cream:
- sour cream - 2,5 items;
- sugar - 1,5 tbsp.
Preparation
Mix sugar and cocoa, then pour kefir into the mixture. Add soda and flour. Separately, whisk the squirrels, gradually adding yolks. Pour the beaten eggs into the dough and mix slowly. Bake 5-6 cakes in the oven at a temperature of 180 degrees. Baking time - 40 minutes.
Prepare the cream by beating the sour cream with sugar, and sprinkle the cream with the cream. Leave the cake for the night, so that it is thoroughly soaked. Decorate the cake with chocolate shavings and fruits to taste.
Chocolate cake with strawberries
Ingredients:
For a short pastry:
- flour - 250 g;
- sugar - 100 g;
- eggs - 1 piece;
- butter - 125 g;
- baking powder - 1 teaspoon;
- vanillin.
Ingredients
- flour - 250 g;
- sugar - 150 g;
- eggs - 4 pieces;
- butter - 100 g;
- cocoa - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- baking powder - 1 teaspoon.
For cream and decoration:
- cream - 500 ml;
- cocoa - 1 teaspoon;
- powdered sugar;
- Strawberry jam;
- Strawberry - 500 g;
- chocolate - 100 g.
Preparation
First, prepare a short dough. Mix all the ingredients and take the finished dough for about an hour in the refrigerator. Then roll it out, make a smooth circle and lay it on a baking sheet with baking paper. Put in the oven for 20 minutes at a temperature of 200 degrees. For a biscuit, whip butter with sugar, add flour, eggs and remaining ingredients. As well as with a sand dough, make a smooth circle from the dough and bake for 30 minutes. While the cakes will cool down, whip the cream with cocoa and powdered sugar. Peel the sandwich cake with strawberry jam. Biscuit cut into two cakes. Put the first cake over the sand and jam. Lubricate the biscuit with cream and put the second cake. Gently trim the edges of the cake. Decorate the cake with grated chocolate and strawberries.
Chocolate-honey cake
One of the most delicious combinations is honey with bitter chocolate. Such a cake just melts in the mouth. Even if it stays for a day or two in the refrigerator, its taste will not be lost - on the contrary, it begins to resemble an air pudding.
Ingredients:
For the test:
- flour - 200 g;
- sugar - 200 g;
- butter - 200 g;
- eggs - 3 pieces;
- hydrated soda - 1 teaspoon;
- milk chocolate - 100 g;
- cocoa - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- honey (liquid) - 100 ml;
- water - 200 ml.
For glaze:
- bitter chocolate - 200 g;
- honey - 70 ml;
- water - 50 ml.
Preparation
Blend the butter with sugar. Continuing to beat, add an egg and a spoonful of flour. Stir well and add the remaining eggs, flour, cocoa and soda. Melt milk chocolate on a water bath and add it to the mixture, along with honey and hot water. Stir well. The dough should be sufficiently liquid. Pour the mass in a greased form and bake for one hour at a temperature of 180 degrees. To make the glaze, mix all the ingredients, and bring it over a low heat to homogeneity. Finish the cake with glaze and leave to cool.