Eggless dark chocolate cake
Two-layer chocolate cake with fresh cream and strawberries. Serves 10
A dark, moist eggless chocolate sponge, split and moistened with orange juice, filled and covered with whipped fresh cream, and finished with halved strawberries and grated chocolate. A show-stopping birthday cake.
- Total time
- 80 min
- Difficulty
- medium
- Serves
- 10
Ingredients
For the cake
For the icing
For moistening
For decoration
Method
0/10 doneStep 1: Heat the oven to 325°F (275°F fan). Grease a 23 cm round tin lightly and dust it with flour, tapping out the surplus.
Step 2: Mix all the cake ingredients thoroughly: 9 oz self-raising flour, 13 ½ oz sweetened condensed milk, 3 ½ oz butter, 2 tbsp icing sugar, 3 tbsp cocoa powder, 1 tbsp drinking chocolate, 1 cup warm water, 1 tsp vanilla essence, ¾ tsp bicarbonate of soda and 1 ½ tsp baking powder.
Step 3: Pour into the tin and bake for 40 minutes. It is done when well risen, springy when pressed with a fingertip and a toothpick comes out clean. Try not to open the oven door during baking.
40 minStep 4: Turn out onto a rack and cool the cake completely.
Step 5: Beat the 1 ⅛ lb fresh cream, 3 tbsp icing sugar and 1 tsp vanilla essence until it thickens. Stop as soon as it holds soft peaks: over-beating curdles the cream.
Step 6: Cut the cake horizontally in half. Moisten the bottom layer with half the ½ cup orange juice and spread a quarter of the cream over it.
Step 7: Put the second half on top and moisten it with the remaining juice.
Step 8: Put the remaining cream in the fridge for half an hour to firm up.
30 minStep 9: Ice the whole cake smoothly with the cream.
Step 10: Decorate the top with 10 strawberries and grated 1 ¾ oz cooking chocolate.
Nutrition per serving
- Calories
- 525 kcal
- Protein
- 8 g
- Carbs
- 55 g
- Fat
- 32 g
- Fibre
- 3 g
Nutrition values are estimates.
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Good to know
- How long does eggless dark chocolate cake take?
- About 80 minutes in total: 40 minutes to prepare and 40 minutes to cook.
- How many people does it serve?
- 10 as written. Change the servings above the ingredients and every amount scales to match.
- Is it vegetarian?
- Yes. It has no meat or fish.
- What can I use instead of self-raising flour?
- Plain flour + 2 tsp baking powder per 150g (1 cup).
- What can I use instead of sweetened condensed milk?
- Oat, soy or almond milk, same amount (use unsweetened for savoury dishes).
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