2.5 kg Chocolate Cake

This chocolate cake is a soft moist and delicious cake. It's a huge 2.5 kg cake that I made for a college farewell party last year. This cake is perfect for a celebration or a birthday party.

Ingredients

• Flour - 1 cup
• Sugar - 1 cup
• Eggs - 4
• Vanilla - 2 tsp
• Baking powder - 1 tsp
• Baking soda - 1/2 tsp
• Salt - pinch
• Cocoa powder - 4 tnsp
• Oil - 1/4 cup
• Milk - 1/4 cup
• Coffee powder - 1 tsp

Ganache

• Dark chocolate - 400 gms
• Cream - 200 gms

Chocolate Whipped Cream - 2 cups

Sugar syrup

• Sugar - 1/2 cup
• Water - 1 cup
• Coffee powder - 1/2 tsp

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Method

1. Pre heat the oven to 180 degrees C for 15 mins. Grease and line a 9 inch cake tin.

2. Take 4 eggs in a bowl and add vanilla to it. Beat the eggs till it's light and fluffy.

3. Add the sugar and continue to beat for 3 mins.

4. Add the milk and oil and beat for 30 seconds. 

5. Place a sieve over the bowl and add the plain flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, salt and coffee powder. Sieve 3 times.

6. Add the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients and gently fold to make a smooth batter.

7. Transfer the batter into the cake tin and bake in the pre heated oven for 35-40 mins or until a skewer comes out clean.

8. Bake 2 such 9 inch cakes.

9. Get the whipped cream and sugar syrup ready.

10. Place the first layer of cake on the cake board and soak with sugar syrup. 

11. Spread a layer of whipped cream and then spread ganache over it.

12. Place the next layer of cake and soak it.

13. Spread some whipped cream and crumb coat the cake. Leave the cake in the fridge for 30 mins.

14. Then spread more whipped cream and frost/decorate the cake.

STEP BY STEP PICTURES

1. Take 4 eggs in a bowl and add vanilla to it. Beat the eggs till it's light and fluffy.

2. Beat the eggs till it's light and fluffy.

3. Add the sugar and continue to beat for 3 mins.

4. Add the milk and oil and beat for 30 seconds. 

5. Place a sieve over the bowl and add the plain flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, salt and coffee powder. Sieve 3 times.

Cocoa powder

Baking powder

Baking soda

Salt

Coffee powder

Sieve 3 times

6. Transfer the batter into the cake tin and bake in the pre heated oven for 35-40 mins or until a skewer comes out clean.

7. Bake 2 such cakes

8. Get the chocolate whipped cream ready.

9. Trim the top layer off.

10. Place the first layer of cake on the cake board and soak with sugar syrup. 

11. Spread a layer of whipped cream.

and then spread ganache over it. 

12. Place the next layer of cake and soak it.

13. Spread some whipped cream and crumb coat the cake. Leave the cake in the fridge for 30 mins.

Leave it in fridge for 30 mins to set

14. Then spread more whipped cream and frost/decorate the cake.

Bible blessing - "See, God has come to save me. I will trust in him and not be afraid. The LORD God is my strength and my song; he has given me victory.” Isaiah 12:2

Until next time,

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