DISH RESEARCH · Dessert
chocolate cake
Also known as: Cake, chocolate, commercially prepared with chocolate frosting, in-store bakery, Cake, chocolate, homemade, iced, Cake, chocolate, homemade, uniced, Cake, chocolate, not filled, homemade, Cake, chocolate, prepared from recipe without frosting, Cake, chocolate, with filling and icing, retail
Susan Reid’s chocolate cake combines butter and vegetable oil with cocoa, flour, milk and eggs, using either brewed coffee or water. Her selected chocolate frosting mixes a cooled cocoa-and-cream preparation into whipped butter and sugar, and the slices are served cold or at room temperature.
About chocolate cake
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Susan Reid’s chocolate cake combines butter with vegetable oil for a moist crumb and a relatively mellow chocolate flavour. Her recipe pairs the cake with its linked chocolate frosting, while allowing either natural or Dutch-process cocoa.
Flour, leaveners, salt, cocoa and sugar are sifted together. Butter and oil are mixed in until sandy, then milk, vanilla and brewed coffee or water are added before the eggs are beaten in one at a time.
The thin batter is baked in the prepared pan until the centre springs back and a tester comes out clean. The cake cools completely before frosting; Reid offers a sheet cake and several layer arrangements.
For the selected frosting, cocoa and part of the confectioners’ sugar are whisked with simmered cream and cooled. Butter is beaten with the remaining sugar, salt and vanilla, then the cocoa mixture is added gradually; espresso powder is optional.
The frosted cake is refrigerated briefly to help the coating set and make slicing easier. Reid explicitly serves the slices cold or at room temperature, with the chocolate frosting kept distinct from her suggested alternative seven-minute frosting.
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