Chocolate cake

Duncan Wambua
Duncan Wambua @wambuzi
Nairobi, Kenya

A friend of mine asked me to bake a cake for her boyfriend. Which I made with all my heart even though I'm single 😂. Here is my simple chocolate cake recipe. Enjoy

Chocolate cake

A friend of mine asked me to bake a cake for her boyfriend. Which I made with all my heart even though I'm single 😂. Here is my simple chocolate cake recipe. Enjoy

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Ingredients

4hrs
8 servings
  1. 3 cupsself raising flour
  2. 2 cupsall purpose flour
  3. 1\2 cup cocoa
  4. 2 cupssugar
  5. 4eggs
  6. 500 mlmilk
  7. 2table spoons vanilla essence
  8. 1 cupmelted butter
  9. Icing
  10. 400 gdark chocolate compound
  11. 200 gwhite chocolate

Cooking Instructions

4hrs
  1. 1

    Mix all the dry ingredients in a paper bag and all the wet ingredients in a bowl.

  2. 2

    In a separate bowl, mix all the wet and dry ingredients and whisk.

  3. 3

    When you attain a fine mixture with no flour or bubbles its ready.

  4. 4

    Preheat your oven at 180° for 20mims

  5. 5

    Spread butter in your baking pan and cover with a bit of flour.

  6. 6

    Add your mixture into the pan and set it at the middle of the oven. Cook for about 30mins before the first check.

  7. 7

    Dip a knife at the center to check whether the cake is cooked all through. Its ready when the knife comes out clean.

  8. 8

    For the icing I melted my dark chocolate and added a spoon full of butter to it. I covered the whole cake with dark chocolate.

  9. 9

    I melted the white chocolate on a flat surface on a foil paper and let it solidify to form a nice round chocolate plate.

  10. 10

    I placed the white chocolate onto the cake then using the dark chocolate formed the dripping sides. I then added chocolate shavings to the wet drip to decorate.

  11. 11

    I then used the remaining dark chocolate to write the name on the white surface.

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Comments (2)

Norikazu Owen Ogawa
Norikazu Owen Ogawa @cook_6710315
Thanks for posting quite a lot of chocolate cake recipes. I see a lot of Kenya authors posting only chocolate cakes. Is chocolate cake kenyan tradition? If you have more variety of cake recipes, please keep posting them. Thanks again for your support as always. Best, Owen

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