How to Bake Death by Chocolate Cake

Serves: 12

Preparation time: 30 mins

Cooking time: 1 hour

Ingredients needed to make Death by Chocolate Cake:

For the cake:

• 225 gm dark semisweet chocolate
• 4 eggs
• 4 tbsp sour cream
• 4 heaped tbsp all purpose flour
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 cup sugar
• 4 tbsp cocoa powder
• 1 ½ tsp baking powder
• 140 gm unsalted butter, softened

For the frosting:

• 260 gm semi-sweet chocolate
• 2/3 cup whipping cream

Cooking instructions for Death by Chocolate Cake:

• Warm up your oven to 350 degrees F.
• Spread a grease-proof paper across a 25 cm wide cake pan and set aside.
• Break the chocolate into rough chunks and toss it into the upper bowl of a double boiler.
• Heat over moderate flame until it melts.
• Meanwhile, crack the eggs in a bowl, attached to a stand mixer and empty the cup of sugar into it.
• Sprinkle the flour, baking as well as cocoa powder and vanilla extract into it.
• Beat them at moderate speed until well combined into a uniform mixture, free of lumps and drizzle the melted chocolate into it gradually.
• Add the softened butter into it, followed by the sour cream and fold them all together until they blend into a smooth batter.
• Tip the mixture into the prepared cake pan and bake in the oven at preheated temperature for about 50 minutes or until the cake is baked through.
• Remove from oven and allow the cake to rest until the temperature cools down to room temperature.
• Place it in a fridge to chill for about half an hour and remove the cake from the pan onto a cake plate.
• Slice off the rough edges of the cake as well as the crust and cut it horizontally into two equal layers.
• To make the frosting, pour the whipping cream into a clean saucepan and heat it over moderate heat until warmed through.
• Fold in the chocolate chunks until the latter melts and blends into the cream to forma smooth mixture.
• Turn off the heat and set aside until the frosting mixture cools down and turns thicker.
• Spread 1/3 of it over the bottom layer of the cake and place the top layer over it.
• Smother the surface of this top layer with another 1/3 of the frosting and smooth out its surface with a spatula.
• Use rest of the frosting to coat the sides of the cake and refrigerate until the frosting is set.
• Remove from the fridge and set aside until the cake reaches room temperature.
• Slice and serve.

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