Hi, foodies in the Hive!
I hope you're all healthy and doing great 😁
I made a nice chocolate bundt cake for my family; also made a simple but delicious and eye catching decoration. Decoration is not my thing, but I find it relaxing anyway if it's easy 🙈 How do you like it?
My family is addicted to chocolate cakes. I made this one to share with them in my father's house.
The batter for a bundt cake is a mystery for some of my friends and relatives and more if it's chocolate.
If you're among those people who have a hard time trying to get their chocolate sponge cakes easily out of the bundt baking pan, you may want to stay some minutes with me and check out this easy recipe.
My father is very enthusiastic about cakes. He doesn't eat them often and even less if they contain sugar; so when he can finally taste a traditional cake, he really enjoys it.
When he was a child, my father had very few opportunities to enjoy sweets and snacks. Life was different; besides, he was born and raised in a rural area where you learned to work at about the same time you learned to talk and walk. So when I arrive at his house with a cake in my hands, he smiles like a child. Of course, he only eats one slice and if it's too late at night, he saves it for the next day.
As for me, I have a slight intolerance to almost anything in a cake, so most of the time I have to be satisfied with just looking at the happy faces of those who devour the cake I have been working on for hours 😐 Everything depends on the alignment of the planets that day.
This cake recipe has three parts:
- chocolate sponge cake
- chocolate fudge
- decorations
Ingredients for the Cake 😋
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 cup melted margarine
1 cup slightly beaten eggs - 2 1/2 cups self-raising wheat flour
- 2/3 cups cocoa powder (unsweetened)
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 tablespoon white vinegar
- 4 teaspoons vanilla essence
Add 1/2 teaspoon salt if the margarine is unsalted.
Let's Make Delicious Chocolate Sponge Cake
Take two bolws out.
Mix sugar, melted margarine, and vanilla essence in one bowl. Just mix it a little. Let it rest so the sugar absorbs the liquids.
While the sugar is absorbing the liquids, sift the flour and cocoa powder in a separate bowl. Mix them dry.
Add the slightly beaten eggs into the wet mixture.
Combine the two mixtures and beat well with a paddle just until the mixture is homogeneous.
Grease well your favorite bundt cake pan. I use margarine only.
I love this mold. It has no festive patterns, but the cake is sober and elegant, even if you don't want to decorate it. This one is 18" wide.
I put margarine generously on it so I don't have to use flour, as I don't like the texture that results from this nor do I like having to cut all the crust out of the cake. I love the crust.
I left some of the cake batter as a base to make the cookies for the decoration.
I baked the cake for 40 minutes at 300 °F. I used my small electric oven, with top and bottom heat.
Let's Make Some Fun Decorations 🖤🍪
I had bought these ones for decoration, but then I thought I should add more personality to the cake by adding some homemade details.
I paid 2.88$ per box of 10 units. I used 8: 4 wafers covered with white chocolate and 4 covered with dark chocolate. Personally, I don't love *St. Moritz*, but I thought these wafers were great and my nieces and nephews loved their flavor and crunchiness. So for this time, there was love.
I used a handful of toasted cashews and a handful of raisins, plus 2 tablespoons of cocoa powder. I mixed all this with half the batter I left from the cake and I also added 1/2 cup of crushed chocolate cookies to add texture without having to add more flour--adding more flour to cookie batter is not a wise thing to do; the cookies turn out chewy and, well, floury.
After mixing this very well with my hands, I pressed it against the table into a heart-shaped cookie cutter.
I made three hearts and some round cookies. The rest of the batter went into a well greased mini baking pan to make a mini cake to get the crumble.
The mini cake and cookies were done in 15 minutes. I baked them at 300 °F.
I crumbled this mini cake with my hands. I really like the look it gives the decorating over the fudge.
Now I had the decorations and the cake.
It was time to make the chocolate fudge.
Ingredients for the Chocolate Fudge 😀
- 1 cup condensed milk (sweetened)
- 1 cup evaporated milk
- 1 cup milk
- 1/3 cups cocoa powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
- 1/2 cup water
- 4 egg yolks
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch (not in the pic; I use Alfonso Rivas
- 1 tablespoon butter
Add more sugar if needed.
Let's Make Delicious Chocolate Fudge!
Mix the milks, coca powder, an vanilla essence in a saucepan. Cook for 5 minutes, stirring constantly over medium-low heat.
Mix the egg yolks, cornstarch, and water and add this mixture into the cooking pot. Continue cooking for another 5 minutes. Then turn off the heat and add the butter. mix well until the mixture loses some of its heat.
Start covering the cake while the fudge is still warm.
What I do to get a thick layer of chocolate fudge is to put layer upon layer. As soon as one layer cools, I put another, and another, and another.
And if you really want to continue following my amateur decorating tips, ha, ha, ha, ha, the next thing to do is to throw handfuls of crumble on the cake, so they stick on the surface.
When the cake has the appearance you want, you can start sticking the cookies.
Put each cookie in its place and put a little pressure on it. They won't move; I swear.
Arrange the wafers in the center hole so that it looks like a crown.
The cake was perfect for me. But my husband came up to me and said, "It lacks color." Ugh! Why, dear Lord?! I thought, what the heck, let's put some color on it.
I'm not very open to criticism when I've been cooking for hours and I'm finally done. You see, I might be an amateur, but I have the soul and the bad humor of a chef who charges you $50 dollars for a cookie, ha, ha, ha, ha. You better not come and bother me when I'm cooking. We witches are to be feared 😁
The cake was soft, moist and delicious. My nieces and nephews were delighted with the wafers and cookies, too; they negotiated and distributed their shares.
Oh , I got compliments on this cake, both on the looks and flavor 😁👍
My father was particularly pleased. I felt happy 🖤
All text and images are my own. I have taken the pictures with my Redmi 9T cell phone. And if any GIFs here, I've used GIPHY for all them.
Thank you so much for your visit :)
The rewards earned on this comment will go directly to the people ( edwing357 ) sharing the post on LeoThreads,LikeTu,dBuzz.https://leofinance.io/threads/edwing357/re-leothreads-q6ckybqa
That's very kind of you, @edwing357 🖤
🤗😘☺️
I wanna say I want some, but it's more like a need. That cake looks incredible!
Then say, "I need some!", ha, ha, ha, ha. Thank you so much, my dear friend 😁 Thank you so much for dropping by and for the motivation 🖤
I need it!
Thank you so much for your consideration and support, @amazingdrinks 😁💕
Me has dejado sin palabras, esto es una obra de arte para mi paladar jajaja, casi me da algo cuando vi la torta, tendré que hacer un brownie de micro ondas para poder dormir jajajaja, me despertaste el apetito chocolatoso
😂😂😂 Mi sobrina más pequeña tiene 5 años y es súper mala boca. Se sentó y se comió un pedazote de torta sin hablar ni respirar. El chocolate tiene la magia infantil que le falta al brócoli 😂
Brownie. ¡Ése mismo es! Te asegura una noche tranquila y sueño feliz...
Gracias por pasar a dejarme tus buenas vibras, mi querido @edwing357 😁💕
Join the foodie fun! We've given you a FOODIE boost. Come check it out at @foodiesunite for the latest community updates. Spread your gastronomic delights on and claim your tokens.
Yum! You have been curated by @edwing357 on behalf of FoodiesUnite.net on #Hive. Thanks for using the #foodie tag. We are a tribe for the Foodie community with a unique approach to content and community and we are here on #Hive.Thank you so much for your consideration and support, @foodiesunite, @edwing357 😁❤️
🤗 feliz día ✨
Que linda cuando cocinas y nos compartes estas recetas mágicas, que no solo es la receta, sino la manera en que la presentas, hablando de tu familia, de cómo preparaste todo y obteniendo fotos/ videos muy agradables. Ja ja yo tampoco estoy muy abierta a las críticas, pero, es que sería imposible criticar esta belleza.
Esto es genial @marlyncabrera, un abrazo inmenso para ti y que sigan disfrutando de esta torta de chocolate.
Aquí está tu pedacito de torta, @marpa querida. Te toca preparar el café. Tendremos una tarde de café en stop motion 😂😂😂
Gracias por la visita y por tus lindas palabras 😁💕 Para mí, son gran motivación.
Thank you so much,@qurator, @ewkaw 🖤 Much appreciated.
It looks amazing. I'm always in the mood for a piece of cake. 😅
Thank you so much, @missdeli 🖤 I am, too. I shouldn't, though 😆
Me neither 😅😅
Love it!
Thank you!
The result is perfect, you spread the butter on the baking sheet very neatly. Usually I always spoil the basting moment!
Great recipe, I want to try it!
I hadn't noticed 😄 Margarine must be my element 🤣
Thank you so much for dropping by and for your nice words, @nurfay 🖤
You're welcome honey, they look delicious!
This cake looks like pure happiness! I love the centre and that you did it in that pan. The shot of the piece at the end makes me want cake for breakfast. I am like you, that I don't consume many sweets, but it is really nice to make someone smile by presenting these kind of treats. This was a great tutorial. I can use your recipe and substitute the eggs for applesauce perhaps.
Your father looks like a wonderful man. I can see it just from the photo.
A beautiful chocolate dream. Best wishes my friend.😊💚
I've made plant based chocolate cakes. Perhaps the best substitute for eggs I've tried is bananas; and although I'm not sure about the proportions right now, I don't think it's a problem; trial and error with bananas and cocoa is often a success.
I remember I made brownies with roasted eggplants and boiled beetroots once instead of eggs. I have to re-think that recipe any time soon.
Thank you so much for taking the time to share a chocolate moment with me, dear @carolynstahl ❤️😌
Oh wow! Eggplant! That is a first for me. You are a food scientist. Amazing.
I'll try a few things, next time I feel like baking a cake. A place I worked at used to use flax goo for all of the baked goods. It worked out good but I want to try the bananas instead. 😊