Chocolate Cake Dessert
Ingredients
For Cake
- All purpose flour 2 cups
- Sugar 1 cup or a little less
- Cocoa powder 1/3 cup
- Salt 1/3 tsp
- Baking Powder 1 + 1/2 tsp
- Baking Soda 1 + 1/2 tsp
- Eggs 2 at room temperature
- Milk 280 ml at room temperature
- Oil 1/4 cup
- Melted Butter 1/4 cup
- Vinegar 1 tbsp
Mousse
- Whipping cream 400 ml cream should be cold
- Chocolate chips 1 cup or you can use chocolate chopped into small pieces
Glaze
- Whipping cream 100 ml
- Chocolate chips 1/2 cup or you can use chocolate chopped into small pieces
- Walnuts
Instructions
- Mousse:
- Melt the chocolate chips by placing it in a microwave for 20 seconds. Take out and mix.
- Whip the cold whipping cream until stiff peaks are formed.
- Add the melted chocolate (should not be too hot) and whisk into the whipped cream.
- Cover and refrigerate.
- Glaze
- Bring the whipping cream to its boiling point but DO NOT LET IT boil.
- Add chocolate and allow to stand for 5 minutes.
- Then mix to make the glaze.
- Cake
- Preheat the oven to 170 *C using lower rod only.
- Add all the ingredients into a mixing bowl.
- Mix using a whisk or an electric mixture until smooth. Add a little more milk if the batter is too thick.
- Cover the base of a spring form pan with parchment paper.
- Pour the mixture in it and bake for 30 minutes or until the toothpick inserted comes out clean.
- Take the cake out of the oven, allow to cool completely in the pan.
- Take out from the pan and cut into slices and arrange in a serving dish.
- Pour hot glaze all over the pieces.
- Top with chocolate mousse and drizzle some glaze and walnuts on top.
- Enjoy!