How to make a chocolate cake
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This document provides instructions for making a chocolate cake. It outlines important considerations before baking such as the occasion, number of people, and ingredients needed or not needed in the cake. It then lists the steps and materials required, including mixing ingredients like self-raising flour, cocoa powder, brown sugar, treacle, oil, vanilla, milk, water and eggs. The instructions specify pre-heating the oven, mixing ingredients based on cake size, baking at 350-150 degrees F for at least 45 minutes while continuously checking, cooling for 15 minutes before decorating with icing sugar.
How to make a chocolate cake
- 2. WHAT TO UNDERSTAND BEFORE STARTING TO BAKE 1. What’s the occasion 2. For how many people 3. Size of a cake 4. Age group 5. What is needed/not needed in the cake 6. When is the cake needed
- 3. STEPS NEEDED TO BAKE A CAKE 1. Materials needed 2. Ingredients needed 3. Mixing the ingredients 4. Baking a cake 5. Checking 6. Done baking
- 4. MATERIALS/EQUIPMENTS NEEDED 1. Pan (For pouring the mixture from the bowls & baking it.) 2. Wooden spoon (For stir the mixture) 3. Table spoon (To measure the ingredients) 4. Bowl (For mixing purposes) 5. Toothpick (for testing whether the cake is done baked or not (You just insert in into Centre so that by time you check it finding it coming out clean then you know that you cake is done)
- 5. GREDIENTS • Self raising flour • Use a tablespoons of cocoa powder & baking powder • Brown sugar • Dessertspoon of black treacle (un-crystallised syrup) • Sunflower oil • Vanilla • Fresh milk & Water • Eggs (To bake a good cake make sure your ingredients Measurements are accurately) This must always reminds you of how big or small is your cake.
- 6. INGREDIENTS
- 7. PRE-HEAT THE OVEN This is making sure that the heat circulates in the oven so that by the time you start baking every side of your cake gets heat equally.
- 8. MIX THE INGREDIENTS Remember the size of the cake to avoid over mixing the ingredients Put them together in a bowl and mix (Determined by the size of the cake) mix them until it turns to brown and creamy
- 9. BAKING THE CAKE Put the pan inside the stove of 350 - 150 degrees Bake it for atleast 45 minutes, then continuously check the cake after each and every 15 minutes (Remember that checking your cake is by the use of toothpick) When is done baked, Take it out of a pan Cool the cake for at least 15 minutes Now you can decorate you cake by using (Icing sugar)
- 10. FROSTING CHOCOLATE CAKE Now this is the frosting cake.
Editor's Notes
- #3: Why is the cake need to be made (Birthday Party, Anniversary & Marriage etc) How many people will be invited for this occasion How big or small the cake must be (Determined by the number of people invited) Is it for Adult people or children What might be the allergic ingredients that are not needed/What cake flavor is needed. Request a specific date and time for the cake to be done (This is whereby you’ll be having a full understanding of the type of a cake you are making)
- #4: Always remember that in order to do anything perfectly there must be steps to follow: Material things used to bake Make sure that after understanding everything needed/not you start collecting you ingredients. Prepare the stove (preheat it) which you going to use for baking While the stove is warming-up then get busy mixing the ingredients. Then bake the cake Checking the cake by the use of the toothpick Now that you are done, it means that the cake is ready