Chocolate Cake For Lovers
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Chocolate Cake for Lovers is a sweet treat cake, meant for two.
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Make this Chocolate Cake for Lovers so easily...
....and be sure your Valentine knows it didn't come from a package.
- Serves: Two to four servings
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Total Time: 50 to 55 minutes
Maybe you think the days of making your own cake from scratch are over because of the ease of packaged mixes. But this one is so simple and fail proof, you can't go wrong. Besides, you can tell your Valentine with great pride, "I made this myself."
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Ingredients
- 1 & 1/2 cups unsifted all-purpose flour
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup Cocoa Powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon sallt
- 1 cup water
- 1/4 cup plus 2 Tablespoons vegetable oil
- 1 Tablespoon Vinegar
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
Instructions
Preheat oven at 350 degrees.
Grease and flour a small heart-shaped pan or a 8-inch square pan or a 9-inch round pan.
Combine flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, and salt in large bowl.
Add water, oil, vinegar and vanilla.
Stir with spoon or wire whisk until batter is smooth and ingredients are well blended.
Pour into prepared pan and bake for 35 to 40 minutes or until toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Do not overbake.
Cool on wire rack in pan for 15 minutes then remove cake from pan to cool completely.
Frost and decorate as desired.
Chocolate Cake for Lovers Frosting Suggestion #1
Decorate with Valentine's Candy and food coloring if desired.
If you'd like to make a white, pink or red frosting, this recipe will serve you well. It colors up nicely with food coloring you may purchase at the time you buy your ingredients for this cake. The trick to this is to beat the butter until it is fluffy, before you add the sugar and Vanilla Extract. The milk should be added a few drops at a time, so as not to make the frosting too thin. You may not need to use the entire amount of milk.
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Ingredients
- 1/4 cup softened butter
- !/2 of a package Confectioner's sugar
- 1 to 2 Tablespoons milk
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
Instructions
Beat butter until light and fluffy.
Add Confectioner's Sugar gradually, beating well after each addition.
If frosting becomes too dry add Vanilla extract and continue beating.
If frosting still needs more liquid, add a few drops of milk at a time until you reach the proper consistency.
Chocolate Cake for Lovers Frosting Suggestion #2
- Serves: Frosts a one layer cake
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup softened butter
- 1/2 of a package of Confectioner's Sugar
- 1/4 cup chocolate syrup
- 1/2 broken milk chocolate bar (2 ounces)
- 1 to 2 Tablespoons milk
Instructions
Cream butter and confectioner's sugar in small mixer bowl; blend in syrup. Melt chocolate bar pieces in microwave 10 seconds, stir until smooth and add to butter and sugar mixture in bowl. Stir to blend, add milk as needed a few drops at a time.
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"Oh, if it be to choose
and call thee mine, love,
thou art every day
my Valentine!" -Thomas Hood
Two videos with tips about decorating and writing with a piping bag.
Get creative with your Chocolate Lovers Cake
"Love is a promise,
love is a souvenir,
once given never forgotten,
never let it disappear." -John Lennon
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alwaysjules Feb 15, 2012 @ 1:05 pm | delete
- Congratulations for making it on the DELICIOUS Valentines Recipe board! Well deserved! Thanks for sharing such a beautiful and yummy lens!
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Pastiche
Jan 31, 2012 @ 3:07 pm | delete
- Hubby and I love chocolate cake ... we make it for each other's birthday, our anniversary, Valentine's Day - any reason at all to bake chocolate cake. We have a favorite recipe but I may give this one a try next time it's a baking occasion. Linking to my yummiest chocolate cake lens because you can never have too many chocolate cake recipes, nor can you ever have too much chocolate or love.
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aliciamaggie54
Jan 30, 2012 @ 12:13 pm | delete
- Homemade cake is the best.
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queenofduvetcovers
Jan 29, 2012 @ 9:39 pm | delete
- Love chocolate cake, nice lens! =)
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hamshi5433
Jan 28, 2012 @ 10:14 am | delete
- mi love chocolate cakes!! Delicious recipes.
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