Zestful Eats

Got this recipe from Martha Stewart and made it for a friend’s birthday. Its really really nice and dense and chocolaty! Don’t be lazy to cream the butter and sugar well. I used ready made frosting (betty Crocker) and rice sprinkles to frost the cake.

Makes  round cake roughly 2 inches x 8 inches. Preheat oven to 180 degrees celcius.

170g butter
3/4 cup cocoa powder + some extra
3/4 cup flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1 cup sugar (I used castor sugar)
3 large eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract (I didn’t have extract so I used vanilla flavoring and seeds of 1 vanilla pod)
1/2 cup sour cream

1. Butter pan and line with greaseproof paper. Butter it again and coat the pan with cocoa powder.

(step 1) Pan coated with cocoa (Step 2) sifted dry ingredients

2. Sift flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt in a bowl. Set aside.

3. Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Don’t be lazy. Beat in eggs one at a time. Then add in vanilla & beat.

(Step 3) Adding in the vanilla (Step 4) Cake mix

4. Add in the flour mix and sour cream in three batches. Don’t put it all inside terus. Mix well in between batches.

5. Pour into pan, tap pan to remove bubbles. Bake for 30-35 minutes. Check if the cake is done by poking it with a chopstick and if it comes out clean, then its done!

6. Cool in pan for about 10 minutes then take out of pan, peel off the paper and cool it on a wire rack.

7. Frost and decorate!

Left: Cut up cake. Right:Cake decorated with chocolate frosting and hundreds and thousands (I doubled the recipe)