Chocolate Cake Batter

This chocolate cake is a foolproof 100% every time kind of cake. Follow the recipe to the letter and you will have a guaranteed light, fluffy, moist, and tasty chocolate cake.

Prep time

30 min

Serves

up to 12

Cook time

30 min

THE FACTS
Quick and easy recipe

Great for cakes and cupcakes

Add flavours to enhance

Moist for 4 days

INGREDIENTS

2 cups / 326g plain flour

2 cups / 446g caster sugar

70g cocoa powder

2 tsp / 8g baking powder

1.5 tsp 9g baking soda

1 tsp salt

1 cup 260g full cream milk

110g vegetable oil

2 eggs

2 tsp vanilla extract or bean paste

1 tbsp fresh press coffee or shot of espresso

1 cup boiling water

What makes this recipe even better, you can add different flavourings like some fresh orange juice and rind, and you have a chocolate orange cake. Good for cakes or cupcakes.

You can follow the directions below or follow along with the...

Real time tutorial

7 min

METHOD

1. Add plain flour and cocoa powder into your mixing bowl, followed by the baking powder and soda then your caster sugar. Mix the dry ingredients together.

2. Add wet ingredients, milk, espresso, eggs, vegetable oil, boiling water and your choice of vanilla. Mix for 2 minutes on medium low, pause to scrape the mixing bowl down. Mix for a further 1 - 2 minutes and check there are no further dry ingredients in the bowl.

3. Either pour into cake a lined cake tin/s or patty pans. In the oven at 160°c fan forced on the middle rack for 20 min, skewer to ensure they are cooked all the way though.

See, I told you it was easy.

NOTE: Its better if the milk and eggs are room temp, assists in the ingredients incorporate easier.