Chocolate cake recipe for 4 - 8 people, takes only 25 mins; recipe has butter, baking powder, cocoa powder, self-raising flour, golden caster sugar, egg, milk, mascarpone, golden caster sugar, coffee and dark chocolate.
Chococcino cake
Course: Chocolate cake
Servings
4 - 8
servings
Prep time
15 mins
Ingredients
- Butter: 200g soft, butter, plus extra for greasing
- Baking Powder: 1 tsp baking powder
- Cocoa Powder: 85g good-quality cocoa powder, such as Cafedirect or Green & Black's
- Self Raising Flour: 140g self-raising flour
- Golden Caster Sugar: 200g golden caster sugar
- Egg: 4 eggs
- Milk: 2 tbsp milk
- Mascarpone: 2 x 250g tubs mascarpone
- Coffee: 4 tbsp very strong coffee (see tip below)
- Dark Chocolate: 50g dark chocolate, for grating
Directions
- Heat the oven, line the tins and make the sponge as described in the 'goes well with' recipe, sifting the cocoa powder with the flour and baking powder.
- For the filling, beat the mascarpone and sugar together, then beat in the coffee. Use half the mix to sandwich the cakes and spread the other half over the top, swirling with the back of a spoon to make pointy curls. Finely grate the chocolate over the top, then serve.
