chocolate cake using chocolate rather than cocoa powder?

[lucysmam]

I wondered about whether you could use actual chocolate to make a chocolate cake? Was thinking for Easter as I know neither my dad or sister would really appreciate chocolate but a nice cake would go down well with both of them & the IL's

If you can make one using chocolate, do you know where would be a good place to find a recipe?

Thank-you

I always do, I have a recipe from a good housekeeping book. I also make the icing with chocolate, melted with butter.

great recipe for chocolate cloud cake in Nigella Lawson. Uses loads of chocolate and eggs and no flour, so it also happens to be great for wheat intolerants. If you can't find another I might type you the recipe after coming home from dinner.

Yes you can just use chocolate. The trick is to use very good quality chocolate that is at least 70% cocoa solids.
Nigella Lawson has some receipes in her How To Be a Domestic Goddess book.

Good housekeeping & Nigella Lawson. Will have a look for those now, thanks

I attempted a recipe made with chocolate the other day and it came out like a brownie! So if you find a recipe that rises nicely and isnt too dense I'd also be interested!

I'll let you know although, brownies

ok, I give up!

will have another look later on & post if I find something Xavielli

chocolate orange cake

Recipe from Nigella Lawson's How to be a domestic goddess

125g unsalted butter
100g dark chocolate broken into pieces
300g good, thin-cut marmalade
150g caster sugar
pinch of salt
2 large eggs, beaten
150g self-raising flour

20cm springform tin, buttered and floured

Preheat the oven to 180C, Gas mark 4.

Put the butter in a heavy-bottomed saucepan and put over a low heat to melt. When it's nearly completely melted stir in the chocolate. Leave for a moment to begin softening then take the pan off the heat and stir with a wooden spoon until the butter and chocolate are smooth and melted. Now add the marmalade, sugar, salt and eggs. Stir with your wooden spoon and when all is pretty much amalgamated, beat in the flour bit by bit. Put into your prepared tin and bake for about 50 minutes or until a cake-tester or skewer comes out clean. Cool in the pan on a rack for 10 minutes before turning out.
(i make an icing for this when its cool from melted chocolate and cream-yum!)

now I'm spoilt for choice! I have a gooey choc cake recipe I was going to make tomorrow but I don't know now!! choc orange

Thank-you

I didn't know you could make chocolate cake without chocolate in it.

Chocolate orange cake sounds delicious. I will try that soon!

How do you do it with cocoa powder?

Look for a Devil's Food Cake recipe - some use chocolate rather than cocoa.

Otherside - you use a standard sponge recipe and substitute some of the flour for cocoa powder, or at least that's what mine says.

Nigella's How to Eat has a fabulous recipe for chocolate cake, which is also really easy.

Cake mix is melted chocolate, butter, eggs and condensed milk, heated together and then poured into flour.

Easy, easy, easy - no creaming/whisking - and always comes out well, and lovely and soft.

Thanks AliBaba. It doesn't sound as wicked as proper chocolate cake

No it isn't - although it has to be filled with cream or similar so the net result is probably just as bad!