Cooking your own cake can become a difficult task for an inexperienced mistress. If you want to gain experience in cooking homemade cakes, experiment with a variety of recipes and cook a delicacy without hassle, then our basic advice on how to bake a cake will come to the rescue.
How to bake a cake "Zebra" at home?
Striped cake "Zebra" looks original and bright in the company even the simplest cream and no frills in the decor, and to achieve the desired clear color boundaries between the cakes is much easier than you might think.
Ingredients:
- flour - 245 g;
- sugar - 155 g;
- baking powder - 5 g;
- cocoa - 35 g;
- eggs - 4 pieces;
- vegetable oil - 235 ml;
- milk - 235 ml.
Preparation
The dry basis of the dough is a mixture of flour and baking powder. Eggs and sugar are beaten separately. Whisking continues smoothly until the mass increases in volume and changes color to a lighter one. Milk and vegetable oil are added to the airy egg mixture. After repeated whipping, the liquids are added portionwise to a dry mixture of ingredients, continuing the kneading. Dividing the finished dough in half, mix the second half with cocoa powder.
Armed with a small glass, measure equal portions of the mixture (approximately half a cup) and alternately pour them into the center of the selected shape. Bake cake for about 40 minutes at 180 degrees.
After cooling, the cakes can be covered with a usual oil cream , the recipe of which we have described earlier, and you can pour melted chocolate.
How to bake a delicious and simple cake?
If you want to save time and reduce the amount of ingredients used, then use this recipe. On the way out, you will get a dense and moist chocolate cake, which resembles Brownie in its texture, which we will cover with cream with chocolate paste.
Ingredients:
For the cake:
- milk - 235 ml;
- chocolate - 410 g;
- honey - 55 ml;
- eggs - 6 pcs .;
- almond flour - 245 g.
For cream:
- Butter - 215 g;
- sugar - 55 g;
- chocolate paste - 55 g;
- cream - 35 ml.
Preparation
Place the chocolate together with honey and milk on a weak fire. With constant stirring, let the pieces of chocolate melt and remove the dishes from the heat. While the chocolate mixture cools, beat the eggs together with almond flour. Add chocolate to the mixture and mix well. Distribute everything in an 18-cm form and bake at 150 degrees for an hour.
When the cake is cooled, cover it with a simple cream of whipped white butter with sugar, chocolate paste and cream. Fresh berries can be an excellent addition.
How to bake a chocolate cake?
If you can not decide the recipe, then always make a choice in favor of the classics - chocolate cake. Our will consist of basic biscuit cakes, smeared cream on the basis of cream cheese.
Ingredients:
For the cake:
- flour - 275 g;
- sugar - 165 g;
- soda - 1/2 st. spoons;
- cocoa - 45 g;
- butter - 115 g;
- kefir - 175 ml;
- egg - 1 piece;
- coffee - 115 ml.
For cream:
- cream cheese - 345 g;
- butter - 115 g;
- powdered sugar - 155 g.
Preparation
Before you bake cakes for a cake, you must by all means pass cocoa and flour through a sieve. For biscuits, this step is incredibly important, since it affects the airiness and softness of the finished cakes.
After the dry components have been sieved, soda is added to them and mixed well.
Separately, beat the butter with sugar and egg. The resulting mixture is alternately poured into the dry ingredients, whilst continuing to beat the dough at a minimum speed. In the very finale, hot coffee is poured into the ready-made dough. The dough is distributed in a pair of oiled forms and baked at 180 for 40 minutes.
The cooled cakes are covered with a cream made of soft butter and sugar powder that has been hammered in with cream cheese.