Recipe: Perfect Best chocolate cake

Best chocolate cake.

You can cook Best chocolate cake using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Best chocolate cake

1. It's 2 cup of all-purpose flour.
2. Prepare 2 cup of sugar.
3. It's 1/2 tsp of baking powder.
4. It's 4 oz of unsweet chocolate.
5. You need 2 of eggs.
6. It's 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
7. You need 1 tsp of salt.
8. Prepare 1/2 cup of butter.
9. It's 3/4 cup of H2O.
10. Prepare 3/4 cup of milk.
11. You need 1 tsp of baking soda.
12. It's 1 of Opt: You can add Raspberries, Maraschino cherries or other fruit, but you must add 1 - 2 cups more of flour due to the extra juice from the fruit.

Best chocolate cake step by step

1. Melt & cool the chocolate & butter..
2. Mix all ingredients in a bowl..
3. Pour into greased pan, bake at 350° for 40 to 45 minutes. Stick a toothpick into the center, if it comes out clean then it is done..
4. Remove carefully onto cooling racks and slow to cool. Place a small dap of you favorite frosting onto your cake plate, place your 1st layer onto the plate and place a generous layer of frosting on top. Then place the top layer on next and frost the entire cake. At this point if you added fruit to your cake you should have reserved some to decorate the top layer with as the photo shows..
5. The frosting for this particular cake was a marshmallow fluff frosting, and my choice of fruit was raspberry. The frosting recipes in my profile is the one I used..