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Easy Chocolate Cake
Total time55 min
Prep15 min
Cook40 min
Yield8 servings
DifficultyEasy
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ChefRana Jarkas

Easy Chocolate Cake

Craving a successful chocolate cake coated with a rich chocolate sauce, but you want it to be easy and budget-friendly too? Here is a tried-and-true recipe.

Ingredients

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  • 3 eggs
  • 1 small teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1/2 cup vegetable oil
  • 1/2 cup liquid milk
  • 3 tablespoons yogurt
  • 2 cups flour
  • 3 tablespoons cocoa powder
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • A pinch of salt
  • Chocolate pieces - type as desired
  • Chocolate sauce
  • 1/4 cup heavy cream
  • 2 chocolate bars - type as desired
  • Chocolate shavings for garnish - optional

Method

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  1. Whisk the eggs with the vanilla, then add the sugar and continue whisking until it dissolves completely and the mixture doubles in volume.
  2. Add the oil, liquid milk, and yogurt, then whisk.
  3. Sift the dry ingredients together, then add them gradually to the cake mixture and fold gently by hand with a spoon from top to bottom. Add the chocolate pieces at this stage as well and mix.
  4. Pour the chocolate cake batter into a cake pan greased with butter and dusted with flour.
  5. Bake on the middle rack in a preheated oven at 180 C for 50 minutes, or حسب the strength of your oven.
    Timers: 50 min
  6. Once the cake has cooled to room temperature, melt the chocolate bars with the heavy cream over a bain-marie, then pour the sauce over the cake.
  7. Decorate with chocolate shavings and serve.
  8. This delicious dessert is from our friend and cook at What Are We Cooking Today?
  9. Also from Rana, here is Madlouka in Cups
  10. Try Chocolate Ganache Tart from Rana as well

Recipe tags

DessertsInternationalVegetarianVeganDairy freeNut freeEgg freeEasyBalanced time

Notes and serving ideas

  • Madlouka in Cups
  • Chocolate Ganache Tart

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