Hello dear community, it is always nice to come back to share with you some of my incursions in the kitchen, this time it was for a family celebration. My dear little husband had a birthday and of course, I made him a delicious chocolate cake, because it is his favorite. He is the chef at home, but obviously it is not the right thing for him to bake his own cake, so this time it is my turn to put on my apron and get to work.

The first thing to do is to have all the ingredients we will use at hand and if we measure them all at once, it is a way to make the preparation process easier. For now, in the image above, you will find only the ingredients of the cake, but later I will show you the ingredients of the chocolate frosting that I also prepared.

Let's start then, normally, once I locate all the ingredients and put them at my fingertips. Once I have everything at my fingertips, the first thing I do is to put the oven to preheat, so that once the mixture is ready, I can immediately put it in the oven. Another thing, which is always a good idea to do at the beginning, is to prepare the mold, for this, we coat the whole inside with a layer of butter and then sprinkle wheat flour.

Now, let's start preparing the cake mixture. In the bowl we are going to place the 150 grams of margarine, followed by the 1 ½ cup of sugar and finally the 2 teaspoons of vanilla. Next, we take the bowl to the mixer and turn it on so that the ingredients begin to integrate, let it beat for a few minutes, until the sugar dissolves and the margarine whitens.

While we let the ingredients, we fear in the mixer to integrate, we will take care of sifting the remaining dry ingredients. In this case, the 2 cups of wheat flour, the ¼ cup of cocoa powder and the tablespoon of baking powder and set aside until it is time to add them to the mixture.

Ok. It is time to add the 4 eggs to the mixture, we know that, because when we see it, we will notice that the yellow tone of the mixture has decreased its intensity, now it looks lighter, besides, it has also increased a little it’s volume. You must keep in mind that, to add the 4 eggs we must do it one at a time, that is to say, we add one and we must wait for it to integrate before adding the next one, do not forget it.

When we finish integrating the 4 eggs into the mixture, we look for the dry ingredients that we have already sifted and set aside, also, we take the opportunity to beat the ¾ cup of milk. In this step we are going to add portions of the dry ingredients, mix it and then add liquid milk and mix it as well. We will continue in this way until we finish adding the rest.

With our cake mixture ready, all that remains is to place it in the mold to bake at 170 °C for approximately 40 minutes. But, remember that the definitive proof that our cake is baked is that when you insert a toothpick it comes out completely clean.

After the necessary time has elapsed, remove the cake from the oven and let it rest to cool before unmolding it.

Once the cake is cooled and we unmold it, we will elaborate the icing with which we will cover it, above in the image you will find the ingredients that we will use to elaborate it and as you can see they are very few, we only need a can of condensed milk, 2 lemons and a large bar of milk chocolate.

To start preparing the glaze, the first thing to do is to melt the chocolate in a double boiler. To do this we boil water in a small saucepan, then in a bowl we chop the chocolate and place the bowl over the pot of boiling water. Stir constantly until the chocolate is completely melted.

Once the chocolate has melted, remove it from the heat, continue stirring and start adding the condensed milk, stirring constantly.

Once the condensed milk is well mixed with the chocolate, it is time to add the 2 lemons. You will see that as the lemon juice is integrated into the mixture, it will become thicker, and its color will change.

The next step is also simple, you only need to cover the unmolded cake with the mixture, of course. In my case, after I covered the whole cake, I sprinkled colored chocolate rain on top. With that the cake was ready to put a topper and the candles to sing birthday to my hubby and of course then taste it. Modesty aside, it was delicious, by the way, hahaha.

Well, I just have to say goodbye, hoping you enjoyed this simple chocolate cake recipe with chocolate frosting. Until next time and God bless you in all the projects you undertake.

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