How To Bake A Chocolate Cake

The mention of chocolate cake brings water in everyone's mouth. This
article will help you bake a chocolate cake on your own. Here are easy
and simple steps to bale a chocolate cake.

Ingredients
Dry
Ingredients:
-    1 cup Hershey's cocoa
-    2 ½ cups brown sugar
-  
 2 teaspoons baking soda
-    2 ¾ cups sifted all purpose flour
-  
 ½ teaspoon salt
Wet Ingredients:
-    4 eggs
-    1 cup
softened butter
-    2 cups boiling water
-    1 ½ teaspoon
vanilla
Icing:
-    1/4 cup milk
-    1/4 cup baking cocoa
-  
 2 cups powdered icing sugar
-    1/2 cup or a stick of unsalted
butter
-    1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Procedure
Step 1:
First,
pre-heat the oven to a temperature of 177 degrees Celsius or 350
degrees Fahrenheit.

Step 2:
Grease two round layer pans of
nine inch and set aside.

Step 3:
Mix the cup of Hershey's
cocoa with 2 cups of boiling water until it becomes smooth and let it
cool.

Step 4:
Mix flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt
in a plastic bowl.

Step 5:
Cream the butter slowly. When the
butter gets softened and starts to cream, slowly add sugar and keep
creaming the butter until it appears fluffy and light.

Step 6:Now, eggs have to be added one at a time when the butter is done and
it has to be slowly mixed. Then vanilla is to be added.

Step 7:
Add
cocoa mixture fourths to the butter. Then add the mixture of dry
ingredients. Keep adding in alternates until the last mixture which
should be the dry ingredients.

Step 8:
The batter is to be
now placed in the pans to half or less the depth of the pan.

Step
9:
It has to be baked in a temperature of 350 degrees Fahrenheit
for nearly 25 to 30 minutes, check if is baked completely. It can be
done with a toothpick pierced into the center of the cake. If it comes
out clean then it means the cake is already baked.

Step 10:
Now,
take out the pans from the oven and let them cool for ten minutes on a
wire rack.

Icing Procedure
Step 1:
First, place the sugar
in the bowl and then slowly add other ingredients.

Step 2:
Slow
mixer speed will keep the sugar in the bowl. Slowly increase the speed.

Step
3:
If the frosting looks very thick, then milk can be added slowly
to make it thinner. Thick frosting will be difficult to apply on the
cake.

Step 4:
Use a spatula to top the cake with the icing.
It can also be directly piped on.