CAAKE? BAKE CAKE.

Alright, chocolate cake time! And yay it’s my first baking post! It’s a plain chocolate cake with frosting.

You’ll need:

1 ½ cps flour

3 squares of semi-sweet baking chocolate

Water

1 ½ tsp baking powder

1 tsp baking soda

½ tsp salt

1 tbs cocoa powder

1 tsp cinnamon

1 cp sugar

2/3 cp butter

3 eggs

1.      Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Flour, wax paper, and butter up said wax paper like in the photo. Two 9-in pans.

2.   Melt three squares baking chocolate in ½ cp of water. Put the microwave on for about 10 seconds before taking it out, stirring, and repeating until you have a liquid-y chocolate sauce. Set aside.

3.      Combine 1 ½ cps flour, 1 ½ tsp baking powder, 1 tsp baking soda, and ½ tsp salt. Set aside for a minute.

4.      Combine 1 cp sugar and 2/3 cp butter and beat for a minute. Add the 3 eggs one at a time, beating in slowly.

5.      Then, alternate between pouring the chocolate sauce and the flour mixture. It will change colours every time you do so, and it will be cool.

6.      Bake for 30 - 40 minutes. Then take it out and let it cool before adding the frosting.

Okay, so about that frosting…Yes, it will also be homemade. Because homemade wins!

You’ll need:

½ cp confectionaries’ sugar

¼ cp light brown sugar

¼ cp white sugar

3 tbs orange juice

1.      Cream butter.

2.      Slowly add the sugars. Pour a little orange juice now and again. Don’t pour it too fast or you’ll mess up the consistency. Like I did =D

3.      That’s it, really. Mine turned out pretty liquid-y, but then I added too much orange juice. Don’t do that and you’ll be fine. If you do anyways, keep adding white sugar until the consistency improves.

When your cake has cooled, transfer one cake to serving plate. Spread frosting on it. Place second cake on top. Frost the whole thing now. I also made some "nice" designs using some store-bought frosting.

Now you’ve got yourself a delicious cake. Enjoy!