Simple Ingredients To Make this Fudge Cake!
Dark chocolate – You want to make sure you’re using cooking chocolate for this recipe. Both in the batter and frosting. You don’t want to use regular chocolate that’s for eating.
Unsalted butter – I used unsalted but if you use salted butter just skip adding the salt.
Vegetable oil – alternatively you can use sunflower oil.
Vanilla Extract – Always use good quality vanilla extract when baking, it makes a huge difference. I have a great recipe here for it if you’d like to try your own!
Caster sugar – also known as superfine sugar.
Eggs – I used large eggs.
Cocoa powder – You want to use unsweetened cocoa powder here as it gives the cake a deep chocolate flavor.
All-purpose flour -also known as plain flour. No need for cake flour in this recipe.
Baking powder – this helps give the cake it’s light and airy texture.
Instant coffee powder – this helps elevate the chocolate flavor and is completely optional.
Boiling water – the boiling water in this recipe helps elevate the chocolate flavor!
-How to make the fudgiest chocolate cake ever!
Melt the chocolate and butter together. I did it in a double boiler but you can do it in a microwave safe bowl too. Once it’s melted, let it cool as close to room temperature as you can. About 10-15 minutes.
Add the eggs and sugar and mix in using a whisk.
Add the dry ingredients and mix until they’re not showing. Make sure you don’t overmix. Only mix until no dry ingredient are showing.
Add the boiling water and mix. It’s a really thin batter! Like ridiculously thin, totally normal!
Splitting the chocolate cake batter between two cake tins before baking
Split it amongst the two 20cm / 8-inch cake tins and bake!
Loosening the baked cake from the cake tin before releasing to cool on a cooling rack.
Trimming the top of the chocolate cake to make it level on top
You’ll want to carefully run a knife around the edge of the cake to loosen it before turning over onto a cooling rack to cool down completely.
Use a serrated knife or cake leveler to trim the top and level it off. This is optional, but it will give you neat looking layers.