When you then halve the sponges, you can drizzle the sugar syrup over the sponges and decorate the cake like normal – it just makes sure the cake keeps moisture! And don’t worry, it doesn’t taste massively sweet.įor the buttercream on my chocolate drip cake, it is a basic American chocolate buttercream frosting – unsalted block butter (the kind wrapped in foil), with icing sugar and cocoa powder! It may be quite sweet for some, so you can use slightly salted butter if you fancy – but I love the sweetness with 100% cocoa powder. However, you can make a simple sugar syrup of 150g caster sugar, and 150ml water – dissolved together in a pan and cooled. If you normally find basic chocolate cakes dry, I often believe this is because they are overbaked. This is optional, but I find decorating frozen sponges so much easier! I then wrap the sponges in clingfilm twice, and foil, and then freeze the cakes for at least one night.
Once baked, I tend to bake on a slightly lower temp for longer for deeper cakes, you leave them to chill fully. Then, use the unsalted butter, sugar, flour and cocoa powder to make up the rest of the sponge! It also makes it easier if you want to be able to use large eggs, or even extra-large – you just want the total weight in the shell. Because it’s chocolate, the cocoa powder stays the same to make it easier!īelow I will put 500g anyway, but as close to 500g is ideal. Say it’s 511g, I then match the rest of the ingredients to this weight. To make a 500g mix I tend to weigh my eggs, in their shells, into a bowl and weigh them to as close to 500g as possible.
I used a 500g cake mixture for this chocolate drip cake as I wanted to make it a four-layer sponge – I usually bake these into two deep 8” tins as they work perfectly for it, and then halve each one to make the four layers! A simple chocolate Victoria sponge recipe is the dream for me!
The cake itself is a basic chocolate cake – this is because I find it much sturdier to work with compared to a chocolate fudge cake sponge. It’s been a while since I did a back to basics post, and I thought this one would be ideal! I have gone into a fair amount of detail on other drip cake posts such as my mini egg drip cake (with a YouTube video to go alongside), but I wanted to write everything I could think of for this one.
#Chocolate drip cake full
I have my white chocolate drip cake on my blog – which is definitely one of my favourites – and I have my two-tier celebration cake recipe – but I wanted to be able to just write a full back to basics post on a normal chocolate drip cake. So it was a while before I realised that I had never actually posted a basic chocolate drip cake on my blog… I feel like this is a bit of an error because it’s something people always ask for, I just never actually posted one! Please see my disclosure for more details!* A four-layer chocolate drip cake with chocolate sponges, chocolate buttercream frosting and more – a part of my back to basics blog series!
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