Cocoa Cake

A simple Cocoa Cake recipe to prepare, the cake is very fluffy and with a strong cocoa flavor. I think it can be used for a chocolate cake, but it's delicious anyway.

Ingredients
Butter
200 g
Cocoa powder
4 tbsp
Sugar
1.5 cups
Egg
4 pieces
Vanilla Extract
1 tbsp
White flour
175 g
Baking powder
1 tbsp
Walnuts
4 tbsp
and raisins, optional
Step by step
Step 1

Put the butter in a pan and melt it over low heat.

Cocoa Cake - Step 1
Step 2

After it melts, pour it into a larger bowl, in which the dough will be prepared.

Add 4 tablespoons of cocoa over the butter, mix well with a whisk.

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Step 3

Separately beat eggs, add sugar and vanilla.

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Step 4

With a mixer, or whisk, beat the eggs and powdered sugar.

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Step 5

Carefully pour the egg mixture over the cocoa butter, stirring constantly.

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Step 6

Mix well with a whisk until the composition is homogeneous.

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Step 7

Add flour and baking powder, raisins and nuts if you like, mix.

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Step 8

Mix well, not to be lumpy.

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Step 9

Grease a baking tray with butter and place baking paper on the bottom.

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Step 10

Pour the dough into the pan and put it in the oven for 40 minutes.

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Step 11

Try the cake with a toothpick, if no dough crumbs stick, it is baked. Let it cool, without taking it out of the oven, just open its door.

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Step 12

To make it beautiful, I recommend the following trick: cut 2 lines of paper and put them over the cake.

You can put them in whatever shape you want.

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Step 13

Sprinkle powdered sugar with a sieve over the cake.

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Step 14

Pick up the papers carefully and here you have a beautiful and original cake :)

Good appetite!

Cocoa Cake - Step 14
Quantity: 2 kg (8-9 servings)
Prep time:
40 min
Difficulty: easy
Ready in: 10 min