Dark Chocolate Cake by Thoa Nguyen - hour 2

Dark Chocolate Cake

Ingredients:

• 2 cups boiling water
• 1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons Baking Soda
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 Cup butter, softened
• 2 1/4 cups white sugar
• 4 eggs
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease 3-9 inch round cake pans. In medium bowl, pour boiling water over cocoa, and whisk until smooth. Let mixture cool. Sift together flour, baking soda, baking powder   and salt. Set aside.
2. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs one at time, then stir in vanilla. Add the flour mixture alternately with the cocoa mixture. Spread batter evenly between the 3 prepared pans.
3. Bake in preheated oven for 25 to 30 minutes. Allow to cool.

Preparation method:

    I used to Muffin Method in this recipe. This recipe features an icing made with cream cheese, cocoa, and cinnamon frosts this dark chocolate cake for an elegant dessert.

    Muffin Method is one of the simpler of the Big Five mixing methods, something every baker should know. Simply put, the Muffin Method is a technique whereby two mixes are created: A mix of wet ingredients (eggs, soft or liquid fat , milk and sugar) and a mix dry ingredients ( flour, leavening, and flavorings like cocoa powder). Once they are prepared and the oven is preheated, the two are combined and stirred together very briefly before the finished batter is panned and baked.

    The advantages of the Muffin Method for making things like muffins are Chiefly tenderness, since so little blending leads very little activated gluten, as well as large pockets of fat which tend to make a crumb, well crumble.

     It was exactly I learned in my Baking class.

Critique:

      Appearance: The Dark Chocolate Cake was pure dark black outside and inside. It's soft. It was had many air bubbles inside

   

     Taste: The Dark Chocolate Cake not really sweet. It was a bit bitter, a bit sweet.

     Texture: The Dark Chocolate Cake was similar as natural like birthday cake. Looks great.

     Aroma: The Dark Chocolate smelled really good. My family loved smelling it. Not sweet, smell just like dark chocolate.

Assessment:

      I would make it again. I might make it on my family's birthday. It could be good. My family loved eating it. I learned need to balance all the material more accurately, have real mixed evenly blended ingredients together. Try to make some!