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Freshly baked focaccia in a round pan sits next to a well-used oven mitt on a wooden surface. The focaccia is golden brown and ready to be topped with olives, pomodorini, and rosemary.

Super Delicious Basic Chocolate Cake Base

The Bella Vita
Perfect for birthdays, this is an infallible and very easy to prepare chocolate cake base recipe.
5 from 10 votes
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 40 minutes
Course Recipes
Cuisine Italian
Servings 6 portions
Calories 366 kcal

Ingredients
  

  • 150 g of Cake flour
  • 150 ml of Milk
  • 40 g of Cocoa powder
  • 80 g of Butter
  • 16 g of Baking powder
  • 3 Eggs
  • 150 g of Caster sugar
  • 1 Tablespoon of vanilla extract

Instructions
 

  • Preheat the oven to 180°C.
  • Lightly grease a 22cm round baking tray with butter.
  • Melt the butter in a saucepan, and put aside. It's important that the butter's warm when we use it in the next few minutes.
  • Sift flour, cocoa and baking powder all together in a bowl.
    Sifting flour into a metal bowl with a vintage sifter, creating a dusting of white powder. Baking in a bright kitchen, with a plant and cake visible in the background.
  • Whip the eggs together with the caster sugar, until you reach a clear, frothy mixture in a separate bowl.
  • Add the milk and vanilla extract in your mix from step #5.
  • Add the flour, cocoa and yeast to the above mixture, which was previously sieved.
  • And finally, add the butter and continue mixing.
    Close-up of a rich, swirled chocolate mixture being prepared, possibly for a dessert related to Italian cuisine. The texture is smooth with visible lines from mixing.
  • Pour the mix into the cake pan and bake for 30 minutes or until a wooden skewer in the middle is clean.
    Unbaked focaccia dough with olive oil swirls in a round baking pan. A box of free-range eggs sits on a wooden table next to the pan, ready for baking.
  • Freshly baked chocolate cake in a round metal pan. The cake has a slightly cracked surface and a rich, dark brown color, sitting on a wooden table.
  • Let it cool down completely before stuffing with the cream of your choice.

Notes

USE INGREDIENTS AT ROOM TEMPERATURE, ESPECIALLY EGGS.
Eggs at room temperature are softer and emulsify better in the batter, which also helps the cake to rise properly. One trick to quickly bring the eggs to room temperature is to run warm water on them for a minute.
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