Chocolate Milk Cake
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Ingredients
Cake:
- 6 eggs
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1.5 cup all-purpose flour
- 4 tablespoons cocoa
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 8 tablespoons warm water
- 2.5 cups chocolate milk
Chocolate cream:
- 6 eggs (separated)
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1 cup of butter (softened)
- 1 cup of heavy whipping cream for additional topping on cake (optional)
Instructions
Preheat oven to 360F.
- Whisk your eggs and then add sugar and continue mixing until fluffy.
- Sift flour, cocoa and baking powder together.
- Add water to the egg mixture and then turn off mixer.
- Add your flour mixture and mix with a whisk until all are combined.
- Spread on to a 13×9 baking pan and bake for 20 minutes.
- Cool a bit and then pour your chocolate milk over the baked cake. Leave to cool completely.
Chocolate cream:
- Using a double broiler, cook egg yolks with sugar.
- Add chocolate chips and mix until melted. Remove from stove to cool.
- In a bowl, mix your softened butter and add the chocolate mixture, spoon by spoon, mixing well after each addition.
- In another bowl mix egg whites with powder sugar.
- Fold this into the chocolate mixture. This is your chocolate cream.
- Spread the chocolate cream over your cake.
- Microwave chocolate chips with 4 tablespoons of oil and mix until chips are melted.
- Pour over the cake. Leave to cool.
- Once cooled, cut into squares.
- For additional decoration mix 1 cup of whipping cream with 2 tablespoons of powder sugar and pipe onto each square. Sprinkle with cocoa for taste.