The best ultra soft chocolate cake recipe: Femme Actuelle Le MAG

Making a delicious, tender and fluffy chocolate cake does require a little practice. To succeed with your recipe, you need to know some effective tips to prevent it from drying out, make sure that it swells correctly, and all this without being heavy on the stomach. Find out how to make a cake that has the texture of a sponge, combined with the sweet scent of a cocoa tree. As a bonus: a great recipe to try absolutely for the afternoon cravings and the end of meals with family or friends. You will love it!

How to prepare a soft cake?

The main challenge when making a cake is not to make it dry. If cooking is an important part, the choice of ingredients also has a role to play. If you want to obtain a cake that is as soft as you want, here are some tips that you can use in developing your recipes. The first is to incorporate yogurt into the rest of the ingredients. Choose a Greek yogurt or cottage cheese over plain yoghurt. Put it in your cake instead of milk to obtain a lighter and more tender dough on arrival. Another effective trick is to cut the flour with a few grams of flour or cornstarch, or ground almonds (2/3 flour, 1/3 of the rest), so that your cake retains a portion of moisture that will not dry out during cooking. Finally, the order in which you mix your ingredients matters! For a soft cake, you must first put the eggs that you will beat with the sugar, add the melted butter, then the flour and lastly the yeast. Always in this order for best results. Little extra: to make your cake swell every time and effortlessly, add edible baking soda to the dough. It is magic !

The best recipe for moist chocolate cake

You can easily choose to vary the pleasures and concoct yourself a chocolate cake by adding bananas, zucchini, pears, and whatever you want. If you feel up to a challenge, also give in for the famous marbled cake, as delicious as it is pretty to look at! In the meantime, here is our great moist chocolate cake recipe to try out urgently.

The ingredients of the recipe

  • 200g flour
  • 150g cane sugar
  • 100g of soft butter
  • 100g dark chocolate
  • 3 eggs
  • 50g almond powder
  • 1 tbsp. tablespoon of yeast
  • 1 pinch of salt

The steps of the recipe

1. Preheat your oven to 180 ° C (th. 6).

2. In a bowl, add the cane sugar and the eggs, then beat until the mixture turns white. Add the butter and whisk again.

3. Melt the chocolate with a little water in the microwave.

4. Pour into the sugar mixture and mix well.

5. Then stir in the flour, baking powder, ground almonds and salt. Mix well to form a homogeneous preparation.

6. Pour into a cake mold and bake for 45 minutes to 1 hour.

Tip: if you want to lighten your cake, you can choose to replace the butter with 95 ml of vegetable oil for a less fatty recipe.

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