Cake recipe help?

Question

Here is a simple recipe for chocolate cake. How would I adapt this recipe to become a chocolate cake and are there any other improvements to be made?

100g butter
100g caster sugar
100g S.R. flour
Vanilla essences
Pinch of salt
2 med eggs

Oops I meant here is a simple recipe for cake.

Answer 1

take two heaped tbsp of flour out and put two heaped tbsp of cocoa powder in instead. add in chocolate chips as well if u want it is seriously delicious! and if u want to go mega chocolatey buy chocolate frosting to pipe on top when cooled!

Answer 2

Cake Recipe

100g butter
100g caster sugar
100g S.R. flour
Vanilla essences
Pinch of salt
2 med eggs
4 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 cup buttermilk

Icing Recipe
1/2 cup butter
4 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
1/3 cup buttermilk
4 cups confectioners' sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup chopped pecans
1 pinch salt

Answer 3

Improvement, perhaps,
Bake a cake and follow these instructions. The ingredients are enough for baking a similar chocolate cake, baked in a sheet cake pan.

BUTTER CREAM:
150 g melted butter
1 egg
1 hg grated almond paste
2 ½ dl powdered sugar

ICING:
2 -3 hg cooking chocolate
10 g coconut butter

FOR THE BUTTER CREAM:
Mix all ingredients together and spread the buttercream on a cold cake.
Put the cake in the freezer for half an hour.

FOR THE ICING:
Melt chocolate and coconut butter.
Remove cake from freezer.
Pour chocolate over the frozen cake and spread it out.
Cut the cake in pieces while chocolate is soft.

Answer 4

Add in 3 heaped teaspoons of cocoa powder to the flour and sift it together. You don't need to alter anything else in the recipe. Just adding in the cocoa powder alone makes it a chocolate cake.

Answer 5

subtract flour for cocoa eg

100g butter
100g caster sugar
80g S.R. flour
20g cocoa powder
Vanilla essences
Pinch of salt
2 med eggs

remember to add your butter sugar and edd then fold in your flour and coca last as you may need extra and dont let it curdle

Answer 6

just add cocoa powder about 3 or 4 tablespoons

Answer 7

You could add Hersheys cocoa powder....but the recipe for their cake is right on the canister....It's easy and you will not be dissapointed.

Answer 8

add a tablespoon of cocoa powder.
if you go onto www.yummyfood.net, they will have loads of ideas on there

Answer 9

You will need to add some baking powder to make it rise , about one to two teaspoons . plus one quarter cup coco powder.

Answer 10

You will need to add cocoa powder.