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Recipe: Chocolate Pound Cake

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I always ask my husband about which pic to choose as featured image of blog. He gives me his opinion usually from a very different perspective.

He chose this picture for this blog. And his reason is that this picture look like it’s snowing.

I was like: WHAT???

Anyway, I still followed his advice.

If you always do baking at home and search baking recipes on YouTube. I bet you know Stephanie Jaworski from Joy Of Baking. She gives so many great recipes and demonstrations, which are very easy and hardly to fail. I really like her videos. And I tried some of her recipes, they turned out really great.

I followed her instructions about this Chocolate pound cake, except I reduced sugar and I didn’t do the glaze at the end.

Her video demonstration is here:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gI8ShUTkJf8

If you don’t have time for video, I can show you the steps:

Preheat oven to 180 degree C.

1. Dissolve 25g cocoa powder in 60 ml very hot boiling water. Set aside to cool down.

2. Prepare dry ingredients: 180g flour, 1 tsp baking powder, 1/2 tsp salt. Mix them well.

3. Cream 225g butter with 200g white sugar (in video, she says 250g. I reduced sugar to keep it less sweet) till light. Add in 1 tsp vanilla extract. And 4 eggs one by one.

4. Add in cocoa water mixture. Stir well.

5. Add in 1/2 dry ingredients and 2 tablespoon milk. Mix well. Then add the rest dry ingredients.

6. Patter in baking pan. Bake for about 60 mins.

https://flic.kr/p/Q5d3uA

When it’s 50mins, I checked with toothpick, it didn’t come out very clean, so I baked for another 10 mins. I didn’t make the glaze and just dust icing sugar instead. Yeah, that’s why my husband related it to snowing.

See? Stephanie’s instruction is always simple and clear to catch up with.

My husband loves the cake.

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Chocolate Banana Cupcake

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I got this recipe from

Ingredients:

1 cup flour

3/4 cup sugar

1/3 cup cocoa powder

3/4 tsp baking soda

3/4 tsp baking powder

1/4 tsp salt

2 small mashed bananas

1 egg

1/2 cup water

1/4 cup canola oil

1/4 cup milk

3/4 tsp vanilla

1. Preheat oven to 180 degree C.

2. Mix all the dry ingredients (flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder, salt) in a big bowl.

3. In another bowl, mash 2 small bananas with a fork. It’s ok if there’s still lumps. Beat in 1 egg. Stir well.

4. Pour in water, canola oil, milk and vanilla. Mix well.

5. Pour wet ingredients mixture into dry ingredients. Mix well.

6. Pour batter into muffin pan. Bake for 20 mins. Test with a toothpick. If toothpick comes out clean, then they are done.

Super moist and soft. Banana lumps turn to be creamy in the middle.

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Cocoa Chocolate Cake

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Last night, I saw a picture of chocolate cake online. And I really really wanted to have a piece of it. So I decided to make my own chocolate cake by myself. Remember my husband bought a pack of Starbucks cocoa before? There’s still some left. So I’m gonna use it to make my cocoa chocolate cake.

I referred to the recipe:

http://www.recipe4living.com/recipes/satin_moist_chocolate_cake.htm?format=print

The first time I saw this recipe, I was wondering is it true that boiling water is required in it? I was not so sure about it. But after I tried it, I realized how great this recipe is.

Ingredients:

1 cup sugar ( cocoa powder I used from Starbucks already contained sugar. So I cut off the sugar in original recipe)

1 3/4 cup flour

3/4 cup cocoa powder

1 1/2 tsp baking soda

1 tsp salt

2 eggs

1 cup milk

1/2 cup canola oil (original recipe said vegetable oil)

2 tsp vanilla

1 cup boiling water

1. Preheat oven to 175 degree C.

2. In a big bowl, mix sugar, flour and other 4 dry ingredients.

4. Add in eggs, milk, oil & vanilla.

4. Add in boiling water. Stir well till smooth.

5. Pour batter into greased baking pan. Bake for 30-35 mins.

You can add frosting you like. I like this cake very much. Soft and moist.

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White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies

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The original recipe:

http://naturallyella.com/2010/02/08/white-chocolate-cranberry-cookies-and-a-great-weekend/

I changed it a bit.

Butter 170g

1 cup dark brown sugar ( you can also use light brown sugar)

1/4 cup white sugar

1/4 tsp vanilla

3/4 tsp baking soda

1/4 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

1 egg

2 1/4 cup flour

2 cup white chocolate

1 cup dried cranberries

1. Preheat oven to 190 degree C.

2. Cream butter with brown sugar & white sugar till light and fluffy.

3. Add in vanilla, baking powder, salt, baking powder and egg one after another.

4. Add in flour. Mix till just combine.

5. Fold in white chocolate chips and dried cranberries.

6. Place small dough balls on baking tray and bake for 12 mins.

Cookies are soft and white chocolate melted. Actually, I already reduced sugar. But these cookies are still a little too sweet for me. So if you don’t want them to be very sweet, you can also use less sugar.

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Simple Cocoa Brownie

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Original recipe:

http://www.theslowroasteditalian.com/2013/05/lazy-day-brownies.html

Butter 120g

Sugar 110g ( I reduced sugar, because I used Starbucks cocoa, which contains sugar)

Starbucks cocoa powder 55g

1/2 tsp vanilla

2 eggs

Flour 70 g

1/4 tsp baking powder

1/4 tsp salt

Almond ( optional)

Preheat oven to 180 degree C.

1. Melt butter in a bowl simmering in hot water.

2. Remove butter from heat. Add sugar, cocoa, vanilla and eggs alternatively. Add new ingredient after blend well.

3. Add flour, baking powder and salt. Mix till just combine.

4. Pour batter into baking pan. Spread almond on surface.

5. Bake for 20 mins. Check with a toothpick.

Cool down and cut into small pieces.

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Cocoa Brownie

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One day, my husband chose a pack of Starbucks cocoa when we bought groceries in a supermarket. He was super excited because he kept thinking about a warm and yummy cup of cocoa. He immediately made himself a cup of hot cocoa when we reached home. Yet….he found it’s not as yummy as he thought. He always does things like that. At first he’s very excited and can’t wait to buy something but finds it’s not as good as he thought. =_=||

My principle is no wasting food in my kitchen. So I decided to make cocoa into brownies. And my husband is happy because he will feel less guilty in buying something he doesn’t like.

Oh. I found the recipe here:

best cocoa brownies


Ingredients:

Butter 140g

Sugar 250g ( if you want it to be less sweet, you can reduce the sugar)

Cocoa powder 65g

Salt 1/4 tsp

Vanilla extract 1/2 tsp

Eggs 2

Flour 65g
Preheat oven to 160 degree C.

1. Combine butter, sugar, cocoa powder & salt in a bowl. Place the bowl in simmering water. Stir till smooth.

2. Set aside to cool down.

3. Add in vanilla and beat in eggs. Mix them well.

4. Add in flour and mix till just combined.

5. Pour batter into baking pan.

6. Bake for 20-25 mins. ( because I used my round shaped baking pan and it’s smaller than the size in original recipe. So it took me longer to get done, about 30-35 mins.)


Very moist and yummy. I love it.

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Easy Chocolate Cake

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I followed this recipe:

http://www.food.com/recipe/sue-bs-chocolate-cake-31804?photo=3558
Ingredients:

3/4 cup cocoa powder

3/4 cup boiling water

1 cup buttermilk

1 cup canola oil

4 large eggs

1 tsp vanilla

2 cup sugar

2 cups flour

1/2 tsp salt

2 tsp baking soda
1. Mix cocoa powder with boiling water.

2. Mix buttermilk, oil, eggs and vanilla.

3. Mix sugar, flour, salt and baking soda.

4. Add dry ingredients into buttermilk mixture.

5. Add cocoa mixture into batter.

6. Pour into baking pan.

7. Preheat oven to 180 degree C and bake for 30 mins.
It’s really an easy cake to bake. Yet, it’s very moist and delicious.


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Cranberry White Chocolate Chip Cookies

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Ingredients:

Sugar 75 g

Brown sugar 25g

Margarine 120g

Egg 1

Vanilla 1/4 tsp

Cinnamon 1/4 tsp

Baking soda 1/4 tsp

Salt 1 pinch

Flour 70g

Oats 1 cup

Dried cranberry 1/4 cup

White chocolate chips 60g ( or as much as you like)

1. Cream butter with sugar & brown sugar.

2. Beat in egg and vanilla.

3. Add in cinnamon, baking soda, salt and flour.

4. Fold in oats, dried cranberries, and white chocolate chips. Press a spoonful better to the baking pan.


5. Preheat oven to 190 degree C. Bake for 10-12 mins.

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Chocolate Oat Square

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Original recipe:

http://www.food.com/recipe/chocolate-oat-square-extravaganza-263499

I changed it a bit.

Ingredients:

Butter 80g

Brown sugar 120g

Egg 1

Vanilla 1/4 tsp

Oats 1 cup

Flour 100 g

Salt 1/4 tsp

Baking soda 1/4 tsp

Filling:

1/3 can sweetened condensed milk, around 100g

Chocolate chips 1 cup

Butter 1 tsp

Salt 1/4 tsp

Chopped walnuts 1/3 cup

Vanilla 1/4 tsp
1. Cream brown butter and  brown sugar till light and fluffy.

2. Beat in egg and vanilla.

3. Combine oats, flour, salt, and baking soda. Stir into butter mixture.

4. Press 2/3 batter into pan as base.

Filling part:

1. In a saucepan, melt butter, chocolate, with sweetened milk and salt. Stir evenly.

2. Turn off the stove. Stir in walnuts and vanilla.

3. Spread filling over the Oat base in the baking pan.

4. Sprinkle the rest 1/3 Oat batter over the filling.

5. Preheat oven to 180 degree C and bake for 25mins.

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Easy Chocolate Lava

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Part A:

Butter around 25g

Chocolate 40g

Heat butter and chocolate in a bowl which is in hot water.

Keep stirring till they melt.

Remove them from hot water to get cool.
   

Part B

Whip an egg with around 15g sugar till the color becomes light.   
1. Pour Part B into Part A. Do make sure the chocolate is cool already.

2. Put around 15g flour into the mixture. Stir evenly. Then put the bowl into fridge for 30 minutes.

3. Preheat oven with 200 degree. Brush butter onto the inner wall of baking bowl.

4. Pour the chocolate mixture into baking bowl.

Put into oven for ten minutes.

When there are some small cracks on the surface of cake, the cake can be removed from the oven.


   

If you like, you can spread some icing sugar.

Try to scoop it with a small spoon.


And you will be surprised!