How to bake a chocolate cake

I missed the hip hop dance workshop yesterday because I crept out of my bed late. At around one in the afternoon, I asked my brother to come with me in order to find out if I could still register despite my unpardonable late arrival. When we came there however, I was surprised to find out that there were only a few who kept pumping with the music. Unlike the hip hop workshop last month (which I also missed because I didn't have money for luxuries that time), the event yesterday was a failure. I suppose it was because the sky kept pouring and the wind, howling, and the dancers opted to shut themselves inside their soft cozy bed with their comforters wrapped around their limbs. I was among those who hid inside my room while the torrents of rain raped the streets. In consequence, I missed the workshop.

Because I wanted to amuse myself on a rainy Saturday, after peeping through the workshop, I hastily went to my favorite bookshop and played my favorite game, Book Hunting! :D For the first time, I bought something which was extremely pleasurable to my eye and my neural circuits for the meager price of 20 Php! After that, I flew straight to buy the ingredients so I could bake chocolate cake and munchkins! The other week, I promised myself that I would bake chocolate cake again because the first one was imperfect--it was imperfect simply because I could not squeeze pleasure from my taste buds. I also made munchkins (again) because my sister asked me to. Because I love her and I wanted to make her happy, I yielded to her simple request!









At last! At last! I baked the first palatable chocolate cake in my life. Now, I am finally licensed to speak about what I have learned. My mom's presence was also contributory to my success. The other week, she was in Manila. Yesterday, she was in Cebu; but she came just in time to supervise the chemistry experiment which I conducted in our humble kitchen.

Chocolate cake Ingredients:

Sift:
2 cups all purpose flour
1 cup chocolate (Hershey's chocolate preferably)
2 tablespoons baking soda
2 tablespoons baking powder

Add:
1 bar butter (anchor)
2 1/2 cup white sugar
4 whole eggs
2 cups cold fresh milk

Chocolate cake icing:
1 can evaporated milk
1/2 cup chocolate
1/8 butter
5 tablespoons cornstarch
1/4 cup water
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup white sugar
Here's a succinct overview on how to bake a palatable chocolate cake:
(1) Mix and sift all the solids.
(2) Use another bowl. Let the butter stand for a couple of minutes. Once soft, add the sugar. Mix well. Add the eggs one by one. Mix again.
(3) Add milk alternately with the solid mixture.
(4) Mix properly. Make sure you stir it in one direction so as to create more (air) bubbles.
(5) Pour in the pan and bake for 30-40 minutes at 150-200 C.
(6) While baking, make the icing. Mix the icing ingredients in another bowl and cook it with constant stirring for five minutes.

Now you're done! By the way, preheating the oven is not necessary when making chocolate cake. According to my mom, it is not as "sensitive" as the chiffon cake, so no need. Do not preheat the oven anymore to save energy! You can also play around with the icing, Yesterday, I reduced the sugar because I prefer bittersweet chocolates. I really really really love dark chocolates! Unfortunately, most of them prefer the usual sweet sweet chocolates. :( Next time, I will make two bowls of icing: one for me and one for my family. Nevertheless, I was so pleased everyone loved my cake! Weeee!!! I really really really love baking! :D