Have you been drooling and dreaming over a chocolate cake?

How about a chocolate cake that has dark chocolate icing?

Well, I have the cake for you… and it will definitely give you your chocolate fix. Plus there is a free printable recipe card to download.

Ingredients

• 1 vanilla cake mix
• 1 chocolate cake mix
• 4 eggs (2 eggs per cake mix)
• 2 tablespoons of soft butter or oil for the cake ( 1 tablespoon per cake mix)
• 160ml of milk per cake mix (so times 2)
• Whipping cream
• Dark chocolate for the decorations
• 6 teaspoons of dark chocolate cocoa for the icing
• Soft icing sugar – I used half a small bag of CSR Soft Sugar Icing Mixture

Make sure that the oven is set to 180°C or 356°F

Method

1. Oil or add butter to the cake pans
2. Mix the vanilla cake mix
3. Mix the chocolate cake mix
4. Half the cake mixtures and put a bit in each pan to create the marble effect
5. Cook the cakes for around 30 mins or until brown. If you put in a knife and it comes out clean it is done.
6. Melt the chocolate and pour the melted chocolate on a tray with baking paper. Add the tray to the fridge to set the chocolate.
7. Add the icing sugar, 6 teaspoons of dark chocolate cocoa. Add a little water or lemon or apple juice to make the icing mix well.
8. To make the cheats whipped cream simply add the cream to a blender and choose the chop option. Continue until it looks thick. It will take a couple of minutes, you will be suprised at how quick it is, oh and how simple it is too.
9. When cakes are cooked and cooled add the whipped cream to the middle of the cake, add the top layer of cake.
10. Cover the cake with the dark chocolate icing
11. Break up the chocolate and make sure that it is in different sizes and shapes. Stick it to the top and side of the cake.
12. Now eat your very chocolatey marble cake.

Make sure to download the printable recipe card to make this super yummy very chocolatey cake.

Post Feast Review

I found this cake very easy to make and all elements came together really well. I did cheat a bit with packet cake mixes but when are a busy mummy this does help you out.

One element that I didn’t get 100% right was the whipped cream in the middle of the cake, I added some cream to the top of the cake but should have kept it all for the middle of the cake. After adding the very dark chocolate icing it did add to the marble effect of the cake.

Having the cream helped with the double layer and allowed a different texture and taste with the bitterness of the dark chocolate.

The addition of the broken dark chocolate shards really topped off the cake visually and also from a dark chocolate lover was a fabulous addition (and between hubby and kids the chocolate on top didn’t last long)

Will I make it again? 

Yes, this is one cake that I would make again no questions asked. I would change it up a little bit and maybe add raspberries to the middle of the cake or possibly blueberries.

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This post was originally published on August 26, 2021