Q&A for How to Make a Simple Chocolate Cake

You can make your simple chocolate cake recipe quite tasty by using quality ingredients. Use the top branded chocolate or cocoa powder since the better the ingredients, the more flavored your cake is going to be!

Your cake will become too greasy and taste disgusting. To avoid this, put the oil in first, and if you pour too much, just dump some of it back into the bottle using a funnel.

Vegetable oil and canola oil are both common options for baking because of their neutral flavor. Be careful with more flavorful oils like coconut oil, olive oil, or sunflower oil, because they can overpower the other flavors in your recipe.

No, you don't need to add baking powder. Self-rising flours already have it.

You can use 1/4 cup of unsweetened applesauce to replace one egg.

Usually any medium to large size egg is fine. If the eggs are extremely small, use the double the amount the recipe calls for.

You should use plain white sugar for the first recipe, caster sugar for the second.

1 kilogram of cocoa powder costs about $2 to $3, you can find it almost anywhere, Amazon, Walmart, etc.

Yes. I use sunflower oil or refined coconut oil in all my baking. As long as it isn't virgin or extra virgin it won't change the flavor.

It is the solid powder of the cocoa bean after the cocoa butter has been taken out.

Self-rising flour is flour with baking powder added to it. It's common in some countries but not in others. If you don't have access to self-rising flour, you can make your own .

Yes, it will just be a little more difficult, depending on the thickness of the batter.

You could start over, or you could go with it and see how the finished product tastes.

You can use normal flour, just add 1 1/2 tsp baking powder and 1/2 tsp salt per cup of flour used.

The granules of granulated sugar are pulverized until super small. This makes for a smoother sugar that melts into baked goods with greater ease. It is also known as caster sugar in some countries.

You can use a stove. Boil water in a steamer and keep the batter in a pan and place the pan on top of the steamer. Wait for 10 minutes or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean.

Consult Make Chocolate Chip Cookies .

If you don't use baking powder, you'll need to use self-raising flour. If you don't use any kind of raising agent, then your cake will be completely flat, like a biscuit (cookie).

One is flavorful with distinct flavors and another is just chocolate alone. For the first recipe, it has self rising flour (self raising flour), which is basically cheap yeast. And the other is just plain flour.

Yes but vanilla will tend to be a softer flavor that works better. Butterscotch will have a more distinctive caramel taste than the chocolate flavor and it will definitely be stronger than the chocolate. But experimenting is good.

You can still stir using a whisk but you will need to stir for longer until all the ingredients are fully mixed.

Self rising flour is just flour with some baking powder and salt already added to flour. So yes, you can definitely make it yourself! Just add about 1 and a half teaspoons of baking powder and about 1/2 a teaspoon of salt for every cup of flour you use. Be sure to mix this up well.

While it is hard to dye a chocolate cake because of the brown color, you can use frosting and sprinkles to make the cake colorful. A few good colors for a birthday cake are light blue, yellow, white, pink, or purple. Choose what you think she'll like the most.