Chocolate Cake Made in a Rice Cooker
Time
75 Min
SErves
8
Ingredients
Cake
- 1 and a half cups Sugar
- 250 Grams Butter, use margarine if you prefer
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla Essence, Use vanilla sugar if vanilla essence is unavailable
- 3 large Eggs
- 2 cups All Purpose Flour
- 1 cup Coco Powder
- 1 teaspoon Baking Powder
- a dash of Salt
- 1 and a half cups Milk
Chocolate Topping
- 500 grams cooking chocolate
- 1 cup cooking cream or whipping cream
- 50 grams of unsalted butter
Instructions
Cake
- Sift all the dry ingredients into a large bowl and put aside.
- Add the sugar into a large mixing bowl.
- Soften the butter over low heat, stirring constantly.
- Add the butter to the sugar and whisk until the sugar dissolves
- Add eggs and whisk until fluffy.
- Add vanilla essence or vanilla sugar
- Add in all the dry ingredients while whisking the whole time.
- Add milk and mix until smooth.
- Grease the sides and bottom of the rice cooker. Use butter! It enhances the flavor of the cake)
- Pour the mixture into the rice cooker. Press start and you are good to go.
Chocolate Topping
- You will need a bowl that fits snugly over the top of your pot.
- Break the chocolate into small pieces and throw it into a small bowl.
- Put a pot of water to boil and put the bowl with the chocolate over the pot. (Optimally your bowl would fit halfway inside the pot, the bowl touching the hot water, but not touching the bottom of the pot)
- when the chocolate softens add in the butter and cream and stir well.
- If there are lumps of chocolate, remove the bowl from the top of the pot and reboil the water. Put the bowl back on top of the pot and stir until the chocolate topping is smooth.
- Pour the topping on top of the cake while the topping is still warm, so it can mold itself to the cake.