Top 5 Chocolate Cake Recipes

Cake is a form of sweet dessert that is typically baked. In its oldest forms, cakes were modifications of breads but now cover a wide range of preparations that can be simple or elaborate and share features with other desserts such as pastries, meringues, custards and pies.

Top 5 Chocolate Cake Recipes

Recipe#01

Chocolate and Raspberry Baked Ricotta Cake

INGRESIENTS:

 . 3/4 cup (165g) reduced-fat ricotta cheese (see note)
 . 2 cups self-raising flour
 . 1/4 cup cocoa powder
 . 1 cup caster sugar
 . 100g butter, melted
 . 1 cup hot water
 . 1 cup frozen raspberries

Raspberry sauce
 . 1/4 cup caster sugar

 . 1 cup frozen raspberries

Method:

Step 1
Preheat oven to 160°C. Grease and line base and sides of a 6.5cm-deep, 22cm (base) round cake pan with baking paper.

Step 2
Sift flour and cocoa into a bowl. Add sugar, butter, water and ricotta. Mix well. Gently fold through raspberries. Pour mixture into pan. Bake for 1 hour and 20 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Stand in pan for 5 minutes. Turn onto wire rack to cool.

Step 3
Make raspberry sauce: Combine sugar and 2 tablespoons cold water in a saucepan over medium heat. Cook, stirring, for 5 minutes or until syrup thickens slightly. Add raspberries. Remove from heat and set aside for 15 minutes.

Step 4
Cut cake into wedges. Place on plates. Spoon over raspberry sauce. Serve.