Luscious Dark Chocolate Cake - Real Recipes from Mums

Ingredients (serves 12)

185g butter, softened
½ cup caster sugar
2 eggs
180g NESTLÉ BAKERS’ CHOICE Dark CHUNKS
Baking Cocoa
1¼ cup self-raising flour
½ cup milk
360g NESTLÉ BAKERS’ CHOICE Milk CHUNKS
250g butter
500g punnet of strawberries

Method

Preheat oven to 180°C/ 160°C fan-forced. Grease and line a 20cm deep round cake pan.
Beat butter and sugar together; then reduce speed, until light and creamy. Beat in eggs one at a time then beat in NESTLÉ BAKERS’ CHOICE Dark CHUNKS.
Fold in sifted NESTLÉ BAKERS’ CHOICE Baking Cocoa and flour alternately with milk.
Spoon into prepared tin and bake 45-50 minutes until cooked.
Remove from pan and cool on a wire rack.
While cake is cooking, combine NESTLÉ BAKERS’ CHOICE Milk CHUNKS and butter together in a small heat-proof bowl, microwave uncovered on MEDIUM (50%) for 1 minute; stir. Repeat process in 30 second intervals until melted and smooth. Allow to cool, then refrigerate for 30 minutes or until spreading consistency.
Cut cake in half and sandwich together using ¼ of icing mixture.
Spread remaining icing mixture over cake. Refrigerate for 30 minutes or until set. Decorate with strawberries Note: Allow cooling time.

90 Comments

- - meedee said
  - 03 Sep 2021
    10:54 am
yummy yes please. This looks awesome.

- - mom19782016 said
  - 18 Jan 2018
    8:51 pm
Dear Kate, please come and make this for me stat. I can’t be trusted to be alone with NESTLÉ baker’s choice’ dark or milk chunks.

- - sars_angelchik said
  - 16 Jan 2018
    11:17 am
This looks amaaazing!

- - youngoldlady said
  - 13 Jan 2018
    12:05 am
This went done well at a bring a desert plate party.

- - sars_angelchik said
  - 26 Jul 2017
    1:48 pm
Oh, yes please!!

- - ella12 said
  - 24 Jul 2017
    4:15 pm
This looks just delightful, thank you.

- - rachel1970 said
  - 20 Jul 2017
    7:32 pm
DELICIOUS, what a lovely looking cake. Bet it tastes as good as it looks

- - mom90758 said
  - 20 Jul 2017
    4:36 pm
What a gorgeous presentation! And with all those beautiful strawberries on top!

- - youngoldlady said
  - 06 Jul 2017
    4:52 pm
Looks like and sounds like a good one for a dinner party or take a plate party.

- - tessie said
  - 19 Mar 2017
    12:23 pm
I love having my cake with a nice hot cappaccino

- - cherz said
  - 17 Mar 2017
    2:02 pm
Yumm this is chocolate heaven. thanks.

- - mom112217 said
  - 17 Mar 2017
    8:39 am
A beauitful looking cake and the strawberries on top really make it!

- - rachel1970 said
  - 16 Mar 2017
    6:53 pm
oooh how delicious, now I’m craving chocolate-hand on a second, I’m always craving chocolate anyhow!

- - rovermum said
  - 16 Mar 2017
    5:13 pm
You had me at luscious, and decadent and chocolate…

- - mom101628 said
  - 20 Feb 2017
    4:00 pm
Sounds a very decadent once in a blue moon type of cake.

- - rovermum said
  - 20 Feb 2017
    9:49 am
This looks like a yummy, delicious, luxurious, decadent cake.

- - cherz said
  - 18 Feb 2017
    7:59 pm
oh my this looks and sounds sooo decedent. thanks for sharing.

- - rachel1970 said
  - 18 Feb 2017
    6:32 pm
Anything chocolate, in my books is good. YUMM

- - Ellen said
  - 18 Feb 2017
    3:06 pm
Not my type of recipe but it looks nice.

- - tessie said
  - 18 Feb 2017
    9:27 am
I love chocolate unfortunately. This looks and sounds delicious. Wonder when the next staff meeting is?