Moist Chocolate Cake!

It has been a long time since my last entry as I was busy with my year-end closing. Have tried to bake a chocolate cake last Sat using the mix from White Wings.

Moist Chocolate Cake
(recipe from White Wings)

Preparation time: 8 mins
Cooking time: 40-45 mins
Serves: 12
Oven temperature: 180C
Cost: about $3 for the mix and eggs

Ingredients:
1. 370g White Wings moist chocolate cake mix
2. 2 eggs
3. 20g soft butter
4. 250ml water

Preparation:
1. Preheat oven to 180C.
2. Grease a 6cm deep x 20cm round cake pan. Line the base with baking paper.
3. Empty the sachet into a mixing bowl. Add eggs, water and soft butter.
4. Beat on low speed for 30 sec to combine before increasing speed to medium and mix for 4 mins.
5. Spread mixture into prepared pan. Put some toppings that you like. In this case, I have added chocolate chips and almonds.
6. Bake for 40-45 mins.
7. Stand for 5 mins before transferring to a wire rack for cooling.

You may go http://www.whitewings.com.au/ for more creative ideas. Alternative suggestion is to use the mix to make chocolate orange cupcake which I may be trying out the next time. I found the above recipe too chocolaty and it will be some time before I try to bake something related to chocolate :-)

You can also see that the cake was cracked in the centre. My guess is my oven temperature was set too high (I set to 190C) and the oven was not preheated long enough. As a result, the heat was not evenly distributed and thus the centre was cooked first.