Chocolate cake in a slow cooker

Lush, beautiful, delicious, for a festive table! Chocolate cake is a combination of air cakes and butter cream with chocolate. The biscuit is baked in a slow cooker and turns out to be high, lush, with a moist and porous structure. In the oven, it does not always turn out so successful.
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Composition / ingredients

servings:
Translation table of volumetric measures
Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 9 % 5 g
Fats 31 % 18 g
Carbohydrates 60 % 35 g
318 kcal
GI: 9 / 0 / 91

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 2 hours
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    How to make a chocolate cake in a slow cooker? First of all, prepare a biscuit. Prepare the products for him. Take natural cocoa, of good quality, a drink like Nesquik will not work. Refined vegetable oil, odorless.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    How to make a biscuit? In a separate bowl, sift flour and cocoa, add baking soda and baking powder to them, mix. Add sugar, stir again.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    In another bowl, lightly whisk the eggs with a whisk. Add milk and butter to them, mix well.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Combine the dry and liquid parts, stir with a whisk until smooth. The mass turns out to be thick, that's right, we will dilute it with boiling water.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Boil water, pour boiling water into a glass and immediately pour it into the dough. Stir it well with a whisk, the dough will become very liquid, that's what you need, do not be afraid. Please note that all mixing takes place with a conventional hand whisk — this is very convenient.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Lubricate the bowl of the slow cooker with a small amount of vegetable oil, pour the dough into it.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    Bake a biscuit in a mode suitable for baking, I have it called "Baking", there may be another one on your model. Set the time to 65 minutes plus 40 extra. After the end of baking, open the lid slightly and let the biscuit cool completely. Then remove the bowl and the cake from it. This usually happens without problems.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    While the biscuit is baking, prepare the cream. Prepare the products for him. Choose the highest quality chocolate, with a high cocoa content, delicious. Cream is the fattest, natural, at least 33%.

  9. Step 9:

    Step 9.

    How to make cream? Heat the cream well over the fire, but do not bring it to a boil. Add the chocolate broken into pieces to them and, working intensively with a whisk, stir the cream until the chocolate is completely dissolved. Cool the mixture and put it in the refrigerator for a few hours.

  10. Step 10:

    Step 10.

    After the cold, the creamy chocolate mixture will thicken greatly. Beat it with a mixer to a thick cream.

  11. Step 11:

    Step 11.

    Cut the sponge cake into 3 or 4 cakes, depending on its height.

  12. Step 12:

    Step 12.

    Smear each cake with a good portion of cream.

  13. Step 13:

    Step 13.

    Also lubricate the top cake.

  14. Step 14:

    Step 14.

    And the sides of the cake.

  15. Step 15:

    Step 15.

    Put the finished cake in the refrigerator for a few hours, for impregnation. Decorate as desired. Serve to the table. Bon appetit!

The cake turned out very tasty, for real connoisseurs of chocolate!
The biscuit turns out almost black from cocoa, but it doesn't taste as rich, so the cream perfectly complements it. To get an even more chocolate taste, take not 200, but 300 grams of chocolate.
This cake can be made with other creams. You can just beat cream with powdered sugar, you can take mascarpone instead of cream.
Sponge cake according to this recipe, also known as "chocolate on boiling water", is great for making Black Forest cake.

Be sure to wash the eggs before using, as even the seemingly clean shell may contain harmful bacteria. It is best to use food detergents and a brush.

Is it possible to replace baking powder with soda, how to add them correctly so that the baking is lush, how to avoid an unpleasant soda taste and much more, read the article "Baking powder or baking soda - which is better?"   

Keep in mind that the cooking time and mode in the recipe are indicated approximately. All slow cookers work differently and even the same models of the same manufacturer may have their own characteristics. Before you start cooking a new dish for you in a slow cooker, carefully study the instructions for it, and then in practice try to cook dishes that are familiar to you first, and then new ones, choosing the mode and time individually for your own technique.

Calorie content of products possible in the dish

  • Whole cow's milk - 68   kcal/100g
  • Milk 3.5% fat content - 64   kcal/100g
  • Milk 3.2% fat content - 60   kcal/100g
  • Milk 1.5% fat content - 47   kcal/100g
  • Concentrated milk 7.5% fat content - 140   kcal/100g
  • Milk 2.5% fat content - 54   kcal/100g
  • Chicken egg - 157   kcal/100g
  • Egg white - 45   kcal/100g
  • Egg powder - 542   kcal/100g
  • Egg yolk - 352   kcal/100g
  • Ostrich egg - 118   kcal/100g
  • Whole durum wheat flour fortified - 333   kcal/100g
  • Whole durum wheat flour, universal - 364   kcal/100g
  • Flour krupchatka - 348   kcal/100g
  • Flour - 325   kcal/100g
  • Granulated sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Vegetable oil - 873   kcal/100g
  • Cocoa powder - 374   kcal/100g
  • Water - 0   kcal/100g
  • Cream 35% - 337   kcal/100g
  • Cream 40% - 362   kcal/100g
  • Baking powder dough - 79   kcal/100g
  • Chocolate 70 % - 539   kcal/100g
  • Dark Chocolate - 539   kcal/100g
  • Baking soda - 0   kcal/100g

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