Photo: David Holifield
Easy chocolate birthday cake
16 ingredients
30 min + 2 hr
Makes 1 cake
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This is a really easy birthday cake for kids of all ages. Dan Lepard shows you how to make it in a step-by-step video.
Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)
1051
Calories
29g
Protein
40g
Fat
138g
Carbs
Counts 8 of 9 ingredients — the other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.
What these numbers assume — 8 portions →
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Flour | 1 cup (125g) all-purpose | 455 |
| Chocolate | 1 oz (28g) semisweet | 155 |
| Milk | 1 cup (244ml) whole | 149 |
| Butter | 1 tbsp (14g) | 102 |
| Egg | 1 large egg (50g) | 78 |
| Cream | 1 tbsp (15ml) heavy | 51 |
| Sugar | 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated | 49 |
| Vanilla | 1 tsp extract (4ml) | 12 |
| Sunflower Oil | not in our table | 0 |
Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.
Ingredients
- 100g/3½oz unsalted butter
- 250g/9oz caster or brown sugar
- 50ml/2fl oz sunflower oil
- 25g/1oz cocoa powder
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 4 medium free-range eggs
- 80ml/2½fl oz milk
- 100ml/3½fl oz double cream
- 300g/10½oz plain flour
- 3 tsp baking powder
- 25g/1oz cocoa powder
- 300g/10½oz icing sugar
- 50g/1¾oz butter
- 50ml/2fl oz double cream
- 250ml/9fl oz double cream
- 150g/5½oz jam
Directions
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By bbcfood ·
Recipe sourced from
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