Dress up your Chocolate cake

So this is a great tip if you want to make an easy premix cake and make it look really fancy and delicious.

You can take any premixed vanilla or chocolate cake and make it look and taste like a million bucks. Plus you have the satisfaction of baking a cake on your own at home!

You will need any basic premix cake - I would suggest Betty Crocker's chocolate or vanilla cake. This will basically require you to put in water, oil and eggs and mix it all together till all lumps have disappeared








Tip No 1:
Invest in a spring form pan (something that has a detachable bottom and a clip on the side so that you can take the cake out. Take a medium sized one I assure you, it's totally worth the investment


Tip No 2:
Butter the pan and after you butter the pan, take flour and shake the flour all over the pan so the whole inside of the cake tin is coated in white powder.

Bake the cake using all the instructions on the cake box

Make sure that you buy the following for the icing:
1/4 cup sugar
500 gm Chocolate (any cooking chocolate will do - Morde is pretty good)
250 gms fresh cream
A handful of chocolate shavings
Icing sugar

Method: things to do whilst the cake is baking
Take 1/4 cup sugar with 1/4 cup water, heat it till the sugar has melted. Leave aside to cool
Melt the chocolate, heat the cream, add the chocolate to the cream and mix together and leave aside to cool

• Once your cake has been baked, and considerably cooled then take it out of the cake tin
• Once it's cooled fully, then carefully cut the cake into half horizontally
• Put some sugar syrup (but little as the bottom may get soggy with too much syrup)
• Put a little of the icing in the center of the cake
• put the top half on top of this and again put some sugar syrup on the top of the cake. Do not use all of the sugar syrup your cake will become deathly sweet
• Pour the rest of the chocolate icing on top of the cake and dollop it all over your cake making sure that you put it properly on the side
• Put the chocolate shavings on the center of the cake and dust some icing sugar on top

You will end up with a cake that looks so brilliant and amazing and you can brag about baking it yourself too! Talking about having your cake and eating it too!