Chocolate cake

As a chocolate cake, and chocolate cake, referred to different cakes, prepared with cocoa products, which are commonly referred to as chocolate.

Definition

There is no generally accepted view, which is a chocolate cake. The Food Encyclopedia by Dr. Oetker describes chocolate cake as follows: " [ ... ] of different masses, often moderate stirring or masses of sand produced in long or round shape cake with full or partial chocolate coating ( not white chocolate) or a flavoring amount of chocolate inside. "

Ingredients

In addition to wheat flour, starch, sugar, eggs and different blowing agents such as baking powder, baking soda or mineral water are used. As a cocoa product deoiled cocoa powder or powdered drinking chocolate are possible. For some recipes using finely chopped chocolate (grated or chopped). For the icing is typically used couverture, in the field of home economics but also variants of melted chocolate are possible. In part, they are supplemented by milk products, cocoa butter, palm oil and Ceralien ( grated coconut, Schokoladenstreussel or crushed chocolate). A flavored with spirits ( rum, liqueur or equivalent substitutes ) is partially usual.

Variants

We distinguish the following groups of baked goods:

• Sponge cakes, as Mr. cakes, soda cake
• Sheet cake
• Rührkuchenschnitten, like brownies
• Portioned cakes from chocolate dough, such as muffins or donuts

Colloquially, the terms of chocolate cake and chocolate cake are used interchangeably as synonyms. The main feature of a pie is next to the round shape of the alternate stack of pie crusts (partly in the recipe, the chocolate cake like that) and creams. This can also include chocolate, for example, chocolate pudding, praline cream, butter cream with cocoa. Likewise, those creams glaze of chocolate cake are used, which leads to a rapprochement. An example of a well-known chocolate cake is the Herrentorte.

The Cold dog is a mixture of chocolate and biscuits, a sweet and no baked good or cake.