Chocolate Birthday Cake Recipe: Easy Celebration Cake

Chocolate Birthday Cake Recipe: Easy Celebration Cake

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An easy, reliable chocolate birthday cake — a rich two-layer celebration cake with chocolate buttercream, plus make-ahead, freezing and tin-scaling tips.

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Ingredients

  • 200g dark chocolate (around 50–60% cocoa), broken up
  • 200g unsalted butter, softened, plus extra for the tins
  • 200g caster sugar
  • 200g self-raising flour
  • 6 large eggs
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract or paste
  • Finely grated zest of half an orange (optional)
  • For the chocolate buttercream: 150g dark chocolate
  • For the chocolate buttercream: 250g unsalted butter, softened
  • For the chocolate buttercream: 300g icing sugar, sifted
  • For the chocolate buttercream: a pinch of salt

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