Chocolate Buttons Cake

My mood has been quite down since last week, I had accidentally deleted all the photos in my blog :(. I didn't know that the blog photos were sync to my mobile phone, I thought I had a back up copy so just deleted all the photos in my phone and there gone, all my photos that posted in my blog. So now, I need to reload the photos back to the blog, but worst is my hard disk ever crashed before so I do not have some (may be a lot) of my baked photos. Seeing I am so upset, my department gals even bought me some sweet treats to cheer me up, thanks gals for your nice gesture and it helps to brighten a little bit of my bad day. Haiz... I do not know I will need to take how long to do the recovery work since I have very limited leisure time due to my little kicker. I am still feeling so upset now....



Well back to my today post, this was baked during June school holiday when dear daughter requested for it. Whenever she has a lot of free time at home, she will hunt for food. I looked through my baking books to look for chocolate cake recipes as per her requested and found chocolate savarin in one of my baking book. Dear daughter pointed at the picture and said that she want that but the cake must be chocolate cake instead. I had to hunt for easy chocolate cake recipe and I found chocolate buttons which look the same as chocolate savarin so I immediately got my hands to work on it.

Anyway my bakes are not as nice and pretty as Jessie's. The cakes have a lot of holes compared to Jessie's which looks so soft and velvet :(.

I would said this cake require a lot of work cos I have only 1 donut tray that can bake 12 chocolate buttons per time which I need to bake 3 times for 29 buttons. And the thick batter also creating the difficulty of filling the donut tray using spoon, perhaps piping is more easier.

Recipe adaped from Hearty Bakes.

Ingredients: yields 29 buttons

For Cake

150g butter (softened)
135g sugar
3 eggs
200g self-raising flour

6 tbsp milk (the batter still quite dry even with 6 tbsp of milk)
55g cocoa powder

For filling

180g chocolate (melted) -- I still left quite an amount of melted chocolate, 150g should be more than enough

Method:

1. Preheat oven at 180C (I used 170C for my oven), grease the donut trays.

2. Whisk butter, sugar, eggs, milk and flour and cocoa until smooth and well-mixed.

3. Transfer batter into piping bag. Pipes batter onto donut trays till full. (I used spoon to scoope the batter into the donut tray instead)

4. Bake for about 18 to 20 minutes or until well risen and springy to the touch. (I baked 18 mins but over baked, so 15 mins for my oven)

5. Transfer to a wire rack and let cool.

6. Double-boil chocolate. Pipe into the hole in each donut-shaped cakes. (I used spoon to fill)

Verdict?

Perhaps I had over baked the cake, the cakes were a bit hard and dry for outer layer. However the cake still  tasted not bad with the chocolate filling, at least the kids like it.