Chocolate Fudge Cake method - Homemade Chocolate Fudge Layer Cake

I don't know about you, but I love chocolate fudge cake. One look at this scrumptious layer cake makes my mouth water. Chocolate lovers will scoop this up pretty quick so make sure you grab a piece before it's all gone.

2 cups sifted cake flour

Coconut Water

2 teaspoons baking powder

Chocolate Fudge Cake method - Homemade Chocolate Fudge Layer Cake

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

3 squares unsweetened chocolate

2/3 cup water

1 1/2 cup sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla

2/3 cup butter, softened

3 eggs

1/3 cup buttermilk

Chocolate fudge filling

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Grease and flour two 8-inch round cake pans.

Tear off a big sheet of wax paper and set on kitchen counter. Using a sifter, sift the flour baking powder, baking soda onto the wax paper.

In a saucepan or duplicate boiler, incorporate the chocolate, water and 1/4 cup of sugar; cook over low heat while stirring constantly. When chocolate is thick and smooth, transfer to someone else bowl. Chill chocolate in a pan of ice water; stir occasionally. Add vanilla to chocolate.

In a large bowl, beat together the butter and sugar until nice and fluffy. Beat in the eggs, one at a time. Blend in the chilled chocolate.

Add in the sifted flour mixture, alternating with the buttermilk - beat batter thoroughly after each addition, until nice and smooth. Pour the cake batter into cake pans.

Bake for 35 minutes, or until town of cake springs back when pressed lightly. Cool on wire rack. When cake is cool, split each round in half and fill with the Chocolate Fudge Filling. Use same filling to frost the whole cake.

Chocolate Fudge Filling

6 squares semisweet chocolate

3 tablespoons butter

7 tablespoons milk

1 teaspoon vanilla

3 cups sifted confectioners' sugar

In a small saucepan, add the chocolate squares and butter. Cook over low heat until melted.

In a bowl, add the melted chocolate, milk, vanilla and stir until well blended. Add in the confectioners' sugar and mix until filling is smooth and indubitably spreadable.

=> Chocolate Fudge Cake Recipe: Chocolate Fudge Sheet Cake

This method is a great alternative to a layer cake. This chocolate fudge cake is ready for picnics, potlucks and parties. Good save this method because you'll be asked to make it again and again.

2 cups flour

2 cups sugar

1/2 teaspoon salt

2 sticks butter

1 cup water

3 heaping tablespoons cocoa

2 eggs

1 teaspoon soda

1/2 cup buttermilk

1 teaspoon vanilla

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Grease and flour a 9 x 13-inch baking pan.

Using a sifter, sift the flour into a bowl. Add in the sugar and salt. Resift a second time into the bowl.

In a saucepan, mix together the butter, water and cocoa; bring to a boil. Add warm chocolate aggregate to the flour and stir thoroughly.

In a separate bowl, mix together the eggs, baking soda, buttermilk and vanilla. Add to chocolate batter and mix thoroughly until batter is smooth. Pour into cake pan.

Bake for 20 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in middle comes out clean. Frost cake with Chocolate Fudge Frosting.

Chocolate Fudge Frosting

1 stick butter

6 to 8 tablespoons milk

3 tablespoons cocoa

1 box confectioners' sugar

1 cup chopped pecans or walnuts (optional)

1 teaspoon vanilla

In a saucepan, cook the butter, cocoa and milk over low heat (do not boil). Take off pan from heat and stir in the sugar, nuts and vanilla. Beat with an electric mixer until frosting is smooth.

Pour warm frosting over cake and spread with a knife.

Chocolate Fudge Cake method - Homemade Chocolate Fudge Layer Cake

Coconut Oil Shampoo method

There are many reasons for which you would want to make your own shampoo from scratch. There are two main reasons: first you probably want to avoid the nasty chemicals in the widely available shampoos, and secondly it's well great chemistry fun.

Shampoos are just like soaps but they have a special property: they protect your natural oils from your scalp and hair. Most soaps use animal fat. But a truly salutary shampoo is based on vegetable fat. Most used one is the coconut oil. Coconut oil shampoos have easy to supervene recipes and their results are salutary and lovely to use.

Coconut Water

To prepare a shampoo you first of all need a well ventilated room or just prepare it outdoors.

Coconut Oil Shampoo method

Here are the ingredients indispensable for a coconut oil shampoo recipe. They are easy to find and also very cheap. You will need:

-- coconut oil
- -water
-- lye
-- glycerol
-- alcohol (vodka)
-- some indispensable oils for the fragrance

Here are the easy steps of one of the recipes for making a great coconut oil shampoo:

1. Pour the oils in a large pan and mix them together.

2. Wearing protection glasses and gloves, mix the lye and the water. This reaction will produce heat so be cautious.

3. Warm the oils and cool the lye until they reach the same temperature. You will have to do this without mixing them. To do this you should place both packaging in the same tray filled with warm water. And allow them to equilibrate their temperatures.

4. Mix the two components together. The supervene will have a dark color.

5. Stir in the glycerol and the alcohol.

6. Add water.

This is one of the simplest of the many coconut oil shampoo recipes available out there. There are many variations. And you should without fail try them. The coconut oil shampoo is healthy, easy to prepare and very cheap. This way you can avoid all chemicals and other rather toxic products.

Coconut Oil Shampoo method

Nigerian Salad method - How to Make Your Own

The Nigerian Salad is a special salad method native to Nigeria. It is such a unique salad method that even if one ingredient is left out, it loses its special taste. This is why Nigerians all over the world always seek this salad method in the quest to get the exact taste and richness of the Nigerian Salad. Foreigners who have been lucky to taste this salad also ask for the method right after tasting it.

The Nigerian Salad is so filling that it can be eaten as a meal on its own or as a side dish to the discrete Nigerian Rice Recipes - the Jollof Rice, the Nigerian Fried Rice, the Nigerian Coconut Rice, the Nigerian White Rice and Tomato Stew to name a few. It can also be eaten with the Nigerian Moi Moi. To make the Nigerian Salad with the unique salad taste, you just need to succeed the steps detailed below to the letter.

Coconut Water

The quantities of ingredients stated are what will give a typical taste of the Nigerian Salad. The ratio of the quantities can be halved or doubled and the same taste will be achieved.

Nigerian Salad method - How to Make Your Own

Ingredients:

1 medium bunch of Lettuce 5 medium-sized Carrots 4 small pieces of Irish Potatoes 2 medium pieces of Cucumber 3 medium Eggs 1 415 gram tin of Baked Beans in tomato sauce 200 grams of Sweet Corn 5 pieces of Plum Tomatoes Salad Dressing - The Heinz Salad Cream works best with this salad recipe. A close substitute is the Heinz Caeser Salad Cream. Mayonnaise can be used as a last resort but it needs to be diluted with vegetable oil as it is too thick for the Nigerian Salad recipe.

Before you prepare the Nigerian Salad:

Wash and cook the Irish potatoes till done. The eggs should also be hard-boiled. To save time, the Irish potatoes and the eggs can be cooked in the same pot as they need roughly equal amount of time to get done.

All the vegetables need to be washed. Cut the lettuce into thin shreds. Scrape and shred the carrots using a grater. Peel and cut the boiled potatoes into sizeable cubes. Peel, remove the seeds and cut the cucumber as shown. If you want more green color in your salad, you may peel the cucumber in stripes. Remove the seeds from the plum tomatoes and cut into small cubes. Place all the cut vegetables in separate containers. Open the sweet corn and drain the preservation water. Rinse the seeds and set aside. Also open the baked beans tin and set aside. Remove the shells of the hard-boiled eggs, slice with an egg slicer and set aside.

Follow these steps when establishment the Nigerian Salad

With the irregularity of the egg, start putting the salad ingredients in small batches into a big salad bowl. You can start with the lettuce, followed by the tomatoes, then potatoes, sweet corn, baked beans, cucumber, carrots then back to lettuce. Repeat the process till all the ingredients are exhausted. This method of making the Nigerian Salad helps the juice from each of the ingredients to seep into others. Now, place the sliced eggs on the salad, surface the top. Cover the bowl and place in the fridge for at least one hour. This is to give all the Nigerian Salad ingredients time to blend with each other. In addition, the Nigerian Salad is best served chilled. Serve with a salad dressing of your choice but as mentioned earlier, the excellent Heinz Salad cream works best with the Nigerian Salad.

Notes and Tips.

If you prefer your own salad crunchy, you can substitute the lettuce with cabbage. Instead of taking out the lettuce entirely, you can use the two as the lettuce adds a green color to the salad. Afterall this recipes is not only about the taste but about color too.

The above are the minimum ingredients for making a Nigerian Salad. More ingredients such as boiled macaroni, corned beef, green bell pepper, green peas etc can be added to the Nigerian Salad for discrete flavour.

The Nigerian Salad will be good for 24 hours if no salad dressing is added to it.

If you are able to buy a baby cucumber, it may not be principal to remove the seeds.

Enjoy!

Nigerian Salad method - How to Make Your Own