Rice Cooker / Bread Machine Moist Chocolate Cake
Don’t have a oven at home? Don’t fret! You can bake a delicious & moist chocolate cake with your rice cooker.
This works best with multi-functional rice cookers, ideally one that has a cake setting and uses a non-stick pot. This is actually a bread machine recipe. So use your bread machine if you have one and save yourself some time from mixing, just follow the sequence of adding ingredients in the recipe notes below.
Butter vs oil
Not all fats are created equal… especially when it comes to baking, it makes a difference which fat you use and when you use it in the recipe.
Oil takes the trophy for keeping cakes moist, compared to butter-based cakes. While butter adds a richer flavor compared to oil. Oil-based cakes also tend to maintain their soft, moist textures for a longer period of time.
You can certainly use a combination of butter and oil to give your cake the best possible taste, while also preserving the soft, fluffy texture.
Flour
Plain aka all-purpose flour is an all-round good flour to use for baking. But if you want to make a really soft cake, do substitute it with cake flour.
Coffee + chocolate = a richer treat
Adding brewed coffee to your homemade chocolate cake batter will render it irresistible. The flavors of coffee and chocolate are a heavenly match for mocha. But it’s not about making a mocha-flavoured cake, instead the coffee will enhance and add complexity to the chocolaty flavor, resulting in a richer cake.
If you’re afraid of ending up with a coffee-flavored cake, don’t worry. Half a tablespoon of coffee powder won’t overpower the chocolate.
Rice Cooker / Bread Machine Moist Chocolate Cake
Equipment
- Whisk
- Spatula
- Rice Cooker
- Bread Machine
Ingredients
Dry
- 90 g Sugar use 180g if you prefer sweeter
- 100 g Plain flour
- 50 g Cocoa powder
- ½ tsp Baking soda
- ½ tsp Baking powder
- ½ tbsp Instant coffee powder (optional)
Wet
- 2 Eggs
- ¾ cup Butter or oil softened
- 200 ml Evaporated milk
- 1 tsp Vanilla extract
Instructions
- Mix all dry ingredients in a bowl, put aside. Mix wet ingredients in a separate bowl.
- Pour the wet mixture into the dry mix in batches. Mix until well combined.
- Pour the batter into the rice cooker pot and place it into the rice cooker. Set it to 'Cake' function and cook.
- Once done, remove pot from rice cooker, set it on the counter to cool for at least 30 mins.
- Use a spatula and run it around the edges of the cake to loosen. Flip pot to remove cake from pot.
- Slice and serve!
Video
Notes
- This recipe can also be used for Bread Machine, place ingredients in sequence below:
- 2 eggs
- 3/4 cup butter or oil
- 90 to 180 g sugar
- 200 ml evaporated milk
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 100 g plain flour
- 50 g cocoa powder
- 1/2 tbsp instant coffee powder (optional)
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