This document provides instructions for making a chocolate cake. It outlines important considerations before baking such as the occasion, number of people, and ingredients needed or not needed in the cake. It then lists the steps and materials required, including mixing ingredients like self-raising flour, cocoa powder, brown sugar, treacle, oil, vanilla, milk, water and eggs. The instructions specify pre-heating the oven, mixing ingredients based on cake size, baking at 350-150 degrees F for at least 45 minutes while continuously checking, cooling for 15 minutes before decorating with icing sugar.
2. WHAT TO UNDERSTAND
BEFORE STARTING TO BAKE
1. What’s the occasion
2. For how many people
3. Size of a cake
4. Age group
5. What is needed/not needed in the cake
6. When is the cake needed
3. STEPS NEEDED TO BAKE A
CAKE
1. Materials needed
2. Ingredients needed
3. Mixing the ingredients
4. Baking a cake
5. Checking
6. Done baking
4. MATERIALS/EQUIPMENTS
NEEDED
1. Pan (For pouring the mixture from the bowls & baking it.)
2. Wooden spoon (For stir the mixture)
3. Table spoon (To measure the ingredients)
4. Bowl (For mixing purposes)
5. Toothpick (for testing whether the cake is done baked or
not (You just insert in into Centre so that by time you check
it finding it coming out clean then you know that you cake is
done)
5. GREDIENTS
• Self raising flour
• Use a tablespoons of cocoa powder & baking powder
• Brown sugar
• Dessertspoon of black treacle (un-crystallised syrup)
• Sunflower oil
• Vanilla
• Fresh milk & Water
• Eggs
(To bake a good cake make sure your ingredients Measurements
are accurately)
This must always reminds you of how big or small is your cake.
7. PRE-HEAT THE OVEN
This is making sure
that the heat
circulates in the
oven so that by the
time you start
baking every side
of your cake gets
heat equally.
8. MIX THE INGREDIENTS
Remember the
size of the cake
to avoid over
mixing the
ingredients
Put them together
in a bowl and mix
(Determined by the
size of the cake)
mix them until it
turns to brown and
creamy
9. BAKING THE CAKE
Put the pan inside the stove of 350 - 150 degrees
Bake it for atleast 45 minutes, then continuously
check the cake after each and every 15 minutes
(Remember that checking your cake is by the
use of toothpick)
When is done baked, Take it out of a pan
Cool the cake for at least 15 minutes
Now you can decorate you cake by using (Icing
sugar)
Why is the cake need to be made (Birthday Party, Anniversary & Marriage etc)
How many people will be invited for this occasion
How big or small the cake must be (Determined by the number of people invited)
Is it for Adult people or children
What might be the allergic ingredients that are not needed/What cake flavor is needed.
Request a specific date and time for the cake to be done
(This is whereby you’ll be having a full understanding of the type of a cake you are making)
Always remember that in order to do anything perfectly there must be steps to follow:
Material things used to bake
Make sure that after understanding everything needed/not you start collecting you ingredients.
Prepare the stove (preheat it) which you going to use for baking
While the stove is warming-up then get busy mixing the ingredients.
Then bake the cake
Checking the cake by the use of the toothpick
Now that you are done, it means that the cake is ready