How To Bake Cake With Bread Machine

This breadstuff machine chocolate cake recipe is elementary & very easy to make. Just sit back and allow your bread machine broil you a cake! It is perfect if you want to make a quick cake, your oven is not working, y'all don't want to use a packaged cake mix with tons of strange chemicals & preservatives, etc. Your family will enjoy the taste of this simple chocolate block… and y'all will enjoy how piece of cake it is to brand!

Breadstuff Auto Chocolate Block with Chocolate Frosting

Our bread auto cake recipe should take you roughly only v-x minutes to prepare and clean up. In case yous are interested, you will also find a printable and "pin-able" recipe at the bottom of this page.

Ingredients – Bread Auto Chocolate Block

1 Cup – Milk – 230 milliliters
12 Tablespoons – Unsalted Butter (softened) – 171 grams
ii Teaspoons – Vanilla Extract – 10 milliliters
ii – Eggs
2 Cups – All-Purpose Flour – 240 grams
i 1/2 Cups – Low-cal Brown Sugar (packed cups) – 322 grams
1/two Cup – Cocoa Powder Natural Unsweetened (not hot chocolate powder) – 42 grams
ane Teaspoon – Baking Powder – 5 milliliters
1 Teaspoon – Baking Soda – 5 milliliters
1/2 Teaspoon – Salt – 2.5 milliliters
3/4 Cup – Mini Semi-Sweet Chocolate Fries (regular sized chocolate fries are too heavy and sink in the batter) – 100 grams
Optional – Whipped Chocolate Frosting

Servings – Roughly 12 Slices

Equipment – Measuring cup & spoons, soft flexible spatula, oven mitts, wire cooling rack… and of course, a bread automobile!

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Instructions – Bread Auto Chocolate Cake

Bread Motorcar Settings – Light Color, ii lbs, Cake/Quick Breadstuff
Unplug your bread machine and remove the bread pan for the bread automobile.
Soften butter in the microwave.
Add milk, butter, vanilla extract & eggs into a big mixing bowl. Mix together and then add dry ingredients. Stir ingredients until fully mixed. For best results, utilize a whisk or electric hand mixer (simply for but a couple of minutes). And so mix in the chocolate fries with a large spoon. FYI – Premixing the ingredients before calculation the batter to the bread pan helps to prevent flour sticking to the sides of the bread pan and/or finding minor flour "clumps" in the finished cake. Run into tips below.
Pour the premixed batter into the bread pan.
Put the breadstuff pan (with the batter) back into the bread auto, shut the bread motorcar lid and so plug in the staff of life automobile.
Enter the correct bread machine settings ( Block/Quick Bread , Light Color, 2 lb.) and press the start push button. FYI – Before making this recipe, please read the tips section below for more information regarding the cake & sweet "quick staff of life" setting. The setting may be called "quick bread", "quick breadstuff/cake", "cake", etc. This setting lasts for roughly i:40-ane:55 hours (and you lot will see this fourth dimension in your machine'due south electronic display panel). Withal, some manufacturers use the "quick bread" setting proper name for rapid sandwich-blazon breads that use yeast (and not for cake & quick bread recipes that employ baking powder/soda). This "quick bread" sandwich breadstuff setting lasts for simply 50-60 minutes (which is not long enough for a cake recipe and your cake will exist undercooked!!). This setting tin can be very disruptive… only the tips section below will assist y'all to find the right setting to use on your auto. You lot demand to enter the right block setting used by your SPECIFIC bread machine model or the block could be under or overcooked. Do not use whatsoever settings designed for yeast-based recipes (run across your manual).
When the bread machine has finished baking the cake, unplug the bread machine, remove the staff of life pan and identify it on a wooden cut board. Use oven mitts when removing the breadstuff pan considering it will be very hot!
Later on removing the breadstuff pan from the breadstuff machine, you lot should let the cake stay within the warm breadstuff pan on a wooden cutting board for 10 minutes (as this finishes the blistering process) earlier yous remove the cake from the bread pan. Wearable oven mitts.
After the 10 minute "cooldown", yous should remove the cake from the bread pan and place the cake on a wire cooling rack to stop cooling. Use oven mitts when removing the breadstuff.
You should let the cake to completely cool earlier cutting. This tin can accept up to 1-2 hours. Otherwise, the block will break (crumble) more easily when cut.
Please READ the tips beneath in lodge to maximize the success of this recipe & to avert common bread machine cake problems. Focus on the setting information in the tips section below in order to avoid an undercooked block!

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Tips – Bread Automobile Chocolate Cake

The tips below are designed to assistance staff of life automobile "novices" and those who oasis't touched their bread automobile in years.
If yous want to print out this recipe, delight scroll down the folio to our recipe widget "box". You volition observe a "impress recipe" button located right nether the product paradigm photo in this box. Click on that push in order to impress out the bones recipe instructions.
IMPORTANT – If your automobile's electronic display is showing 50-sixty minutes (total time for mixing & baking) before y'all press the "first" push, you have entered the WRONG setting. The total time should be roughly 1:40-1:55 hours (100-115 minutes). Moreover, the baking length of the "quick bread" setting is roughly 1:10-1:twenty hours (out of the total 1:forty-1:55 minutes for this setting). Yeast breads spend a long time on kneading/rising and much less on baking (where every bit moist quick breads spend only a short time on rising – every bit they are using fast rising blistering powder/soda – and a long time on baking). Therefore, a one:55 hour yeast bread setting volition NOT work for a 1:55 hour moist "quick bread" setting.
This recipe will not work in a smaller bread machine (1 lb loaf chapters). It only works in bread motorcar with ane.5 lb or 2 lb loaf capacities. If yous try to make this recipe is a minor staff of life machine, it is more likely to overflow the bread pan or have the middle of the cake plummet.

This recipe is more of an "emergency" cake recipe (i.e. your oven is cleaved). It will create a decent cake. Unfortunately, in most breadstuff machines, you tin not control the blistering temperatures and times. So information technology is much harder to create a fantastic cake.
I know that bread machines are great considering they normally practice the mixing for you… only for this recipe, you lot should strongly consider PREMIXING the ingredients in a large bowl before placing them in the bread pan. This premixing helps to reduce the chance of small white flour "clumps" from appearing inside the finished night-colored chocolate cake. It also reduces the need to scrape the sides of the bread pan (during the auto mixing) in lodge to stir in any flour or cocoa sticking to the sides of the staff of life pan. Bread machines unremarkably don't do a great chore mixing moist cakes, banana breads, etc. and yous will usually find flour sticking to the sides of the breadstuff pan (if yous do non premix the ingredients and/or scrape the within of the breadstuff pan). See your bread machine manual on how to properly & safely scrape the inside of the staff of life pan.

Optional (but recommended) – Add together chocolate frosting to the top of your bread machine cake… for a double dose of delicious chocolate! The picture above shows a bread machine cake topped with Duncan Hines Whipped Chocolate Frosting. Yummy frosting (my children's expert terminology) helps to ameliorate the taste of all chocolate cakes.
Frosting is also a great way to hibernate any cake "flaws" (i.eastward. the elevation of the cake is wrinkled or you damaged the top when y'all removed the cake from the bread pan). Add the frosting after the cake has completely cooled.
This recipe uses MINI chocolate chips. Larger "regular" chocolate chips are too heavy and usually sink to the bottom of the cake. Mini chocolate fries tend to spread out improve in bread machine cakes and sweet quick breads.
Don't add more liquids than chosen for in the recipe or the cake top could plummet.
Some bread machines have a bake only setting only many machines do non have this setting. Therefore, this recipe uses the "Cake/Quick Bread" setting which nearly (merely non all) staff of life machines have. See details below. FYI – I have not tested the bake simply setting for this recipe so I don't know if it work every bit well (as the broil fourth dimension for the broil only setting is ofttimes longer than the bake time for the block/quick bread setting).

Of import – Make sure to utilize the specific setting on your breadstuff machine designed for sweet Cake/Quick Bread recipes. Read your manual!
Be aware that the setting name used for cake recipes tin can vary by bread machine manufacturer. Hither are some examples of some of the setting names used to brand cakes & sweet quick breads on various bread machines – the Sunbeam Breadmaker 5891 uses the "Quick" setting, the Hamilton Beach Bread Maker 29881 uses the "Quick" setting, the Black & Decker BOOONJBYXO Bread Maker uses the "Quick Bread" setting, the Breadman 2lb. Professional Bread Maker (BK1050S) uses the "Quick Staff of life" setting, the Zojirushi BB-PAC20 Breadstuff Maker uses the "Cake" setting and the Cuisinart CBK-100 Bread Maker uses the "Cake/Quick Bread" setting. Therefore, yous must bank check your breadstuff machine'southward instructions for the exact setting name used to brand cake by your specific bread machine model.
However, be aware that some breadstuff machine models have only a limited number of settings and may Not have a setting that can be used for sugariness quick breads and cakes. These breadstuff machines are primarily focused on making sandwich-blazon breads.

DO NOT exist fooled by setting names like Rapid Bread or Express Bread (as these settings are oft used for very rapid bread baking and are not used for cakes & sweet quick breads). For example, on my Sunbeam, the sweet quick bread setting lasts for roughly 1:40 hours versus the express setting which lasts for only 58 minutes.
Important!!! – Be aware that some breadstuff car manufacturers even label the rapid/express bread setting as "Quick Bread" and this tin crusade a lot of confusion!! (considering they use the name in order to describe a setting that makes a rapid sandwich-type bread and not a cake or sweetness quick bread recipe).
Moreover, in many breadstuff machines, the "sugariness staff of life" setting is used for sweet breads that utilize YEAST (not cakes that utilize baking soda/powder). "Sweet bread" recipes are different from cake & sweet quick bread recipes (i.due east. banana bread) and use different mixing & baking times. Therefore, a breadstuff machine cake recipe is unlikely to work on the "sweet bread" setting.
If y'all are however having trouble finding the sweetness quick staff of life setting, bank check your bread machine transmission for details regarding the "Block" setting on your motorcar. Some bread machines have a block setting that states that they can be used for cakes & sweet quick breads.

The recipe on this folio is designed for a quick breadstuff & cake/quick bread setting that lasts roughly 1:40 hours. FYI – On my Sunbeam bread machine (and a number of other bread makers i.e. Hamilton Beach), the sugariness quick bread setting lasts for roughly one:40 hours (with xx minutes of mixing & fourscore minutes of baking). Make sure that you use the quick bread or cake/quick staff of life setting because some "cake" settings (i.e. cake setting on the Sunbeam bread car – model 5891) last for roughly 2:50 hours (versus the quick staff of life setting of 1:xl hours).
Be aware that older and newer models from the same manufacturer may use unlike setting names for the same affair. Therefore, you need to read the manual included with your specific model in social club to decide the correct setting used past your bread machine. Don't guess with settings or assume that the setting used by a similar or older model from your bread machine manufacturer is the aforementioned as the setting used by your specific model.
I know this tin can exist super confusing… but e'er read your staff of life auto transmission and look for the specific setting on your automobile that designed for cakes (with the total mixing & blistering time lasting for roughly 1:40-1:50 hours).
If you accept lost your bread car manual, you can usually find it by searching online. For example, I tin can observe my transmission past typing "Sunbeam staff of life machine manual" into Google.
Many bread motorcar manufacturers also accept recipe booklets where you can also find more information on how to make a block with your specific bread machine model.

Use FRESH ingredients (i.e. baking soda and flour) for the best results. For example, if you use stale baking soda and/or baking powder, your cake will not rise properly and will be also dense. Blistering soda & powder is all-time if used within 6 months of opening the container.
How to eliminate/reduce the mixing paddle "pigsty" in the lesser of the cake – Unplug the bread automobile. Remove the breadstuff pan. Remove the mixing paddle from the bread pan. Mix all of the ingredients together by hand in a separate mixing bowl and then pour into the bread pan. Return the bread pan to the breadstuff auto. Plug in the bread auto then follow the rest of the recipe instructions (in order to terminate the blistering procedure). At that place is no need for the machine to mix anything if you lot take already done all of the mixing by hand (thus no need for a mixing paddle in the bread pan). You will merely take a very small-scale hole left in the finished block by the mixing paddle "pole/connector" (versus a much larger pigsty left by the unabridged mixing paddle).

Be careful when removing the block from the bread loaf pan. Staff of life car cakes are much softer than sandwich-blazon breadstuff loaves. Therefore, they tin can intermission or "dent" more than easily when you remove them from the staff of life loaf pan. When removing the block from the breadstuff pan, y'all should besides exist careful of the movable bread pan handle (because it tin swing into the cake and cause damage).
Optional – If the top center of the bread looks too moist when you take it out of the staff of life machine (or you want to make certain the cake is completely cooked), yous tin can endeavor the classic baking "toothpick test". Gently push button a long wooden skewer (or long wooden chopstick) into the eye of the cake and see if any concoction sticks to the skewer. Make sure to clothing oven gloves because the staff of life pan and staff of life automobile will still be hot. If batter is sticking to the skewer then it hasn't completely cooked. Place the bread loaf pan back into the still warm staff of life car for another five-ten minutes. After the 5-10 minutes, remove the bread pan and retest the cake again with the skewer.

Since a toothpick tin be too short, I like to apply a long chopstick or wooden skewer when conducting the classic "toothpick" test. Recollect always article of clothing oven mitts when dealing with a hot bread pan and breadstuff car.
Later removing the bread pan from the staff of life auto (and the cake successfully passing the optional skewer test), you need to go out the cake in the bread loaf container for 10 minutes subsequently you take it out of the bread machine. Denser & moister staff of life machine cakes have a little longer for the interior dough to be fully baked.
Optional – If you lot are finding modest white clumps of flour in your cakes, you tin can utilize a fine mesh strainer or flour sifter to sift your flour (earlier mixing the flour with the wet ingredients). This "aerates" the flour and breaks upwardly & screens out small flour lumps.
If you take a problem with a bread auto recipe, delight make certain that you are following the recipe exactly. You volition need to make certain that you are inputting the correct bread auto settings, using the exact ingredient measurements (i.eastward. don't eyeball the measurements versus using a measuring cup), using the exact ingredients called for in the recipe (i.eastward. baking soda/powder versus yeast or all purpose flour versus bread flour), etc. Please don't "wing" things with recipes unless you are willing to live with your experiments!

My recipes are based on United states ingredient measurements (i.e. US cups & tablespoons). However, equally a courtesy to our European visitors, I accept also included some very Rough European equivalents (i.e. grams & milliliters). Since I rarely apply European measurements when baking, delight permit me know in the comment section beneath if any of the European ingredient measurements demand to be changed (i.e. for XYZ ingredient, milliliters are more normally used versus the grams information listed in the recipe).
Always be safe when using whatever electric equipment (i.e. mixer). Do not have your hands near any moving parts.
Always wear oven mitts/gloves when dealing with a breadstuff machine. The bread pan and the balance of the bread auto tin get very hot during the baking process. This ways that the bread pan and staff of life car is probable to exist very hot when you effort to remove a baked good from the bread auto and/or bread pan.
Other easy "desserts" that y'all can make with your bread machine include bread machine apple breadstuff, bread machine banana bread, bread machine sweet cornbread and bread automobile pumpkin bread.
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Questions & Answers

Is information technology possible to make a cake in your bread machine?

Yeah. Bread machines tin make delicious cakes. However, they won't exist be super fancy cakes with multiple layers!

Most bread machines tin can make nice basic cakes. Nevertheless, be enlightened that the cake will come out in the shape of the breadstuff automobile'southward staff of life pan (i.e. rectangular) and as not a traditional round block.

Some example of staff of life automobile cakes include bread machine chocolate cake, bread auto pound block, bread machine coffee block, breadstuff car lemon cake, etc.

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Bread Automobile Chocolate Block

This bread machine chocolate cake recipe is simple & very easy to brand. But sit down dorsum and let your breadstuff auto bake you a cake! Visit Bread Dad (BreadDad.com) for more like shooting fish in a barrel bread machine recipes.

Prep Time 10 mins

Cook Fourth dimension 1 60 minutes xl mins

Total Time 1 hr 50 mins

Grade: Appetizer, Dessert, Snack

Cuisine: American

Keyword: bread motorcar cake, bread machine block recipes, bread auto chocolate cake, chocolate cake, easy chocolate cake recipe

Servings: 12 Slices

Calories: 399 kcal

1 Cup Milk – 230 milliliters
12 Tablespoons Unsalted Butter (softened) – 171 grams
2 Teaspoons Vanilla Extract – 10 milliliters
2 Eggs
2 Cups All-Purpose Flour – 240 grams
1 1/2 Cups Calorie-free Brown Sugar (packed cups) – 322 grams
1/ii Cup Cocoa Powder Natural Unsweetened (non hot chocolate pulverization) – 42 grams
1 Teaspoon Baking Pulverisation – 5 milliliters
i Teaspoon Blistering Soda – 5 milliliters
1 Teaspoon Salt – 2.five milliliters
3/4 Cup Mini Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips (regular sized chocolate fries are as well heavy and sink in the batter) – 100 grams

Staff of life Machine Settings – Light Color, 2 lbs, Cake/Quick Bread
Unplug your bread machine and remove the bread pan from the bread machine.
Soften the butter in the microwave.
Add milk, butter, vanilla excerpt & eggs into a large mixing bowl. Mix together and and so add dry out ingredients. Stir ingredients until fully mixed. For best results, use a whisk or electric hand mixer (but for but a couple of minutes). So mix in the chocolate chips with a big spoon. FYI – Premixing the ingredients before adding batter to the staff of life pan helps to preclude modest flour "clumps" in the finished cake. See tips below.
Cascade the premixed concoction into the bread pan.
Put the staff of life pan (with all of the ingredients) back into the bread machine, shut the breadstuff machine lid and then plug in the bread automobile.
Enter the correct bread car settings ( Block/Quick Bread , Calorie-free Color, 2 lb.) and press the start button. FYI – Before making this recipe, please read the tips department beneath for more than information regarding the cake & sweet "quick bread" setting. The setting may be chosen "quick staff of life", "quick bread/cake", "cake", etc. This setting lasts for roughly 1:40-one:55 hours (and you lot volition run across this time in your car's electronic display panel). Notwithstanding, some manufacturers employ the "quick bread" setting name for rapid sandwich-type breads that use yeast (and not for cake & quick staff of life recipes that apply baking powder/soda). This "quick bread" sandwich bread setting lasts for but fifty-threescore minutes (which is not long enough for a cake recipe and your cake will be undercooked!!). This setting tin exist very confusing… but the tips section beneath volition help yous to find the right setting to use on your machine. Y'all need to enter the correct cake setting used by your SPECIFIC bread motorcar model or the cake could be under or overcooked. Do non use any settings designed for yeast-based recipes (run into your manual) .
When the bread machine has finished baking the cake, unplug the bread auto, remove the bread pan and place it on a wooden cutting board. Apply oven mitts when removing the bread pan because information technology volition be very hot!
After removing the breadstuff pan from the bread machine, you lot should let the cake stay inside the warm bread pan on a wooden cutting board for 10 minutes (equally this finishes the baking process) before you remove the cake from the breadstuff pan. Wear oven mitts.
After the ten minute "cooldown", you should remove the block from the breadstuff pan and place the cake on a wire cooling rack to finish cooling. Utilise oven mitts when removing the staff of life.
You should allow the cake to completely absurd before cutting. This can take upwardly to 1-2 hours. Otherwise, the cake will break (crumble) more than easily when cutting.

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