Chocolate buttermilk cake
28/2/2012
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Ready in 1 hour 15 minutes, makes 1 cake. This keeps well and the results are stunning
Ingredients
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| 1 to dust | Cocoa powder |
| 115 g | Butter |
| 125 g | Dark chocolate |
| 1 cup | Sugar |
| 1 tsp | Vanilla essence/extract |
| 1¾ cups | Buttermilk |
| 3 | Eggs |
| 1¾ cups | Plain flour |
| 1 tsp | Baking soda |
| ½ tsp | Salt |
| ½ tsp | Baking powder |
Icing
| 100 g | Butter |
| 100 g | Dark chocolate |
Directions
- Heat oven to 180 degC. Grease a 22cm tin. Dust with cocoa.
- Heat butter and chocolate carefully in a saucepan stirring on medium temperature. Do not overheat. Take off heat, add sugar and vanilla straightaway while mix is hot.
- Whisk in buttermilk and eggs. Add dry ingredients, whisk until just smooth. Pour batter into tin.
- Bake for 40 minutes or until skewer comes out clean. Turn out on wire rack to cool.
- Make icing. Heat butter and dark chocolate together in microwave, stirring every 30 seconds until melted. Pour over cooled cake.
- The buttermilk in this cake makes it very moist and it gets better the day after you make it.
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