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Ultimate Chocolate Cake
The best chocolate Birthday cake ever
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Details
- ⏲️ Prep time: 30 mins
- 🍳 Cook time: 45 mins - 1 hour
- 🍽️ Servings: 12
Ingredients
- 200g chopped dark chocolate
- 200g butter
- 175g self raising flour
- 25g cocoa powder
- 200g light brown sugar
- 100ml buttermilk
- 3 eggs
- For the ganache:
- 100g chopped dark chocolate
- 1tbspn set honey
- 150ml double cream
- For filling:
- 1 pot Oshi Chocolate Hodl Butter
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 160c or 140 with fan / gas mark 3, grease a 20cm wide/ 7cm deep tin
- Melt together the chocolate and butter gently on a low heat, put aside
- Mix the flour, sugar & cocoa powder in a large bowl
- Whisk the eggs well together with the buttermilk and stir into the flour, add the melted chocolate and butter last
- Beat for 5 minutes and pour into the cake tin, bake for 45 mins then test with a skewer, the cake is ready when it comes out clean and not sticky
- Make the ganache in the mean time by melting together the chocolate, honey and cream
- Decorate the cake when everything has cooled, slice horizontally in half; fill with Hodl Butter and cover the outside with the ganache