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Ultimate Chocolate Cake

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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

  1. Preheat the oven to 160c or 140 with fan / gas mark 3, grease a 20cm wide/ 7cm deep tin
  2. Melt together the chocolate and butter gently on a low heat, put aside
  3. Mix the flour, sugar & cocoa powder in a large bowl
  4. Whisk the eggs well together with the buttermilk and stir into the flour, add the melted chocolate and butter last
  5. 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
  6. Make the ganache in the mean time by melting together the chocolate, honey and cream
  7. Decorate the cake when everything has cooled, slice horizontally in half; fill with Hodl Butter and cover the outside with the ganache