This really does live up to it's name! It's a bit trickier to make than a regular chocolate cake and definitely more time consuming. And until AFTER I made this cake I had no idea what buttermilk was or whether we could get it in this country- so for every 1 cup of buttermilk that you're meant to use, you can use 1 cup of regular milk and 1 tablespoon of either vinegar or lemon juice (and let it sit for 10 minutes before using it).
220g butter
220g dark chocolate
6tsp coffee
160ml water
480g castor sugar
7tsp vegetable oil
125g self raising flour
125g plain flour
50g cocoa
1/2tsp baking soda
4 large eggs
110ml buttermilk
-Preheat the oven to 160deg C
-Melt butter, choc, coffee and water in a saucepan. When combined, remove from heat.
-Sift together flours, cocoa, sugar and soda. Make a well in the middle.
-Whisk together eggs, oil and buttermilk. Pour the chocolate mixture into the egg mixture and gently whisk.
-Pour wet mixture into the well in the dry ingredients. Mix well.
-Pour into greased cake tin (22cm round) and bake for approx 1h 45min. Leave in cake tin until completely cooled.
I put grated white chocolate on mine after using just a regular chocolate icing.
This was for Tom's birthday shout at work so I didn't get to try the cake- but there were no leftovers brought home which is a good sign! YUM!
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