Tuesday 10 November 2015

Death by Chocolate cake

I got this recipe from Edna- May and I have to say that it is the best chocolate cake I have EVER eaten, never mind baked. I place the recipe below exactly like she gave it to me.

Just a few notes on the below: I did use butter, I do not have margarine in the house. It was delicious! Also I did not use one of the fillings she named. In stead I made the icing double and used half in the middle and half on the top. The cake is not sweet at all (despite the 2 cups of sugar in the recipe) - so do not expect a sweet cake. It's more like a dark chocolate cake with the texture of red velvet cake.

DEATH BY CHOCOLATE


¼ cup Cocoa }*
½ cup oil }* * Heat together in saucepan
125g Margarine }*
1 cup water }*

2 cups Flour }
2 cups Sugar } Mix together in a large bowl

2 Eggs }#
½ cup Buttermilk }# Beat together lightly
1 tsp Bicarb }#
½ tsp Vanilla Essence }#

Pour * mixture over sugar and flour – mix in gently.
Add # to full mixture. Mix gently.
Grease two 20cm pans and line the base with baking paper (very important). Divide mixture between the two pans.
Bake at 160 – 180 °C for approx. 25 minutes. Test before removing from oven.
Cool for about 5 minutes then turn out onto wire rack – take care not to break the cakes!!

ICING

60ml Cocoa 60g Margarine
½ cup icing sugar 15ml Milk
Bring nearly to boil, beat well. Allow to cool, beat well again before pouring over the cake.


A few tips from my experience with this cake!

I found the best margarine to use is Wooden Spoon. In this recipe, it must be margarine and not butter (for the purists).
* ingredients shouldn’t be too hot otherwise the flour and sugar become a gluey mess!
Watch the icing mixture when warming the ingredients as well – it can become fudge very quickly.!
The fillings for this cake are endless:
Marmalade for orange flavour;
Strawberry jam filling serviced with cream and fresh strawberries – yummy.
Caramel is quite decadent;
Mixed berry jam filling serviced with cream and fresh berries – to die for!
Have fun and enjoy!

13 comments:

  1. That looks delicious. Butter is always better though ;)

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    1. Hi Tigger - would love to know who you are or read your blog if you do blog

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  2. Lyk BAIE lekker, gaan sommer die naweek probeer. Dankie dat jy resep deel.xx

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  3. looks so divine! I am quite a sucker for a really good chocolate cake.

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  4. Oh heck, this is not what I want to see early in the morning. How am I to get through the rest of the day without craving a piece of this yummy cake?
    Looks delish

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  5. Yum - I love putting buttermilk into my baked goods - always makes it moist.

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    1. In this case it gives it that red velvet type texture - heaven

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  6. Wow, this looks delicious. Will definitely be trying it out.

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  7. Oooh this looks so good! Seems a bit similar to Devil's Food Cake that I make from a Lynn Bedford Hall recipe. I find that cakes which contain buttermilk are often the best, I don't know why

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    1. I also love cakes that contain buttermilk. I have no idea where her recipe comes from - may well be the same one or adapted

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  8. This looks so delicious...I will pass it on to B...she is the one with the baking superpower in our home.

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