Chocolate Bar-One Cake
Preparation Time: Approximately 15 minutes
Cook Time: 50 minutes
Serves: Makes 1 cake
Description:Whip up this deadly chocolate creation – it’s always a crowd pleaser.
Ingredients
45ml cocoa powder
80ml hot water
150g butter or margarine, softened
200g sugar
3 eggs
280g Snowflake Cake Wheat Flour
15ml Snowflake Baking Powder
3ml bicarbonate of soda
2ml salt
250ml buttermilk or plain yoghurt
For the icing:
55g Bar One, cut into pieces
100g dark chocolate, coarsely chopped
60ml fresh cream
45ml butter or margarine
Method
- Mix cocoa powder and water until smooth and set aside to cool slightly.
- Cream butter and sugar together. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition until light and creamy. Add cocoa powder mixture.
- Sift flour, baking powder, bicarb and salt together and add, alternately with buttermilk, to creamed mixture.
- Spoon mixture into a greased 23cm loose-bottom round cake pan. Bake in a preheated oven at 180°C for about 50 mins. Leave in pan for a few minutes before turning out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
- To make the icing: Mix all the ingredients together in a small saucepan. Place over low heat until melted. Spoon over top of cake and leave to set. Decorate with extra chopped Bar One.
