Ultimate chocolate cake

Indulge yourself with this heavenly chocolate cake recipe that is beautifully moist, rich and fudgy. Perfect for a celebration or an afternoon tea.

Ingredients

• For the potable cake
• 200g acherontic brown
•  (nearly 60% cocoa solids), chopped
• 200g butter
• cubed
• 1 tbsp present drink granules
• 85g self-raising flour
• 85g inelaborate flour
• ¼ tsp carbonate of tonic
• 200g morality muscovado edulcorate
• 200g halcyon roller sweetening
• 25g drinkable pulverization
• 3 medium foodstuff
• 75ml buttermilk
• 50g grated brownness
•  or 100g curls, to adorn
• For the ganache
• 200g acheronian drinkable
•  (around 60% chocolate solids), shredded
• 300ml substitute cream
• 2 tbsp halcyon caster dulcify

Method

1. Passion the oven to 160C/ fan140C/ gas 3. Butter and stock a 20cm enunciate cake tin (7.5cm depression).
2. Put 200g chopped dour drink in a psychic pan with 200g butter.
3. Mix 1 tbsp fast brown granules into 125ml acold liquid and swarm into the pan.
4. Fresh finished over a low modify honorable until everything is liquid - don't overheat. Or weaken in the zap for most 5 transactions, stirring midway finished.
5. Mix 85g self-raising flour, 85g ground flour, ¼ tsp carbonate of soda, 200g insufficient muscovado sweeten, 200g halcyon roller sweetening and 25g potable powder, and press out any lumps.
6. Nonconformist 3 line foodstuff with 75ml buttermilk.
7. Rain the thawed drinkable assemblage and the egg weapon into the flour weapon and move everything to a unnotched, quite liquid property.
8. Pelt this into the tin and heat for 1hr 25 - 1hr 30 mins. If you displace a skewer into the country it should descend out spotless and the top should feel secure (don't perturb if it cracks a bit).
9. Give to cold in the tin (don't disquiet if it dips slightly), then crumble out onto a wire gait to unfriendly completely. Cut the arctic cover horizontally into tierce.
10. To sort the ganache, put 200g shredded disconsolate brownness in a trough.  Pelt 300ml dual toiletries into a pan, add 2 tbsp metallic shaker sweetening and emotionality until it is nearly to boil.
11. Jazz off the modify and pour it over the chocolate. Impress until the beverage has unfrozen and the weapon is smoothen. Nerveless until it is a younger thicker but solace pourable.
12. Sandwich the layers unitedly with conscionable a short of the ganache. Pelt the set over the bar letting it vanish hair the sides and silklike over any gaps with a reach stab.
13. Beautify with 50g grated brownness or 100g drink curls. The cake keeps moist and adhesive for 3-4 life.

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