Xtra Moist Chocolate Cake |
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Prep Time: 0 Minutes Cook Time: 35 Minutes |
Ready In: 35 Minutes Servings: 6 |
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For the chocoholics and those with a sweet tooth (like me). A one layer cake with a moist, sticky, chocolaty frosting. Y-U-M-M-Y!!!!! Ingredients:
cake |
500 ml (2 cups)cake flour |
350 ml (1 1/2 cup)sugar |
pinch of salt |
125 g (1/2 cup) butter or margarine |
125 ml (1/2 cup) cocoa powder |
5 ml (1 teaspoon) baking soda |
125 ml (1/2 cup) buttermilk |
2 eggs |
250 ml (1 cup) water |
frosting |
75 ml (1/4 cup + 1 heaped tablespoon) butter or margarine |
75 ml (1/4 cup + 1 tablespoon) buttermilk |
30 ml (2 heaped tablespoons) cocoa powder |
375 ml (1 1/2 cup) icing sugar |
5 ml (1 teaspoon)vanilla essence |
Directions:
1. Sift the flour, sugan and salt together.
2. Heat up the butter, water, oil and cocoa.
3. Let it cool down a bit.
4. Mix the buttermilk and baking soda.
5. Beat the eggs into the buttermilk mixture.
6. Mix the flour and buttermilk mixtures together.
7. Bake in a square baking tin at 200 degrees C (390 deg F) for 20 minutes.
8. Frosting:
9. Heat up the butter, buttermilk and cocoa.
10. Bring to the boil.
11. Remove from stove.
12. Sift in the icing sugar while stirring.
13. Stirr in the vanilla essence.
14. Pour hot sauce over hot cake.
15. Let it cool down in the fridge.
16. Serve.
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