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DARK CHOCOLATE TRAY CAKE

Ingredients

500 ml Cake Flour
500 ml Sugar
Pinch salt
5 ml Bicarbonate of soda
125 g Butter
250 ml Water
125 ml Oil
125 ml Cocoa powder
2 Extra large eggs
125 ml Buttermilk

ICING:
75 g Butter
30 ml Cocoa powder, sifted
45 ml Buttermilk
5 ml Vanilla essence
375 ml Icing sugar
200 g Dark chocolate, melted

Method

  1. Preheat oven to 180°C.
  2. Prepare a 30 x 35 x 5cm baking tray by spraying it with Spray & Cook.
  3. Heat butter, water, oil and cocoa. Boil and mix. Allow to cool slightly.
  4. Sift flour, sugar, salt and bicarbonate of soda into a bowl.
  5. Pour the heated butter, water, oil and cocoa mixture over the flour mixture and mix lightly.
  6. Whisk the eggs and buttermilk together. Add to the flour mixture and fold together very lightly.
  7. Pour batter into the tray and bake for ± 25 minutes.
  8. Turn out onto cooling rack.
  9. Cool for 15 minutes before icing OR cool and ice in tray.

ICING:

  1. Melt butter – remove from heat, and stir in the cocoa powder.
  2. Stir in the buttermilk and vanilla essence.
  3. Sift the icing sugar and stir into the above mixture.
  4. Pour icing over the partially cooled cake.
  5. Cut the cake into squares once icing has set and place on greaseproof paper.
  6. Spoon melted chocolate into a greased proof paper piping bag. Fold down top. Snipping off the tip of the bag and pipe threads of chocolate over the icing.

TIPS:

A nice and easy cake that can be cut into squares and sold separately at bus stations or schools.