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Vegetarian

Ingredients

For the Dessert

100 g Light Muscovado Sugar

125 g Plain Flour

75 g Dark Chocolate (Roughly Chopped)

1 tsp Vanilla Extract

1 Pinch Sea Salt

135 g Unsalted Butter (Cubed)

50 g Cocoa Powder

75 ml Buttermilk

3 Eggs

75 g Caster Sugar

1 tbsp Instant Coffee Granules

75 g Milk Chocolate (Roughly Chopped)

75 ml Water (Boiled)

1 tsp Baking Powder

For the Icing

350 ml Double Cream

1 tbsp Unsalted Butter

1 Pinch Sea Salt

½ tsp Vanilla Extract

200 g Milk Chocolate
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Double Chocolate Fudge Cake

by Dan

Serves 10

Total 50 minutes

Oven Temp 170 °C - 40 minutes

Difficulty Super Easy

Chef Tarunima Sinha

Method

  1. Melt the butter and chocolate in a pan on a low heat.

  2. In a large bowl add the flour, baking powder, salt and cocoa powder, caster sugar and muscovado sugar.

  3. In a small jug mix the buttercream, eggs and vanilla extract.

  4. Boil 75ml of water and stir in the instant coffee.

  5. Pour the hot chocolate mixture and hot coffee into the flour mix and fold in with a spatula. Next add the buttermilk mixture. Gently fold until it all comes together.

  6. Pour the mixture into a greased cake tin and bake for 40 minutes. Cool the in the tin for 10 minutes then turn out onto a wire rack and leave to cool completely.

  7. To make the icing heat the cream in a pan on a low heat (do not boil). Pour the hot cream over the chocolate leave for 5 minutes then stir until glossy and smooth. Once melted, stir in the butter, vanilla and salt and mix until the butter is melted. Keep at room temperature until it thickens then spread over the top and sides of the cake.