BAR ONE CHOCOLATE CAKE

This delicious Bar One Chocolate Cake Recipe is one of the most decadent cakes I have ever tasted!

Ingredients


Cake:
45ml cocoa powder
80ml boiling water
150g butter or margarine
250ml sugar 
3 extra-large eggs
500ml cake flour
15ml baking powder
3ml bicarbonate of soda
2ml salt
250ml buttermilk or plain unflavoured yoghurt


Icing:
60g bar one chocolate bar
100g dark baking chocolate
60ml fresh cream
45ml butter or margarine


Method


Cake

• Mix the cocoa powder and boiling water until smooth and set aside to cool off slightly.
• Cream the butter and sugar together well. 
• Add the eggs, one at a time and beat well until light and creamy. 
• Add the cocoa powder mixture to the egg mixture.
• Sift the dry ingredients and add alternately with buttermilk to creamed mixture.
• Spoon into a greased and lined 24cm loose bottomed cake pan. 
• Bake in a preheated oven at 180 °C for about 60 minutes. 
• Allow cake to stand for a few minutes before removing from tin.
• Cake must be cool before icing.

Icing

• Mix all the icing ingredients together in a small heavy-based saucepan. 
• Place over low heat and heat until melted completely. 
• Spoon over top of cake and leave to set.

Makes 1 large cake