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Classic Fudgy Chocolate Cake
Ingredients
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- 33⅓ g bittersweet chocolate
- 41⅔ g unsalted butter
Preheat the oven to 180 C or 356 F. Melt the unsalted butter and dark chocolate in a large bowl.
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- ⅛ tsp vanilla extract
Stir in the vanilla extract
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- 41⅔ g flour
- ½ tsp baking powder
- 11⅔ g unsweetened cocoa powder
- 39⅛ g sugar
Leave the chocolate mixture to cool whilst you mix the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and sugar together in a separate bowl.
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- ⅔ eggs
When the chocolate mixture is room temperate, gradually add the eggs until they are well stirred in.
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Gradually add the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients, the mixture should resemble a thick-ish paste.
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Pour the cake batter into two greased cake tins and bake for half an hour.
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Poke a skewer or thin knife into the centre of one of the cakes to check if it is ready. If it comes out with mixture on put them back in for 7 mins. If it comes out clean then remove them from their tins and leave to cool.
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- 25 g butter
- 25 g confectioner’s sugar
- 6⅔ g Dutch-process cocoa powder
- ⅛ tbsp water
While the cake is cooling make the icing: combine the water, icing sugar, butter and cocoa powder in a bowl and blend into a paste.
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When the cakes have cooled spread half the icing on top of each cake. Place them on top of each other and add any decoration that you want.
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Enjoy (goes very well with vanilla ice cream)
Enjoy your meal!
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