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Chocolate Bar-One cake

Recipe Courtesy - @SnowflakeSA

Ingredients
  • 45ml cocoa powder
  • 80ml hot water
  • 150g butter or margarine, softened
  • 250ml (200g) sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • 500ml (280g) Snowflake Cake Wheat Flour
  • 15ml Snowflake Baking Powder
  • 3ml bicarbonate of soda
  • 2ml salt
  • 250ml buttermilk or plain yoghurt

For the icing
  • 55g Bar One, cut into pieces
  • 100g dark chocolate, coarsely chopped
  • 60ml fresh cream
  • 45ml butter or margarine


Method
  1. Mix cocoa powder and water until smooth and set aside to cool slightly.
  2. Cream butter and sugar together. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition until light and creamy. Add cocoa powder mixture.
  3. Sift flour, baking powder, bicarb and salt together and add, alternately with buttermilk, to creamed mixture.
  4. Spoon mixture into a greased 23cm loose-bottom round cake pan. Bake in a preheated oven at 180°C for about 50 mins. Leave in pan for a few minutes before turning out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
  5. To make the icing: Mix all the ingredients together in a small saucepan. Place over low heat until melted. Spoon over top of cake and leave to set. Decorate with extra chopped Bar One.


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