Ultimate Chocolate Cake
Ultimate Chocolate Cake
Ingredients
- 4 cups cake flour
- 1 & 1/3 cups cocoa powder
- 3 & 1/2 cups white sugar
- 1 cup vegetable oil
- 1 & 1/2 cups buttermilk
- 1 & 1/2 cups hot coffee (1 & 1/2 cups hot water + 2 Tablespoons coffee powder)
- 5 eggs
- 2 tsp bicarbonate of soda (baking soda)
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
- 3 tsp vanilla essence
* Eggs and buttermilk should be at room temperature. Not cold.
Chocolate ganache
- 1 cup heavy or whipping cream
- 5 cups finely chopped dark chocolate
*Add the 2 ingredients in a bowl then melt in a microwave or melt on the stove over simmering water.
Instructions
- In a large bowl add flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda , salt and cocoa powder. Whisk very well .
- In another large bowl add oil and sugar and mix . Then add vanilla and mix in one egg at a time . Don’t add all the eggs all at once .
- Pour in the buttermilk then mix . Take a sieve then sieve in the flour mixture into the wet ingredients. Mix just to combine the wet and dry ingredients together.
- Add the hot coffee. Then mix well but don’t over mix.
- Grease 2 baking tins (preferably 8inch )with oil or butter then line them with parchment paper .
- Divide the batter (mixture) equally in those 2 baking tins .
- Bake in a preheated oven at 170 Degrees Celsius for 60 minutes or until well baked.
*Baking time is longer because the batter(mixture) divided between the two tins is a lot.
Don’t open the oven while the cakes are not fully baked . Otherwise the cakes will collapse in the middle.
When the cakes have completely cooled off level them up by cutting off the top part . Then cut the cakes into halves,so that you end up with 4 cakes.
Layer the cakes and apply the chocolate ganache while it’s still warm.
Tips : Do not leave out the coffee, even if you don’t like it . The purpose of coffee is to intensify the chocolate flavour.
I used homemade buttermilk: 1 & 1/2 cups milk + 1 & 1/2 Tablespoons white vinegar. Let this mixture sit for 5 minutes before you use it.
