Summertime! This lovely chocolate cake is fudge. It has a nice bite because of the melted chocolate and it is topped with a soft buttercream and berries!
Ingredients:
- a box of strawberries
- a box of blueberries
- a box of raspberries
- a box of blackberries
- 75 grams of dark chocolate
- 3 dl water
- 90 grams cocoa powder
- 250 grams self-raising flour
- 500 grams sugar
- a pinch of salt
- 10 grams vanilla sugar
- 3,5 dl buttermilk
- 130 grams sunflower oil
- 3 eggs
- 250 grams powdered sugar
- 175 ml milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Method:
1. Boil the 3 dl of water. Solve the cocoa powder in it. Use good cocoa powder.
2. Keep on stirring until you see a chocolate paste.
3. Mix in a bowl the self-raising flour, the sugar and the pinch of salt. When this is a good mixed powder, add the vanilla sugar, the buttermilk, the oil and the eggs.
4. Add the chocolate paste in to the batter.
5. Let the batter rest for an hour.
6. Preheat the oven up to 180 degrees. Bake the cake for an hour and let it cool.
7. Melt the dark chocolate au bien marie and cover the cool cake with it. Wait until the chocolate has solidified.
8. Mix the powdered sugar, the milk and the vanilla into a moist paste. Cover the cake with the buttercream icing. It doesn't have to be neat. Just apply it, it will give your cake a way better look then when it's looking pretty.
9. Start by adding the blueberries and slowly fill up your cake.
