Devil's Food Cake
Ingredients
1¼ cups (175g) flour
½ cup (60g) cocoa powder
1 tsp (5ml) bicarbonate of soda
¼ tsp baking powder
½ tsp salt
60g butter
1½ cups (300g) sugar
3 eggs, at room temperature
1 tsp (5ml) vanilla essence
½ cup (125ml) buttermilk, at room temperature
½ cup (125ml) strong coffee, cool
Chocolate Ganache
1½ cups (375ml) cream
350g dark chocolate, chopped
Method
Grease two 23cm cake tins
Sift all dry ingredients into a bowl
Cream together butter and sugar until pale
Slowly mix in remaining wet ingredients
Slowly mix in dry ingredients
Divide batter between the two cake tins
Bake for 30 minutes at 180°C
Leave to cool for 10 minutes then turn out of tins and set aside to cool completely
Ganache
In a saucepan, heat the cream over a medium heat
Remove from heat and add chocolate
Leave chocolate to melt for a few minutes and then stir to a smooth gloss
Set aside to cool completely
Once ganache and cake are cool, ice and serve...