Old Fashioned Chocolate Cake | Nigella's Recipes | Nigella Lawson

Old Fashioned Chocolate Cake | Nigella's Recipes | Nigella Lawson

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If you're going to get started, this is the cake you should begin with. It is, for me, the essence of chocolate cake.

Keywords

  • Comfort
  • Indulgent
  • Sociable
  • Sweet
  • Birthdays
  • Nut Free
  • Chocolate
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Ingredients

  • 200 grams plain flour
  • 200 grams caster sugar
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
  • 40 grams best-quality cocoa powder
  • 175 grams soft unsalted butter
  • 2 large eggs
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 150 millilitres sour cream
  • 75 grams unsalted butter
  • 175 grams best quality dark chocolate (broken into small pieces)
  • 300 grams icing sugar
  • 1 tablespoon golden syrup
  • 125 millilitres sour cream
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • sugar flowers (optional)

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