Saturday, February 20, 2010

This awesome chocolate cake is the simpliest i've come across. I found it in Philip Johnson's book Ecco 2, and Philip in turn aquired the recipe from Pamela Lawson, who runs an extremely tasty pantry in Brisbane.

Ingredients

  • 1 cup water
  • 2 cups plain flour, sifted
  • 2 cups caster sugar
  • 2 whole eggs
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 1/4 teaspoons bicarbonate of soda
  • 3 tablespoons cocoa
  • 3/4 cup sour cream
  • 80g unsalted butter
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt

Method

Preheat oven to 160C. Grease 24cm springform tin.

Place all ingredients in electric mixer and combine on low for 2 minutes. Give it a scrape and then on high for 2 mins. Pour in to springform tin. bake for 50 - 60 minutes or until a skewer comes out of the center clean.

Turn out and cool on rack.

This cake is great with a chocolate ganache on top.

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