Made this for CNY eve dinner. Was initially a little concern as the batter was slightly watery but it turned out well in the end. Will definitely make this again. Cut out tiger stencil on a piece of paper then sieved some icing sugar for the outline.
Adapted from Ina's recipe found here.
Ingredients
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for pans
2 cups sugar
3/4 cups good cocoa powder
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp kosher salt
1 cup buttermilk, shaken
1/2 cup vegetable oil
2 extra-large eggs, at room temperature
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 cup freshly brewed hot coffee
Method
1. Preheat the oven to 180C.
2. Grease 8-inch round cake and line bottom with parchment paper, then butter and flour the pans.
3. In a bowl, sift the flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder and salt.
4. In another bowl, combine the buttermilk, oil, eggs, and vanilla. With the mixer on low speed, slowly add the wet ingredients to the dry. With mixer still on low, add the coffee and stir just to combine, scraping the bottom of the bowl with a rubber spatula.
5. Pour the batter into greased cake tin and bake for 35 to 40 minutes, until a cake tester comes out clean. Cool in the pans for 30 minutes, then turn them out onto a cooling rack and cool completely before decorating cake with chocolate ganache.
Fancy a slice anyone?? :)
2 comments:
Yum the chocolate! Delicious cake and great tiger stencil :)
Hey Lia Chen, i'm glad that everyone liked the cake too :)
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