Buttermilk Chocolate Cake With Fudge Icing
"This is from Saveur and looked to die for. This is a great cake for 2 people or a small crowd as it makes a 8 inch cake"
- Ready In:
- 55mins
- Ingredients:
- 14
- Yields:
-
1 cake
ingredients
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CAKE
- 2 ounces unsweetened chocolate, chopped
- 5 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
- 1 teaspoon unsalted butter, softened
- 1 1⁄4 cups sifted flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 egg yolks
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FROSTING
- confectioners' sugar, sifted
- 5 tablespoons cocoa
- 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
- 5 tablespoons hot freshly brewed coffee
- vanilla extract
directions
- Preheat oven to 350º. Melt chocolate in a small heatproof bowl set over a small pot of gently simmering water over medium-low heat, stirring occasionally with a wooden spoon. Remove bowl from heat and set aside until chocolate is cool. Meanwhile, grease an 8" square cake pan with 1 teaspoons of the butter and set aside. Sift flour and salt together in a small bowl and set aside. Stir baking soda into buttermilk in another small bowl and set aside.
- Beat sugar and the remaining 5 tablespoons butter together in a large mixing bowl with an electric mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes. Beat in egg yolks, then add melted chocolate and beat until thoroughly combined. Add one-third of the flour mixture, then one-third of the buttermilk mixture, beating well after each addition. Repeat process to use all of both mixtures, then pour batter into prepared pan and bake until a toothpick inserted in center of cake comes out clean, 40–50 minutes. Transfer cake to a rack to cool in pan, then invert onto a cake plate.
- For the frosting: Sift confectioners' sugar and cocoa together in a medium bowl. Stir in butter, then coffee, then vanilla, mixing well with a wooden spoon after each addition, until frosting is smooth. Ice top and sides of cake with frosting.
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