Bake And Decorate: Family Chocolate Cake Recipe

Ingredients

• Fiona Cairns’ Family Chocolate Cake
• Very closely adapted from Bake and Decorate (instructions are mine but ingredients are all hers, with exception of chocolate in icing)
• Cake:
• 3 1/2 oz 50-60% cacao semisweet chocolate, finely chopped
• 6 T boiling water
• 1 1/3 cups AP flour
• 1 t baking powder
• 1 t baking soda
• 1 cup almond flour
• 3/4 cup unsalted butter, softened
• 1 1/3 cups packed brown sugar
• 1 t vanilla
• 3 large eggs, lightly beaten
• 1/2 cup buttermilk
• Icing
• 3 oz semisweet 50-60% cacao chocolate (can use up to 72% cacao if you prefer), chopped
• 3 T unsalted butter
• 1 T golden syrup (Lyle’s Golden Syrup is what we would use in the States)
• 2 T packed brown sugar
• 1/2 cup heavy cream
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