Chocolate Cake

Name: Chocolate Cake
Yield: Serves 10
Ingredients: icing (confectioners’) sugar, for dusting; raspberries, to serve; ⅛ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda (baking soda); 65 g (2½ oz) unsweetened cocoa powder; 1¼ cups chocolate mousse, for filling; ¼ teaspoon salt; 280 g (10 oz/1¼ cups) caster (superfine) sugar; 40 g (1½ oz) potato flour; 2 eggs; 110 g (3¾ oz) unsalted butter, cut into 3 cm (1¼ inch) cubes, softened; 125 g (4½ oz) plain (all-purpose) flour; 150 ml (5 fl oz) buttermilk; ½ teaspoon baking powder

Preparation info

Serves
10

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Bourke Street Bakery

By Paul Allam and David McGuinness

Published 2009

About

Ingredients

2 eggs
150 ml (5 fl oz) buttermilk

Snack
Cake
Dessert
Baking
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C (350°F/Gas 4). Grease two 20 cm (8 inch) round spon