Sour-Cream Chocolate Cake with Sour-Cream Icing

Name: Sour-Cream Chocolate Cake with Sour-Cream Icing
Yield: Serves 6–8
Ingredients: 80 g milk chocolate; 80 g dark chocolate; 75 g unsalted butter; 125 ml sour cream; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 1 tablespoon golden syrup; 300 g golden icing sugar, sieved (plus more if needed); ½ teaspoon hot water; 200 g soft unsalted butter; ½ teaspoon salt; ¼ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda; ¾ teaspoon baking powder; 1½ teaspoons vanilla extract; 2 large eggs; 150 ml sour cream; 40 g best cocoa; 200 g caster sugar; 200 g plain flour

Preparation info

Serves
6–8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

How to be a Domestic Goddess

By Nigella Lawson

Published 1998

About

For some reason, this is the only chocolate cake my daughter likes. Obviously, she has more sophisticated tastes than her mother.

It comes by way of, but not entirely from, the great American cake-maker Rose Levy Beranbaum, and the sour cream provides a wonderful mouth-filling smoothness.

Ingredients

For the cake

200 g plain flour
200 g caster sugar
¾

Dessert
Vegetarian
Cookies

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C/gas mark 4.

Combine the flour, sugar, baking powder, bicarb and salt in a large bowl. Then, using an electric mixer, add the butter. In a wide-mouthed measuring jug, whisk together the cocoa, sour cream, eggs and vanilla, then slowly add this cocoa mix