Five-Spice Chocolate Cake

Name: Five-Spice Chocolate Cake
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 1 h 25 min
Total time: 1 h 40 min
Yield: Serves 6 to 8
Ingredients: 1 cup (250 ml) buttermilk, at room temperature; ½ cup (125 ml) strongly brewed hot coffee; 1 teaspoon baking soda; 1 teaspoon baking powder; 2 cups (250 g) all-purpose flour; Powdered sugar for dusting; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 2 cups (400 g) sugar, plus extra for dusting pan; ½ cup (60 g) semi-sweet chocolate chips; 2 large eggs, at room temperature; ½ teaspoon salt; 4 teaspoons five-spice powder; 6 oz (175 g) bittersweet chocolate, chopped

Preparation info

Serves
6 to 8

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
1 hr 40

Appears in

Katie Chin's Everyday Chinese Cookbook

By Katie Chin

Published 2016

About

My pastry chef friend Theresa does it again! She contributed the fantastic Coconut Cake with Mango Sauce recipe to my last cookbook (Everyday Thai Cooking—Tuttle), and now she brings us this exotic Five-Spice Chocolate Cake. Moist, rich and sultry, this cake is to die for. Top with ginger cream or some French vanilla ice cream, and you’ll be in heav

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