Dawn's Chocolate Spice Cake
Sometimes we make this as a cake, sometimes a traybake, but it's always good fun to see if people can guess what's in it. It's not spicy - the cayenne pepper just adds a little heat. Using soured cream keeps it nice and moist.
Ingredients
Serves: 24
- For the cake
- 400g caster sugar
- 250g plain flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 225g butter
- 250ml water
- 3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
- 120ml soured cream
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
- 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- For the icing
- 50g butter, melted
- 2 heaped tablespoons cocoa powder
- 250g icing sugar
- 4 tablespoons milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Method
Prep:15min ›
Cook:30min ›
Extra time:30min cooling ›
Ready in:1hr15min
- Preheat oven to 180 C / Gas 4. Grease and flour a 9 x 17.5cm cake tin.
- In a large bowl, combine sugar, flour and salt. Set aside.
- In a small saucepan, bring 225g butter, 250ml water and 3 tablespoons cocoa to the boil. Remove from heat. Add to flour mixture and mix until smooth.
- In a separate bowl, mix soured cream, eggs, bicarbonate of soda and cayenne pepper. Add to the cake mixture. Mix well. Pour mixture into the prepared cake tin.
- Bake for 20 to 30 minutes, or until skewer inserted into centre of cake comes out clean. Allow to cool.
- For the icing: Melt 50g butter and stir in 2 heaped tablespoons cocoa. Add 250g icing sugar, 4 tablespoons milk and teaspoon of vanilla extract. Mix until smooth and free of lumps.
- Spread icing on the cooled cake. Slice and serve.
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Very good cake like brownies. The only thing I would change is instead of adding water, I would add cold coffee and instead of 1 tsp of cayenne pepper I would decrease it to just 1/2 tsp. The coffee flavor adds just enough mocha that turns this into a terrific authentic mexican chocolate flavor - 07 Sep 2006 (Review from Allrecipes US | Canada)
I was hosting Thanksgiving this year, and found out pretty last-minute that there was a pumpkin shortage, and was really disappointed... until I found this awesome recipe! I was thinking to myself "Self, how great could a cake really be?" and preceded to make and put this thin, none-too-special-looking cake in the over... and, not expecting too much, I took a bite, and melted. This cake is amazing, and everyone LOVED it. (I even had to hide it when my fiance's band members came over, because darn it, I want awesome chocolate cake for breakfast tomorrow!) - 27 Nov 2009 (Review from Allrecipes US | Canada)
Very moist, very tasty chocolate cake that has a warmth but there is no way it has any hint of pepper taste. This is a really fantastic cake. The frosting though was runny and I had too add another cup or more of powdered sugar and another Tbl of cocoa and a couple more T of margarine to get it to spreading consistency. Thanks this was a great cake! - 18 Jun 2008 (Review from Allrecipes US | Canada)
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