Chocolate Buttermilk Cake

Buttercream and sour cream make delicious soft and moist cakes.  This chocolate cake is quick and easy to prepare.

makes 16-20 squares (or you can make in round or preferred tins)

60g dark chocolate chopped
120g butter
170g brown sugar
1 egg
220g self raising flour
1/2  tsp bicarbonate of soda
25g cocoa
165ml/g of buttermilk

Preheat oven to 180C

Melt the chocolate and butter for about 1 minute on high in a microwave. Stir to ensure all the chocolate is melted.

Stir the sugar and egg into the chocolate mixture.

Mix the flour, soda and cocoa together and stir in half, then half the buttermilk and then the rest of the flour mixture, finishing with the buttermilk.

Spoon into a 20cm tin which has been lined with grease proof/baking parchment or brushed with butter and dusted with flour.

Cook at 180C for 30 mins approx.

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