Chocolate Rum Cake
- Ready In:
- 1hr
- Ingredients:
- 13
- Yields:
-
1 cake
ingredients
- 200 g flour
- 25 g cocoa
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 200 g light muscovado sugar
- 100 ml sunflower oil
- 150 ml milk
- 3 eggs
- 1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla essence
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FOR THE SYRUP
- 100 g granulated sugar
- 6 tablespoons dark rum
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FOR THE TOPPING
- 400 ml double cream
- cocoa, for dusting
directions
- Heat the oven to 325*F.
- Butter and line a 9 inch round cake tin or spring form tin with parchment paper.
- Sift together the flour, cocoa, baking powder, salt and muscobado sugar into a bowl.
- In a measuring jug, combine the sunflower oil and milk.
- Separate the eggs, reserving the whites and adding the yolks to the liquid ingredients.
- Mix the egg yolks, vanilla, milk and oil with a fork.
- Add the liquid ingrediends to the dry ingredients and mix with a wooden spoon to a smooth, slack batter.
- Beat the egg whites to stiff peaks and fold into the cake batter.
- Pour the mixture into the prepared pan.
- Set in oven and bake for 45 minutes until tests done with a skewer.
- Measure the sugar for the syrup and 200ml (7 fl oz) of cold water and set over a low heat until the sugar dissolves.
- Bring to the boil and draw off the heat.
- Add the rum.
- Prick the surface of the hot cake with a fork and spoon the syrup over it.
- Leave in the baking tin until completely cold Turn the cake layer out, peel off the baking paper and set on a serving platter.
- Whip the cream to soft peaks and swirl over the top of the cake layer.
- Chill until firm-at least 2 hours.
- Dust with cocoa and serve with the red fruit sauce.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
MarieRynr
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