Chocolate Mango Cake
"One of the signs of living in the tropics - a collection of mango recipes! I suspect this one will be made very soon."
photo by Ambervim
- Ready In:
- 1hr
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Yields:
-
1 cake
ingredients
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 1⁄2 cups self raising flour
- 60 g butter
- 4 tablespoons cocoa
- 1 1⁄4 cups mango puree
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 eggs
- 1⁄2 cup buttermilk
directions
- Grease and line 2 sandwich tins.
- Sift sugar and flour into a bowl.
- Place butter,cocoa and puree into a saucepan.
- Stir over low heat until just boiling.Cool.
- Whisk soda and eggs into buttermilk.
- Add to dry ingredients with puree mixture.
- Mix well and pour into tins.
- Bake at 180C for 30mins or cooked.
- Stand 5mins. In tins, turn out onto cake coolers to cool.
- When cold fill with whipped cream and mango slices.
- Dust top with icing sugar.
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Reviews
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This recipe makes excellent cupcakes - very tender & moist. I put white whipped frosting on the cupcakes and they were a big hit with my family. I will make these again. -
Another surprise! The mango is a nice back note to the chocolate and makes this a VERY moist cake. It rose quite nicely.
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Missy Wombat
Australia
I'm an ex-pat NZer living in the tropical Top End of Australia. Which makes it a perfect place to make homemade bread and summer recipes all year around. I experiment on my 3 kids who have grown up trying new Zaar recipes every other day and they are thriving.
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