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Magnolia Kitchen signature chocolate cake with dark chocolate ganache
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Ingredients
Dark chocolate ganache
- 150 g pouring (whipping) cream
- 600 g dark chocolate (50% cocoa), cut into pieces
Chocolate cake
- 185 g salted butter, softened, cut into pieces, plus extra to grease
- 275 g plain flour
- 450 g brown sugar
- 90 g Dutch cocoa powder
- 2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 280 g warm water
- 90 g canola oil
- 1 ½ tsp instant coffee (see Tips)
- 3 eggs
- 1 ½ tsp natural vanilla extract
- 195 g buttermilk
- Nutrition
- per 1 slice
- Calories
- 2207.5 kJ / 525.6 kcal
- Protein
- 7 g
- Carbohydrates
- 51.5 g
- Fat
- 33.2 g
- Saturated Fat
- 17.6 g
- Fibre
- 2.1 g
- Sodium
- 273.2 mg
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