BAR ONE CHOCOLATE CAKE

BAR ONE CHOCOLATE CAKE

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A Bar One cake is more than a chocolate cake. It oozes "Bar One" in every mouthful and exudes decadence as well as deliciously
over-the-top richness which promise to meet the most avid chocoholic's craving.
Yields: 22cm Cake
Ingredients:
45ml Cocoa Powder
80 ml Boiling Water
150 g unsalted Butter
250 ml White Sugar
3 Eggs, Extra Large
500 ml Cake Flour
15 ml Baking Powder
3 ml Bicarbonate of Soda
3 ml fine Salt
250 ml Plain Yoghurt
2x55g Bar One Chocolate, cut into chunks
CHOCOLATE SAUCE
1x 55g Bar One Chocolate
100g Dark Chocolate, we use Belgium
60 ml Cream
45g unsalted Butter
Method:
1) Mix cocoa powder in boiling water until smooth and allow slight cooling
2) Cream butter and sugar very well. Add eggs, one-at-a-time, beating well in-between. Then add cocoa mixture
3) Sift all your dry ingredients, add bar one chunks to this. Alternately, add sifted ingredients with yoghurt to the creamed mixture
4) Grease and line a 22cm loose-bottomed cake tin, spoon in cake mixture.
5) Bake in a pre-heated oven of 180˚C for about 1 hour.
6) While the cake is baking mix up all the sauce ingredients in a sauce pan over a low heat until completely melted.
7) One the cake is baked remove from the cake, place onto a cooling wrack. Using a skewer make holes all over the top of the cake, then pour over the warm sauce8) Leave over night covered in the fridge
CARAMEL SAUCE LAYER
(make the day of the cake baking)Ingredients:
200g Brown Sugar
250 ml Cream
40 g salted ButterMethod:
1) Caramelise the sugar over a low heat in a pan, add butter and then cream. Lightly simmer
2) Strain through a sieve and place into the fridge
WHIPPED CREAM LAYER
Ingredients:
250 ml Cream, whipped
ICINGPART one
Ingredients:
2x 55g Bar One Chocolate
100 g Dark Chocolate, we use Belgium
200 g pink and white Marshmallows
250 ml Cream
Method:
1) Place all the above ingredients into a big bowl and melt over a Bain Marie
PART two
Ingredients:
125g unsalted Butter
1 ½ cups sifted Icing Sugar
½ cup Cocoa powder
5 ml Vanilla Essence
Method:
Cream all the above ingredients togetherPart three
Mix Part one and part two together wellPutting the cake together
Cut the cake into three layer
2) Place a caramel layer and cream layer in-between the layers3) Finish with the above gooey Bar One Icing. Use a hot knife and take care in icing this. Decorate with Bar One chunks and marshmallows if wanted.Bron: Jackie Cameron Head ChefGeplaas deur: Annelore Von Solms Joubert 

BAR ONE CHOCOLATE CAKE 
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Ingredients:225g butter
125ml cocoa
5ml coffee powder
250ml water
2 eggs
300ml sugar
10ml vanilla
450ml self-raising flour
190ml cream
Topping:
2x58g Bar One chocolates, cut up
50g dark chocolate
100ml cream
5ml butter
Method:
Combine the butter, cocoa, coffee and water in a pot and heat gently until melted. Cool slightly and set aside.Beat eggs and sugar, adding vanilla until light and fluffy. Add sifted flour and cream and mix well. While beating gradually add the cocoa mixture. Mix well.Pour into a greased and lined 20cm-deep cake tin and bake at 180°C for 50-60 minutes.For topping: combine all ingredients in a pot and heat gently until melted and smooth.

Cool until thickened. Pour over cooled cake. Leave to set. 

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