Chocolate cake

Chocolate cake appears in 2 cookbooks in the collection. Each sheet is the recipe as that book's index lists it; open one to see it in the book.

Chocolate cake
Ingredients
300g dark chocolate (around 65%), roughly chopped
25g cocoa powder
150ml hot coffee or water
100g unsalted butter, well softened
2 tbsp vegetable oil
150g soured cream
250g golden (or regular) granulated sugar, plus 2 tbsp for sprinkling
3 eggs
175g plain flour
½ tsp fine sea salt
1½ tsp baking powder
½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
Cinnamon rum cream (optional)
250ml double cream
40g icing sugar
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1½ tbsp dark rum (or 2 tsp vanilla bean paste or extract)
272Simple Too
Simple Too, p. 272–273
Chocolate cake
Main ingredients
Chocolate
Cake
100The Contemporary African Kitchen
The Contemporary African Kitchen, p. 100–101