You’ll need: 2 ¼ cups cake flour; 2 ¼ cups sugar; 1 cup cocoa powder; 12.5ml bicarbonate of soda; 5ml salt; 3 large eggs; 330ml buttermilk; 330ml sunflower oil; 10ml vanilla essence; 330ml boiling water.
How to:
Preheat the oven to 160°C.
Prepare two 22cm round cake tins with baking paper circles on the bottom and grease the sides and paper well.
Sift all the dry ingredients into a large mixing bowl and whisk together.
Add the eggs, buttermilk and oil to the dry ingredients and mix well. You must mix until the sugar has dissolved. This is a very important step.
Add the vanilla essence to boiling water and add to the mixture, mix well.
Divide the batter evenly between the cake tins and bake for 35 minutes or until a cake tester comes out clean.
Remove the cakes from the oven and allow them to cool for about 10 minutes in the cake tins, then remove from tins and gently place on cooling racks to cool completely.
Once cool, decorate with your favourite chocolate icing, chocolate balls and fruit.
Tips:
- Never open an oven door until initial baking time is done – your cake will fall!
- Remove the paper from the bottom of the cake when you put it on the cooling rack.
- All ingredients should be at room temperature.
* Recipe & image by the Clover Mama Afrika Recipe Book
About the book:
Clover Mama Afrika Recipe Book – I cook, because we eat! has been launched to bring you some of Clover Mama Afrika’s most popular and delicious dishes, to reconnect with soulful, traditional cooking, the way our mothers and grandmothers used to.
The dishes are mouth-watering and easy to make from start to finish; what better way to bond with your close family and friends than by cooking together.
The recipe book has in part been subsidized by Clover because they believe that good food and great memories shouldn’t be limited by price. Also, by purchasing the cookbook, you will be actively helping ladies around South Africa achieve their small business dreams through the Clover Mama Afrika project, which aims to identify women who are already agents of change in their communities and helps train them to become self-sustaining women with skills which they can use to derive an income from, to support orphaned and abused children and the elderly and infirm.
The cookbook can be purchased at Lapa Publishers and costs R230.
