Gluten free chocolate cake

Name: Gluten free chocolate cake
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: Cake ingredients:; 300 g butter; 300 g light brown sugar; 200 g gluten free self raising flour; 6 medium eggs; 3/4 tsp xantham gum; 200 g dark chocolate; Buttercream ingredients:; 250 g butter; 1 tsp vanilla extract; 400 g icing sugar; 200 g dark chocolate; To finish:; Strawberries

nicolehooper @nicolehooper

Gluten free chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream icing and strawberries made at Cookpad head office with ZitaB

nicolehooper @nicolehooper

Gluten free chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream icing and strawberries made at Cookpad head office with ZitaB

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Ingredients

Cake ingredients:
300 gbutter
300 glight brown sugar
200 ggluten free self raising flour
6medium eggs
3/4 tspxantham gum
200 gdark chocolate
Buttercream ingredients:
250 gbutter
1 tspvanilla extract
400 gicing sugar
200 gdark chocolate
To finish:
Strawberries

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Steps

1

Cake: Preheat the oven to 180°C
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Melt dark chocolate in a bain marie (place a bowl with the chocolate over a saucepan with hot water in)
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Beat together butter and light brown sugar
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Beat in to the butter and sugar mixture gluten free self raising flour, eggs and xantham gum
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Once the dark chocolate has cooled fold in to the mixture
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Grease two 20cm cake tins with butter and then pour mixture evenly between the two tins
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Place tins in the oven for around 35-40 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean when poked in the cake
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Buttercream: Melt dark chocolate in a bain marie
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Beat butter to loosen it before beating in icing sugar and vanilla extract
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Fold in dark chocolate
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Decorating: Spread half of the buttercream on one of the cakes and sliced strawberries
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Place the other cake on top of the cake spread with buttercream
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Top with the rest of the buttercream and whole strawberries