BAR ONE CHOCOLATE CAKE WITH CARAMEL SAUCE LAYER

Yields: 22 cm cake

• Cake:
• 45 ml 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 yogurt
• 2 x 55 g Bar One chocolate, cut into chunks

Mix cocoa powder in boiling water until smooth and allow slight cooling.
Cream butter and sugar very well. Add eggs, one-at-a-time, beating well in-between. Then add cocoa mixture.
Sift all your dry ingredients, add bar one chunks to this. Alternately, add sifted ingredients with yogurt to the creamed mixture.
Grease and line a 22 cm loose-bottomed cake tin, spoon in cake mixture.
Bake in a pre-heated oven of 180˚C for about 1 hour.

• Chocolate sauce:
• 55 g Bar One chocolate
• 100 g Dark Chocolate, we use Belgium
• 60 ml cream
• 45 g unsalted butter

While the cake is baking, mix up all the sauce ingredients in a sauce pan over a low heat until completely melted. Once the cake is baked, remove from the tin, place onto a cooling rack. Using a skewer make holes all over the top of the cake, then pour over the warm sauce. Leave over night covered in the fridge.

• Caramel sauce layer:  (make the day of the cake baking)
• 200 g brown sugar
• 250 ml cream
• 40 g salted butter

Caramelize the sugar over a low heat in a pan, add butter and then cream. Lightly simmer. Strain through a sieve and place into the fridge.

• Whipped cream layer:
• 250 ml cream, whipped
• ICING:
• PART one
• 2 x 55 g Bar One chocolate
• 100 g dark chocolate, we use Belgium
• 200 g pink and white Marshmallows
• 250 ml cream

Place all the above ingredients into a big bowl and melt over a Bain Marie.

• PART two
• 125 g unsalted butter
• 1 ½ cups sifted icing sugar
• ½ cup cocoa powder
• 5 ml vanilla essence

Cream all the above ingredients together.

• PART three
  Mix part one and part two together well.

Putting the cake together:
Cut the cake into three layer. Place a caramel layer and cream layer in-between the layers.
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.

Recipe posted by Wilanda Räsänen
Photo: Sharmaine Dyers

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