Chocolate Squares Recipes

Chocolate Squares Recipes

Recipe: Make this moist Buttermilk Chocolate Cake

Buttermilk is the secret ingredient that makes this simple chocolate cake so moist. Top with chocolate icing and you have a real treat.

Chocolate Squares Recipes

Chocolate Squares Recipes

Buttermilk is such a versatile ingredient. It can be used in savoury dishes and it is also the secret ingredient to making super-moist cakes.

This buttermilk chocolate squares recipe with chocolate icing is likely to become one of your favourites!

Chocolate Squares Recipe

5 from 2 votes
Recipe by Alicia Naidoo Course: DessertCuisine: GlobalDifficulty: Easy
Prep time

15

minutes
Cooking time

25

minutes
Total time

40

minutes

This buttermilk chocolate squares recipe with chocolate icing is likely to become one of your favourites.

Ingredients

  • 1 cup 1 butter

  • 1 cup 1 water

  • 3/4 cup 3/4 sugar

  • 4 tablespoons 4 cocoa

  • 2 cups 2 flour

  • 2 teaspoons 2 baking powder

  • 1 teaspoon 1 vanilla essence

  • 1 teaspoon 1 salt

  • 1/2 cup 1/2 buttermilk

  • 2 eggs

  • INGREDIENTS – ICING
  • 8 tablespoons 8 butter

  • 6 tablespoons 6 icing sugar

  • 1 teaspoon 1 vanilla essence

  • 2 tablespoons 2 cocoa powder

Method

  • Preheat oven to 200°C. Grease a square cake tin.
  • In a saucepan, add butter, water, sugar and cocoa. Bring to a boil.
  • In a mixing bowl whisk eggs and buttermilk.
  • Separately, mix flour, baking powder, salt.
  • Gently combine all mixtures and place in pan.
  • Bake for 25 minutes.
  • METHOD – ICING
  • Beat together softened butter, icing sugar, cocoa and vanilla essence.
  • After the cake has cooled, add icing.

Did you make this recipe?

Tag @the.south.african on Instagram and hashtag it #recipes

Like this recipe?

Follow us @thesouthafrican on Pinterest

Looking for more tasty recipes to prepare for your family and friends? Just have a look at our recipe page, we have excellent suggestions for you to try.

If you would like to submit a recipe for publication, please complete our recipe form here.