2013 Christmas Chocolate Bundt Cake Recipe

Chocolate Bundt Cake gets most of its sweetness from brown sugar and maple syrup. There are various ways of making a chocolate Bundt cake, but not all of them are easy. Below is one of the easiest recipes for making this cake. For this cake, less butter is used than ordinary cakes. In addition, you can opt to use butter milk along with icing sugar. For the cake, you will need to following ingredients:

- Some unsalted butter for both, cake and the pan

- Chocolate porter (2 Cups). You can substitute this for stout beer

- Natural cocoa powder (3 ¼ cups). The powder should be non-dutched

- Wheat flour (1 Cup)

- All-purpose flour (1 Cup)

- Baking soda (1 ½ tablespoons)

- Muscovado or dark brown sugar (1 Cup)

- 3 large eggs

- Fine grain sea salt (3 ¼ tablespoons)

- Pure maple syrup (3 ¼ tablespoons)

- Plain whole yoghurt (350 ml)

For the chocolate-butter milk icing, you will need to use the following ingredients:

- Butter milk (2 tablespoons)

- Natural cocoa powder, which should be non-dutched (1/4 cup)

- Powdered sugar (3 ¼ cups)

After you have gotten all the ingredients, you can get started. First of all, you ought to pre-heat the oven to about 356 F or 180 C. The oven should have a rack in the center. The cake should be baked in an eleven or twelve cup capacity Bundt pan. However, the cake can be baked in other pans as well. In case, you decide to use another pan for baking, you will also need to adjust the baking time accordingly. Bake the cake until it starts to pull away from all the pan sides. In addition, you should bake the cake until it tests clean if a knife is inserted in its center.

In a separate saucepan, simmer the beer to about one cup. Remove it from heat, add some butter and stir until it melts completely. Add the cocoa powder and then stir the mixture until it is completely smooth. The mixture should then be set aside to cool.

In another bowl, whisk the baking soda, sugar, salt and the flours. In another mixing bowl, combine the yogurt, eggs and syrup until they are uniformly mixed. Combine the mixtures of both bowls and fold until they are fully blended together. Transfer this batter to the prepared pan. Bake for approximately 45 minutes. Once baked for this long, your Chocolate Bundt Cake will be ready.

Enjoy 2012 -2013 Christmas cake