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Benjamina Ebuehi Chocolate Buttermilk Traybake
Ingredients
  • subheading: For the cake:
  • 100g (3½oz/scant ½ cup) unsalted butter, plus extra for greasing
  • 100g (3½oz) dark chocolate, roughly chopped
  • 300ml (10½fl oz/generous 1¼ cups) buttermilk
  • 2 eggs
  • 280g (10oz/generous 2 cups) plain (all-purpose) flour
  • 280g (10oz/scant 1½ cups) light muscovado sugar
  • 50g (1¾oz/½ cup) unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1½ tsp bicarbonate of soda (baking soda)
  • ¼ tsp fine sea salt
  • 200ml (7fl oz/scant 1 cup) hot water
  • subheading: For the thyme caramel:
  • 150ml (5fl oz/scant ⅔ cup) double (heavy) cream
  • 5 sprigs of fresh thyme, plus extra to decorate
  • 100g (3½oz/½ cup) golden caster (superfine) sugar
  • 50g (2oz/scant ¼ cup) unsalted butter, softened
  • Pinch of flaky sea salt
  • subheading: For the Swiss meringue buttercream:
  • 180g (6¼oz) egg whites (from 4 to 5 large eggs)
  • 240g (8½oz/1¼ cups) light muscovado sugar
  • 335g (11¾oz/1½ cups) unsalted butter, softened
  • ¼ tsp fine sea salt
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