Amazing Amasi cake
Butter Full Cream AmasiVelvet

Recipe Information
10
serves:
30
prep time:
45
cook time:
medium
difficulty:
Ingredients:
For the cake:
- 6 eggs
- 3 cups sugar
- 3 ½ cups flour
- ¾ cup cocoa
- 15 ml baking powder
- 5 ml salt
- 10 ml vanilla essence
- 200 g First Choice Butter
- ¾ cup oil
- 3 cups First Choice Amasi
- 4 tsp instant coffee dissolved in a cup of warm water
For the sauce:
- 1 cup sugar
- 100 g First Choice Butter
- 1 cup First Choice Amasi
- 5 ml vanilla essence
For the ganache:
- 125 ml First Choice Chocolate Velvet
- 250 ml dark chocolate
Preparation method:
The Cake:
- Preheat oven to 180°C
- Cream First Choice Butter and sugar together in a mixer until light and fluffy
- Add the eggs, vanilla essence, and 3 cups of First Choice Amasi and mix for a minute
- Add the coffee dissolved in warm water and mix for another minute
- In a separate bowl, sieve the flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt together
- Mix the oil into the wet ingredients.
- Mix the dry mixture with the 'wet' mixture in 3 increments and mixing inbetween until the batter is smooth.
- Grease 2 medium-sized cake pans with First Choice Butter and dust lightly with cocoa
- Divide the batter between the two pans and then bake for between 40 to 45 minutes
The Sauce:
- Heat the First Choice Butter, sugar, amasi, vanilla essence in a pot over medium heat for about 5 minutes
- When the cake is baked, let it sit for 10 minutes. Use a fork to poke holes in the cake and then pour the sauce over
Enjoy!
The Ganache
- Heat the First Choice Chocolate Velvet in a glass bowl in the microwave until boiling point
- Break the dark chocolate into pieces and add to hot First Choice Chocolate Velvet
- Let it sit / melt for 2 min
- Mix slowly with a handheld whisk until all the lumps dissolve (microwave for a minute if there are still lumps)
- The ganache will thicken on standing
- Once thickened apply the ganache to the cake
