DISH RESEARCH · Dessert
fudge cake
PJ Hamel’s selected fudge cake blends a cocoa-and-hot-water mixture into a buttermilk sheet-cake batter, then finishes the cooled cake with its own boiled butter, cocoa, buttermilk and icing-sugar frosting.
About fudge cake
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PJ Hamel’s selected fudge cake is a moist chocolate sheet cake topped with a thick layer of fudge frosting. The rectangular cake uses unsalted butter, cocoa and hot water in its batter, with a separate butter-and-cocoa mixture for the topping.
Melted butter is stirred with the selected unsweetened natural cocoa and hot water. Flour, granulated sugar, baking soda and table salt are combined separately before the cocoa mixture is poured over them.
The selected buttermilk, two eggs and vanilla are beaten into the mixture. The batter spreads into a greased, floured rectangular pan and bakes until the cake begins to pull away from its edges.
For the frosting, another portion of unsalted butter melts with cocoa and buttermilk. This mixture is brought to a boil, taken off the heat and beaten with icing sugar until smooth.
The cake cools on a rack before the warm frosting is poured over its surface. Hamel serves it directly from the pan, with the chocolate cake beneath its generous fudge layer.
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