Coco, The Burlesque Wonder Cake (courtesy Of Thelovebite.com)

Total Time: 55 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 6 ounces unsalted butter (softened)
• 1/3 cup cocoa
• 2/3 cup caster sugar (or superfine sugar)
• 1/2 cup golden syrup
• 1 1/2 cups self raising flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 3/4 cup light sour cream
• 2 eggs
• 2 ounces softened butter
• 1/2 cup sour cream
• 3 tablespoons golden syrup
• 3 cups confectioners' sugar (powdered) or 3 cups icing sugar
• 1/4 cup cocoa
• 3 ounces melted dark semi-sweet chocolate
• 1 ounce additional dark chocolate, not melted but broken into pieces

Recipe

• 1 here's how it's done:.
• 2 pre-heat: oven to 400
• 3 blend: softened butter, cocoa, sugar, flour, baking powder, golden syrup, sour cream and eggs in a food processor until well blended (30 seconds, scrape sides, another 30 seconds)
• 4 pour: batter into a buttered and floured cake pan (9 inch springform works well).
• 5 bake for 10 minutes @ 400.
• 6 reduce oven heat to 350. bake another 30 minutes
• 7 if cake bounces back when tapped lightly on top, it is done. (it might need another 5 minutes if it doesn't spring)
• 8 remove from heat, let cool in pan for 5-10 minutes before turning out.
• 9 frosting:
• 10 blend softened butter, sour cream, golden syrup, melted chocolate, icing/ confectioner's sugar and cocoa in a food processor until whipped (30-40 seconds).
• 11 add the extra 10z of choclate pieces and pulse the processor to splinter them into choc chips in the frosting
• 12 when the cake is almost cool, top it with the frosting.