Sourdough chocolate cake for my dad

This is a special cake that I made for my dad on his birthday this year because he loves chocolate/mud cake. It’s a very moist chocolate cake inspired by one that I tried when I was in Berlin earlier this year. I went to Sofi bakery and they had sourdough cake – this was something I’d considered previously but for some reason had thought might not taste good and so never been motivated to try it out myself. But as soon as I saw it at Sofi I ordered a piece and it was so delicious, I knew when I got back home to Adelaide that I was going to try making my own version. Recipe notes: You can swap out margarine for room temperature butter. The main reason that I use Nuttelex in many of my recipes is simply that you never have to wait for it to become soft! But I’ve found despite having slightly different flavours and textures, in most recipes, most of the time they are interchangeable. Ideally your discard shouldn’t be really old, because you don’t want it to be too acidic and sour, as this will give a stronger flavour to your cake. You can also use your sourdough starter when it’s bubbly. For example, if you have a little extra starter left over or if you fed your starter and then decided not to make a loaf after all, you could put it in the fridge and use it later (e.g. on the next day or later the same day) to make this cake. If you don’t have any sourdough starter but you still want to make the cake you can, just mix together 40g of water and 40g of flour and have a ‘pretend’ starter – it won’t add any sourdough flavour to your cake but the cake will still taste great.

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