Chocolate buttercream cake

Ingredients for 1 servings:

• 250 g sugar
• 250 g butter
• 3 eggs
• 80 g cocoa powder
• 200 g flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 80 ml water
• 2 large apples
• 1 pack of pudding powder, vanilla
• ½ liter of milk
• 2 tbsp sugar
• 250 g butter, soft
• 100 g powdered sugar

Instructions

Working time approx. 45 minutes; Rest time approx. 1 hour; Cooking/baking time approx. 1 hour; Total time approx. 2 hours 45 minutes

Moist chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream

Cake base: First, cream the butter and sugar with a hand mixer until fluffy. Gradually add the eggs one at a time, mixing evenly. Once everything is smooth, peel and core the apples. Then grate the apples or use a food processor to finely grate them (a food processor is faster and easier). Depending on your taste, you can leave the pieces a little coarser. Next, mix the remaining dry ingredients (flour, baking powder, cocoa powder) and stir them into the batter, then add the water and finally the chopped apples. Pour the batter into a greased springform pan or loaf pan and bake in the oven at 160°C for about 50-60 minutes. After baking, the cake can be removed from the pan and must cool thoroughly before spreading the cream. Buttercream: Prepare the pudding according to the package instructions. Boil the milk, dissolve the pudding in a little cold milk, and stir it into the boiling milk. Then let it boil for about a minute. Pour the warm pudding into a bowl, cover with cling film to prevent a skin from forming, and allow to cool. When the pudding is at room temperature, beat the softened butter with a mixer and gradually sift in the icing sugar. Once the sugar is evenly distributed, add the pudding a spoonful at a time and mix in. Then spread the buttercream on the cake using a palette knife or a large knife. For a two-tiered cake, simply fill a small springform pan with half the amount of batter and bake. Likewise, make about one and a half times as much buttercream. For decoration, the buttercream can also be colored with a little cocoa.