Buttermilk Chocolate Cake

Alright, I do have a weak spot for something so simple as a good chocolate cake. So when I was craving said chocolate cake, I pulled out the I Heart Soul Food cookbook by Rosie Mayes and made buttermilk chocolate cake.

As we don't have what Americans would call buttermilk, I had to substitute it with what we Norwegians would call "skummet kulturmelk", which has the closest consistency to buttermilk, but fortunately it went well, especially as there's cakes here in Norway that's made with "kulturmelk" anyway.

I'm by no means a skilled cake decorator, so I was worried for a second when it came to the frosting, but thankfully I pulled that one off okay I think. Overall it was a good and flavourful chocolate cake (added bonus with the coffee in the batter AND frosting), and it wasn't one of those dry cakes either. It's honestly no fun eating a cake that's dryer than Sahara.

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