Wednesday 21 August 2013

Happy Birthday Chocolate Cake

You don’t always need an excuse for baking but I love to have one all the same. On the 19th of August it was Kevin’s Birthday so we made a delicious chocolate fudge cake.  It was ridiculously simple, yet very very tasty! Preheat the oven to 170°C and line two 8 inch tins – I actually used one baking tin this time but I much prefer to use two, it takes an age to bake in one!


White Chocolate Pre-Microwave

Chocolate icing

White Chocolate Something....

Cake Ready for Cutting

Chocolate Fudge Cake

Sponge

50g cocoa powder
6 tbsp boiling water
3 eggs
50ml milk
175g plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
100g butter
275g caster sugar 

  • In a large bowl mix the cocoa powder and boiling water until smooth.
  •  Add the rest of the ingredients and whisk with a hand held mixer until all the ingredients are combined.
  •  Divide the mixture between your two tins and bake in the oven for 20 minutes (it took nearly 40 minutes with one tin)

Icing


150g plain chocolate
150g double cream

  • While your cake is baking prepare your icing so it has plenty of time to cool and thicken.
  • All you do is put the cream in a pot, drop in the chocolate and melt over a low heat for approximately 10 minutes.
  •  Once the cake is baked and cooled decorate with the cooled ganache icing.

PS – I melted white chocolate and spread it on a baking sheet to be broken up and thrown on the cake at the end ha-ha. 

♥ ♥

Wendy
XO


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