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!
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| White Chocolate Pre-Microwave |
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| Chocolate icing |
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| White Chocolate Something.... |
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| Cake Ready for Cutting |
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| Chocolate Fudge Cake |
Sponge
50g cocoa powder6 tbsp boiling water3 eggs50ml milk175g plain flour1 tsp baking powder100g butter275g 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 chocolate150g 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
