I tried this recipe out on my cell group last week for my friend Jane’s birthday, and it was quite a success, if I say so myself. I decorated mine with one of the many packets of M&Ms we had (note use of past tense) in the house for the Cineworld offer. I have since bought another load of ingredients, and am waiting for an excuse to make another one… I’ll add a photo on that happy day. (Edited to add: I did make it again, but it was nearly gone before I remembered the photo… whoops.)
Ingredients:
3 eggs (beaten)
175g margarine
175g caster sugar
150g SR flour
half a teaspoon baking powder
3 tablespoons cocoa powder
For topping:
200ml double cream
100g milk chocolate
100g dark chocolate
smarties or other decoration (optional)
- Preheat oven to 180 C.
- Grease (and line?) cake tins. (I didn’t line mine – they’re non-stick.)
- Cream margarine and sugar, then gradually beat in the eggs.
- Sieve flour, cocoa powder and baking powder into creamed mixture.
- Divide mixture between two cake tins and bake for 20-25 mins. No checking on them or they will sink!
- While cakes are cooling, melt chocolate over boiling water.
- Remove from heat and allow to cool for five minutes, then stir in the cream. Leave to thicken for a few minutes.
- When cakes are completely cool, use a quarter of the topping for filling, then put the rest on top and sides of assembled cake (it’s not supposed to look too tidy!). Decorate.
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Yes, I made a similarly successful chocolate cake for Louis’ birthday party, except I decorated with chocolate icing, (which I even piped in pretty swirls around the edges), coloured strands, smarties and jelly beans also completed the masterpiece. Louis grabbed a huge handful while he was ‘blowing’ out the candle, so it ended up all over him, but he was making lots of ‘yum, yum’ noises and enjoyed his first encounter with sugar!
A good tip is to work out the measurements in ‘cups’, so you don’t dirty your scales. How domesticated have we become? Who would have thought…
By: Victoria on 30 August 2007
at 11:34 am
I use cups for breadmaking (and various American recipes in my collection), but have the sort of scales where you just plonk whatever bowl you’re using on the top and reset the marker to zero. Top tip though! We should write a book.
By: creativesimplicity on 30 August 2007
at 11:49 am
Yes, I made a similarly successful chocolate cake for Louis’ birthday party, except I decorated with chocolate icing, (which I even piped in pretty swirls around the edges), coloured strands, smarties and jelly beans
By: habon on 31 January 2009
at 12:23 am
I love my wcake it was delicous i ate it all by myself even though i made it for my family:D i could’nt resist it was too good:L
By: karima on 17 May 2009
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Yes, I made a similarly successful chocolate cake for Louis’ birthday party, except I decorated with chocolate icing, (which I even piped in pretty swirls around the edges), coloured strands, smarties and jelly beans
By: gumbum on 5 July 2009
at 4:59 am
I wanted to tried this recepi but I would like to know what is milk chocolate? normally I just put cooking chocolate. thank you
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