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Food & crafts => Recipes => Topic started by: Crofter on March 28, 2009, 10:21:01 pm

Title: You've got to try this!
Post by: Crofter on March 28, 2009, 10:21:01 pm

Amazingly light, totally chocolatey but not too sweet!

Naughty Chocolate Fudge Cake



Ingredients:

•   175g Self raising flour
•   2 Tbsp Cocoa Powder
•   1 Tsp Bicarbonate soda
•   150g Caster sugar
•   2 Eggs Beaten
•   150 ml (1/4 pint) Sunflower oil
•   150 ml (1/4 pint) Semi skimmed milk
•   2 Tbsp Golden syrup
   
•   For the Coating and filling
   
•   75g Unsalted butter
•   175g Icing Sugar
•   3 Tbsp Cocoa Powder
•   Drop of Milk

Method.
 
1.   Pre-heat oven to 180ºC/350F/Gas Mark 4. Grease and line two 18cm (7 inch) sandwich tins.
2.   Sieve the flour, cocoa and Bicarbonate of Soda into a bowl. Add the sugar and mix well.
3.   Make a well in the centre and add the syrup, eggs, oil and milk. Beat well with electric whisk until smooth.
4.   Spoon the mixture into the two tins and bake for 25 - 30 minutes until risen and firm to the touch.            Remove  from oven, leave to cool before turning out onto a cooling rack.
5.   To make your butter icing, place the butter in a bowl and beat until soft. Gradually sift and beat in the icing sugar and cocoa powder then add enough milk to make the icing fluffy and spreadable.
6.   If the cake has risen a little to high then use a serrated knife to even off the top, now sandwich the two cakes together with the butter icing and cover the sides and the top of the cake with more butter icing.


Dave

Title: Re: You've got to try this!
Post by: flipflopper on March 31, 2009, 09:11:29 pm

DO NOT LET MY WIFE SEE THIS !!!

 :P Yum

Title: Re: You've got to try this!
Post by: sabrina on April 03, 2009, 07:42:08 pm

Well I made this cake today and its very, very , good. If I can do it, anyone can  :)

Title: Re: You've got to try this!
Post by: carole h on April 03, 2009, 08:07:18 pm

 :( :( :( Just as I've decided that I really should be back on my diet!!! ;D

Title: Re: You've got to try this!
Post by: Crofter on April 03, 2009, 10:45:50 pm

I suspect it's totally calorie free........................if you dig the whole garden by hand!

Dave

Title: Re: You've got to try this!
Post by: carole h on April 04, 2009, 09:17:39 pm

mmmmmmm .....probably worth it!! :D :pig:

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Post by: sabrina on April 05, 2009, 10:20:41 am

It is  ;D

Title: Re: You've got to try this!
Post by: carole h on April 05, 2009, 07:54:15 pm

Dug a veg patch over today!!! Yeh hey ...cooking here I come!!! ;D ;D ;D

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Post by: xxmillyxx on April 23, 2009, 02:49:29 am

Just printed it off - grand daughter coming for the weekend this will keep her busy for a while - making it then eating it.

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Post by: Townie on May 02, 2009, 05:06:02 pm

I love trying out different chocolate cake recipes, will give this one a try very soon  Thanks for the recip ;D

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Post by: xxmillyxx on May 02, 2009, 09:16:44 pm

Tried it and ooooooo it was lovely.  Now going to try hte same recipe but with lemon.

Thanks for the recipe.

Title: Re: You've got to try this!
Post by: Rosemary on May 04, 2009, 09:56:35 am

This is in the oven BUT I was rushing and wrote the recipe down wrong and added 1/2 pt milk not 1/4pt. I thought it was very runny when I was mixing it. So, I had to double up the rest of the ingredients - to make double quantity. Bummer.  :)

Title: Re: You've got to try this!
Post by: dreamer on May 04, 2009, 10:29:06 am

I made this on Saturday it was all gone by Sunday, best served warm i think , passed a portion over to my neighbour and the recipe, she made one on Sunday its more contagious than swine flu!!!!