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So it was a friends 40th last month and for some reason she decided she was coming to tai-chi on the actual day.
So that was that, had to make her a birthday cake :-)
Millwall's into chocolate, so after some research this was the most chocolatey cake recipe I could find.
used this recipe - with some modifications:
I used a mix of 75% cadbury's dairy milk chocolate with 25% 70% dark chocolate. I find if you use all dark chcocolate it really doesn't taste as chocolatey as if you use a mix of milk and plain. I do the same thing for brownies.
If you can't get CDM (and with kraft owning the company now I can't see how you wouldn't be able to) use a good quality swiss, or europaen milk chocolate (don't get me started on american milk chocolate). And I know you can buy suchard and nestle in wally world.
Make sure you fully line the cake tin. That's with a disc on the bottom and a piece that runs round the side and also has cut flaps that fold over and go under the base piece.
And use a tall cake tin NOT a shallow victoria tin or a brownie pan. While it was cooking this was 3x the height of the cooled cake.
The cake cooks like a souffle and then just collapses when it cools.
Have to admit the rustic look really worked well with my basic cake decorating skills (gunny look away now)
Cooled cake
Sliced
I also wasn't keen on the topping in the recipe. So used whipped double/heavy cream mixed about 50/50 with more of the melted milk and dark chocolate mix.
Decorated with: malteesers, white chocolate buttons, white&raspberry chocolate buttons and milk chocolate buttons. Then piped a whipped cream 40 in the middle.
And viola:
Have to admit this was hands down the best chcocolate cake I've ever eaten.
And that was pretty much a unanimous feeling at tai-chi too. The small piece that was left got taken home and was declared the best of the 4 birthday cakes she had.
Always nice when you do something for the first time and it works like it's supposed to
So if you're looking for something special in the way of food for a chocolate addict - give this a try and I guarentee they'll love you for it :-)
Decorate the top with the chocolate based candy of your choice. And yes when I started decorating there was a pattern, honest
So that was that, had to make her a birthday cake :-)
Millwall's into chocolate, so after some research this was the most chocolatey cake recipe I could find.
used this recipe - with some modifications:
I used a mix of 75% cadbury's dairy milk chocolate with 25% 70% dark chocolate. I find if you use all dark chcocolate it really doesn't taste as chocolatey as if you use a mix of milk and plain. I do the same thing for brownies.
If you can't get CDM (and with kraft owning the company now I can't see how you wouldn't be able to) use a good quality swiss, or europaen milk chocolate (don't get me started on american milk chocolate). And I know you can buy suchard and nestle in wally world.
Make sure you fully line the cake tin. That's with a disc on the bottom and a piece that runs round the side and also has cut flaps that fold over and go under the base piece.
And use a tall cake tin NOT a shallow victoria tin or a brownie pan. While it was cooking this was 3x the height of the cooled cake.
The cake cooks like a souffle and then just collapses when it cools.
Have to admit the rustic look really worked well with my basic cake decorating skills (gunny look away now)
Cooled cake
Sliced
I also wasn't keen on the topping in the recipe. So used whipped double/heavy cream mixed about 50/50 with more of the melted milk and dark chocolate mix.
Decorated with: malteesers, white chocolate buttons, white&raspberry chocolate buttons and milk chocolate buttons. Then piped a whipped cream 40 in the middle.
And viola:
Have to admit this was hands down the best chcocolate cake I've ever eaten.
And that was pretty much a unanimous feeling at tai-chi too. The small piece that was left got taken home and was declared the best of the 4 birthday cakes she had.
Always nice when you do something for the first time and it works like it's supposed to
So if you're looking for something special in the way of food for a chocolate addict - give this a try and I guarentee they'll love you for it :-)
Decorate the top with the chocolate based candy of your choice. And yes when I started decorating there was a pattern, honest
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