chocolate birthday cake

minimacka

Please can someone help me with a chocolate cake recipe so that I can cover it with fondant icing to make a birthday cake for my son. I googled one from the BBC website which used oil instead of butter but it was awful I had to throw it away. Despite cooking it for about 30 mins over the allotted time it was undercooked. I would prefer one with butter because this is the 2nd time I have used a oil recipe and the 2nd time its been thrown away.


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purpledonkey

Hello, the one I use is enough to fill 2 x 8 inch tins.

Ingredients

8oz of unsalted butter or stork margarine
8oz of caster sugar
4 eggs
8oz of self raising flour
2oz of cocoa
2 tablespoons of milk (I use semi-skimmed milk)

Method

1. Preheat oven to gas mark 3/equivalent.
2. Grease the tins (I cheat and use cake release spray).
3. Cream the butter and sugar together, then add the milk.
4. Beat the eggs in one at a time and add a tablespoon of flour in at the same time.
5. Fold in the remaining flour and cocoa until combined.
6. Divide between the tins.
7. Depending on your oven bake for around 40 minutes, turning after 28 minutes if your oven has a hot spot.
8. Once baked (the cake should be springy to the touch, and if poking with a skewer it should come away clean), leave in the tins for 5 minutes on a cooling rack before turning out.

Hope that helps and that it goes well! It's essentially a chocolate version of a Victoria sponge and quite sturdy for fondant.

minimacka

OOo thank you for that recipe I will have a go this weekend.


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siws1

That's the recipe I usually use for a chocolate sponge too but when I want to make a special one I have used Lorraine Pascale's Malteser cake recipe - its a little bit richer but so easy to do and absolutely lush. Has turned out well every time I have made it.

This is the link to the recipe

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-2183283/Recipe-Let-eat-cake-cake.html

Hope this helps.

Good luck

peachyprice

I use this one, it comes out perfect time after time and tastes delicious

http://www.oetker.co.uk/uk-en/rezepte/r/chocolate-victoria-sponge-cake.html

esmy

This is my favourite
http://www.be-ro.co.uk/recipe/showrec77.html

(and for a more 'adult' cake replace the evaporated milk with Baileys!)

minimacka

Thank you for your replies I will have to try them all to see which one is best
:-)