Chocolate cake tips and recipes please! (merged)

mrbadexample

I'd chuck an extra tablespoon in. It's a lovely cake, very moist and light, and easy enough for even a bloke to make.

I did manage to wait the bare minimum of time before getting stuck in.

cat64

Help! - made the be-ro choc cake yesterday and it turned out as flat as a pancake - any ideas what might have gone wrong?

cat64

Has anyone else had difficulty accessing the link that fink posted for chocolate fudge cake - all I get is a Sky advert?

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cat64 wrote: »

Has anyone else had difficulty accessing the link that fink posted for chocolate fudge cake - all I get is a Sky advert?

It links to the Sky One website for me, but it does have a recipe for a dark chocolate fudge cake with raspberries on the page.

cat64

Can't see recipe - do you have to click on anything?

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cat64 wrote: »

Can't see recipe - do you have to click on anything?

I've just clicked the link and the chocolate cake recipe comes up.

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cat64

How strange - I just get the Sky one page with a blank space on it! If anyone gets chance would you be willing to type the recipe out if it's not too long? Would be very grateful

Feisty_Fairy

Hi all,

I am a baking novice but thought it would be fun to try and bake a cake for my DS's birthday which is friday, he will be 4 and LOVES chocolate!!:p

So anyone got a foolproof cake recipe that the boys can help me to make and that i cant mess up??

The easier the better please!

Thanks in advance

Feisty!

p.s he loves spiders so anything with that theme would be even better!:eek:

thriftmonster

If you look on the board for Mr bad examples choc yoghurt cake, it's lovely and very easy.

How about a web icing design. You ice the cake in white glace icing and then do coloured concentric circles on it and then use a skewer to draw lines through the circles from the centre outwards to create a cobweb effect. You could then position a few plastic spiders on it.

shell2001

We made a chocolate victoria sponge, filled with fresh cream and covered with a fudge icing (very simple and yummy) and covered it in smarties. My 3 year old DD2 knew exactly what she wanted lol! All very easy to do and DD's both helped to make it the morning of her birthday. Another good one is same as above but stick matchmakers in it to make a hedgehog. I made a cone out of brown card for the face and stuck googley eyes and a red pompom on for a nose. I decorated the plate it sat on with cut out leaves design.

HTH, if you want the recipe for the fudge icing just let me know.