Chocolate cake tips and recipes please! (merged)

jak

My mum was making my sons first birthday cake and mow she's got the dreaded swine flu and I need a reciepe for chocolate sponge cake! Please help! It's going to be a pirate party and the cake is going to be a treasure chest. I've got gold coins to spill out of it and chocolate fingers for the sides. I also need a chocolate butter icing reciepe.
Thanks
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AnnaS

Hi
I've used this one a lot and it always comes out really nice. It's on a newspaper website http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/food/article-1161435/Recipe-Basic-vanilla-sponge.html
Hope this helps.
Anna

NinjaB

All my cakes turned out heavy and sunk in the middle until I tried this one now I dont ever use another one. I make it plain just by leaving out the cocoa and putting in the same amount of flour but personally the chocolate is so fab I feel like a professional lol. It also holds well together and doesnt crumble easily so good for cutting into shapes if you need to before you cover them in icing. bbcgoodfood.com go to recipes and search for naughty chocolate fudge cake sorry i cant post links as i am new here ... perhaps someone else can

Chocolate butter cream ... you can make it a bit thicker or thinner by playing with the amounts of milk and icing sugar. Its just basically icing sugar, butter and cocoa powder with a splash of milk but i cant post an exact recipe sorry.

Good luck and I hope she feels better soon. I made my daughters 1st birthday cake using the recipe and was so pleased I felt like a proud mummy and think you will feel so good it felt a bit like a milestone with me being a mummy ... the first cake. Enjoy!

jak

Thanks guys, wish me luck
xxx

amanda40

I always make the Chocolate cake recipe from the Be-ro book

http://www.be-ro.com/f_insp.htm

It is the Rich Chocolate cake - I do substitute the evaporated milk for either water or milk - makes it lighter too. I usually use their icing recipies too.

Good Luck

Penelope_Penguin

jak wrote: »

Thanks guys, wish me luck
xxx

Good luck :T As you've found a recipe, I'll add this to the existing chocolate cake thread to keep ideas and recipes together.

Penny. x

RHYSDAD

Whenever i make a chocolate sponge cake, i can never get the sponge to stay moist and it's driving me mad!!
I use Delia's 'All in one' recipe but it always dries out too much....How do i keep the blummimg sponge moist? And before anyone say's i'm nuking it, i cook it at 170°c for about 20 minutes (double mixture divided between two tins)


Help please! My boys love all this cake but me and the wife are expanding after so many attempts!!

SueC_2

Try a different recipe... maybe you've just got a duff 'un.

If I want a decent cake I always go for Nigella, you can't beat her in my opinion! Her Chocolate Guinness cake is the best thing since, er, her chocolate cheesecake!

RHYSDAD

SueC wrote: »

Try a different recipe... maybe you've just got a duff 'un.

If I want a decent cake I always go for Nigella, you can't beat her in my opinion! Her Chocolate Guinness cake is the best thing since, er, her chocolate cheesecake!

Ha Ha, i did think of doing that but i wanted to know any 'tips' that may be lurking....Maybe it's all in the method!

iamana1ias

you can keep this one for a week+ without it being dry

http://www.nigella.com/recipe/recipe_detail.aspx?rid=250