Chocolate Birthday Cake Recipe please :-)

[jenni75]

Hi, does anyone have a good chocolate cake recipe, would be greatly appreciated for DD'S 9th Birthday :-) Thanx x

I use this one all the time, but add 4 eggs instead of 3 as it makes it more moist. :)

This chocolate stout cake is amazing - the most deeply chocolatey cake I've ever made and keeps moist forever so good if you want to make it a day or two in advance. It doubles beautifully if you want to make really giant cake, or a big tall two-layer one with a layer of sour cherry or raspberry jam in the middle.

And in case you're worried all the stout does is intensify the chocolatey flavour - no alcohol taste I promise.

I will give the stout one a go... I have to say I'm shocking at making cakes. I'd like to think I'm a good cook, and I've made difficult things well but all my cakes are rubbish! I'm hoping it's lack of practice and not some cake curse.

try the milk chocolate cake recipe from the be-ro cook book.
It is lovely, the best choc cake ive ever made, and use thair recipe for milk choc icing too

Thank you, I will experiment this afternoon :-)

chubbly this one's really easy, mainly because you don't have to cream together butter and sugar - you MELT the butter together with the cocoa powder and the stout. Then in a separate (big) bowl you beat together sour cream and eggs, then mix in the butter/cocoa/stout, so you have a big bowl of liquid. Then you stir in the flour into the liquid ingredients. I think it always gives great results since there's no worries about getting the butter and cream really smooth before you mix in other things.

Do make sure to grease your pan REALLY well, be really patient and make sure you leave the cake in the oven until a knife comes out clean (ignore the recipe time, all ovens are different and if you can't smell burning then it's fine to leave it in for longer than you think is necessary if it's not cooked in the middle) and then leave in the tin to cool at least 10 minutes before attempting to remove the cake - I find I get best results with springform pans where you can just snap off the outside ring.