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Please can someone point me in the direction of an EASY but rich and moist chocolate cake.

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QueenOfAllBiscuitsandMuffins · 06/07/2011 15:09

Please could someone point me in the direction of an EASY but rich and moist chocolate cake. It's for a birthday cake and I'm not particularly good at cakes.

TIA.

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LadyDamerel · 06/07/2011 15:32

This one is delicious and pretty much idiot proof Grin.

NettoSuperstar · 06/07/2011 15:38

this one is fab and really easy.

ggirl · 06/07/2011 15:44

this is a delicious cheat you can buy in waitrose
def can't tell it's a packet

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QueenOfAllBiscuitsandMuffins · 06/07/2011 18:10

Thank you I am going to try the BBC recipe tonight.

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supadupapupascupa · 06/07/2011 18:11

delia's chocolate guiness cake is the easiest and nicest i have ever made

gillybean2 · 06/07/2011 18:12

www.mumsnet.com/Recipes/i/4291-Chocolate-cake-flower-show-favourite

This one is brilliant and easy as anything! So good I had to share it...

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QueenOfAllBiscuitsandMuffins · 06/07/2011 19:02

that flower show fave is very similar to the bbc one!

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QueenOfAllBiscuitsandMuffins · 07/07/2011 09:34

tried the BBC one, sorry wasn't very impressed by the cake (which tbh could be my cooking skills) it wasn't very chocolatey and I used Bournville Cocoa.

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beachyhead · 07/07/2011 09:41

I've never made a cake with oil before - how does that work? I need to make two cakes today.....

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QueenOfAllBiscuitsandMuffins · 07/07/2011 09:43

Not sure how but it does! I don't suppose you would like to make Nigella Lawsons chocolate cake and let me know how it goes?

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orangina · 07/07/2011 09:48

I can recommend the Betty Crocker packet mix (Choclate Devils Food Cake)..... MUCH better than any other home made effort of my own (though I am no domestic goddess in the baking dept......).

orangina · 07/07/2011 09:55

Sersiouly Queen, I make a delicious looking "easy delicious fabulous chocolate cake" from scratch and it was (frankly) horrible. Dry, yucky, nothing to recommend it. Even dd, who is utterly UNfussy about anything chocolate or cake related, admitted she didn't like it. So for her birthday, I went for Betty Crocker for the cake, and made a delicious dark chocolate buttercream icing on top.

Dd said it was the best cake she had EVER eaten. Really moist.

(Though the cake bit is a bit on the sweet side if I'm honest).

Beachedbabe · 07/07/2011 09:56

Very easy chocolate cake

gillybean2 · 07/07/2011 16:28

Everyone who has tried my cake loves it, and most ask for the recipe. I had one lady insist she had to have it as her dd wanted it as part of her wedding cake!

I make them by the bucket load for school fetes and they're always gone very fast. And if I have it in the house it vanishes very fast.
Ds made it to give to teachers as leaving presents at his primary school and they all commented on how delicious it was (except one teaching assistant who's dc had scoffed the lot before she got a look in!)

The cake is super easy. The oil makes it very moist (although I don't fancy the sunflower oil version - is that meant to be the healthy version? IMO chocolate cake isn't there to be healthy!) It also means it keeps better and if you leave it in teh oven a little too long it is very forgiving as it softens up those slightly over done patches if you leave it wrapped in foil overnight.

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QueenOfAllBiscuitsandMuffins · 08/07/2011 17:35

Right Gilly I am going to try your recipe for the actual cake using corn flour and green and blacks cocoa. If it goes horrible wrong I will blame the random woman on the internet.

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psiloveyou · 08/07/2011 18:35

I third the Betty Crocker packet mix. It is fab and all my friends and neighbours beg me for the recipe Blush

thestringcheeseincident · 08/07/2011 18:38

Yes to the Betty. So moist it's unreal

LisMcA · 08/07/2011 18:39

www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/3092/ultimate-chocolate-cake

tHIS ONE IS FABULOUS!

gillybean2 · 09/07/2011 15:01

my recipe is for normal flour and corn oil... I have made it with tesco's own cocoa as well as organic greem nd blacks, both are fine

poppyboo · 09/07/2011 18:06

gillybean2 is that plain flour? i'm tempted to try this, the oil cakes i've tried in the past have had no flavour though, the icing has made them taste chocolately IyKWIM?

i'm really tempted by your recommendation though............ :)

gillybean2 · 09/07/2011 18:24

The cake is moist and is the perfect base to the icing, but I would agree it's the icing that makes it really chocolatey

scarlettsmummy2 · 09/07/2011 18:27

Marks and spencers do a brilliant chocolate fudge cake mix, I know it is cheating but it is super easy, just need oil, butter and eggs, and it is really lovely

Herecomesthesciencebint · 09/07/2011 21:29

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Pinner35 · 10/07/2011 21:15

The nigella recipe is amazing. It's so easy, my DH and 3yo DD made it for my birthday no problem. Fudgey, moist and utterly delicious.

MonMome · 10/07/2011 21:25

This one is gorgeous www.nigella.com/recipes/view/DEVILS-FOOD-CAKE-5310

And this one too - brilliant every time and it's a throw it all in and mix together effort Smile

www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/2005/fudgy-dark-chocolate-cake

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