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chocolate + raspberries = Nigella's cake, but I don't have the recipe!

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Pidge · 31/08/2006 13:11

I find myself on holiday at my parents house and in possession of lots of high quality dark chocolate and some raspberries that need using up. I seem to remember a friend creating a delicious Chocolate-Raspberry pudding cake from Nigella's How to Eat. But I can't find the recipe online.

Does anyone fancy filling me in so I can put these fabby ingredients to good use?!

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stevie74 · 31/08/2006 13:32

Just found this for you - not sure if it would do, chocolate raspberry pavlova... Link is; www.nigella.com/recipes/recipe.asp?article=210

womblingalong · 31/08/2006 13:51

I think it is chocolate raspberry pavlova, and it's on the nigella.com website.

HTH

Pidge · 31/08/2006 13:52

Stevie - I saw that too. I would normally be very tempted, but I happened to make a blueberry and redcurrant pavlova last night, so I think we need a change! Looks delish though ....

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Pidge · 31/08/2006 13:53

womblingalong - crossed posts with you!

Hmmm - am wondering if the choco raspberry cake was not a nigella after all. But I'm pretty sure it's in How to Eat ...

Might have to improvise or dream up something else!

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MrsBadger · 31/08/2006 14:01

it is in How to Eat
am Googling for it but if you can bear to wait till 5pm I'll type it up when I get home

motherinferior · 31/08/2006 14:02

wotcher pidgey....

sugarfree · 31/08/2006 14:07

In the mean time,fill left hand with raspberries,right hand with choc,stuff in mouth alternately,pausing only to refill hands.

MrsBadger · 31/08/2006 14:07

bingo but it's been converted into damn US cups

Chocolate Raspberry Pudding Cake

"How To Eat" by Nigella Lawson

Preparation Time: 20 Minutes
Difficulty Level: 3
Servings: 8

1-1/2 cups all-purpose (ie plain) flour
1-1/2 teaspoon baking powder
Pinch salt
1/3 cup best-quality unsweetened cocoa powder
8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter
1 tablespoon framboise
1/2 cup superfine sugar
1/2 cup light muscovado sugar or light brown sugar
8 ounces best-quality bittersweet chocolate
3/4 cup black coffee and 3/4 cup water, or instant
coffee made up with 2 teaspoons instant coffee and 1-1/2 cups
boiling water
2 eggs, beaten slightly
8 ounces raspberries plus more, for serving
Confectioners' sugar, for dusting

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Butter an 8-inch springform pan and line the base with baking
parchment. Sift the flour, baking powder, salt, and cocoa powder
together in a bowl and set aside. Put the butter, framboise,
sugars, chocolate, and coffee with water in a heavy-bottomed
saucepan and stir over low heat until everything melts and is
thickly, glossily smooth.
Stir this mixture into the sifted flour and cocoa. Beat well until
all is smooth and glossy again, then beat in the eggs. This will be
runny - don't panic, and don't add more flour; the chocolate itself
sets as it cooks and then cools.
Pour into the prepared pan until you have covered the base with about
an inch of the mixture, and then cover with raspberries and pour the
rest of the mixture on top. You may have to push some of the
raspberries back under the cake batter by hand. Bake 45-50 minutes,
until the top is firm and probably slightly cracked; don't try to
test by poking in a skewer as you don't want to come out clean; the
gunge is what the cake is about. When it's ready, take the cake out
of the oven and put on a rack. Leave in the pan for 15 minutes and
then turn out.
When you're just about to eat, dust the cake with the confectioners'
sugar tapped through a strainer. Serve with the additional berries,
piled in a bowl.

MrsBadger · 31/08/2006 14:11

UK measurements:

185 g self-raising flour
30 g cocoa powder
250 g unsalted butter
2 tablespoons crème de framboise
or 1 tablespoon eau de framboise
95 g caster sugar
95 g muscovado sugar
250 g dark chocolate
185 ml black coffee and 185 ml water,
or instant coffee made up with 2 teaspoons
instant coffee and 370 ml water
2 eggs, beaten slightly
250 g raspberries, plus more to serve.

180 degrees/gas mark 4, 22-23 cm springform.

Pidge · 31/08/2006 14:14

MrsBadger - you are a superstar - thank you. I will sort out the American cups. My parents lived in the US for two years, so they may even be in possession of the correct measuring vessels.

Am excited now.

Howdy Motherinferior - as you see even on holiday my baking obsession has me in its grip! Have already made plum crumble, apple and blackberry pie and the aforementioned pavlova this week. Good job I've got a high metabolism!

sugarfree - !

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womblingalong · 31/08/2006 14:14

Mrs Badge,

I bow down before your awesome internet/googling skills, Henceforth you shall be known as the "internet oracle" to me - how do you know so much about everything?

Pidge · 31/08/2006 14:14

oh my goodness have just seen the UK measurements - mumsnet truly is the answer to all life's problems!!

am off out with the kids - will let you know how the pudding turns out later ...

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MrsBadger · 31/08/2006 14:19

It's all in the syntax, don'tyerknow

[salivates at thought of cake but has lunchbox full of Healthy Fruit]

Pidge · 01/09/2006 09:35

Well, if I say so myself, it was a triumph. Luscious gooey dark chocolateyness, studded with the sharp tang of the raspberries, completed with a dollop of floppily whipped double cream on the side! What's more there are rather a lot of leftovers for today's supper.

Thanks again for the recipe ...

I'll be back to the healthy fruit myself once we're off holiday!

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PeachyClairHasBadHair · 01/09/2006 10:42

Doing a cake stal tomorrow, have done:

cho c and orange cake
mi8llionaires shortbread
coconut macaroons

al from domestic goddess and all just fab

Still ahve fairy cakes X 2, snickers muffins, flapjacks to do

Pidge · 02/09/2006 21:00

PeachyClair - I have a serious addiction to Nigella's millionnaire's shortbread - and I have discovered you can stick it in the freezer, and then defrost it on dead low in the microwave for a minute or two and thus always have it available! It's a lethal discovery, have had to stop making it or I would eat it every day.

Good luck with your cake stall.

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