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Has anyone got a FOOLPROOF recipie for a YUMMY chocolate cake???

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ludaloo · 24/01/2007 20:22

Please??

Thank you in advance

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ludaloo · 24/01/2007 20:25

I have just made Marslady's really scrummy lemon drizzle cake...but the kids aren't keen on the lemon, dd1 wants chocolate....sheesh they have NO taste!!!!!

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mamama · 24/01/2007 20:25

Depends how easy you want it to be. A basic one would be:

80g Self raising flour
20g cocoa powder
100g caster sugar
100g butter
2 eggs

Bake on 180 for 20 - 30 mins

It's just a victoria sponge with chocolate. I sandwich it together either with chocolate butter icing or melted chocolate.

If you want something gooier, there are better recipes.

Carmenere · 24/01/2007 20:26

Nigella's choc fudge cake is fab.

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ludaloo · 24/01/2007 20:27

oh thanks...easy is good as I'm not a fantastic cook, but gooey is good too...

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Sheraz · 24/01/2007 20:30

nigellas chocolate and guiness cake- only cake I have ever made and is easy and delish if I could cut and pste would do so but am fick!

mamama · 24/01/2007 20:31

I can post another recipe later if you need stickier but the one below take 10 mins to make, if that and never fails. You can make it in a cake tin, a loaf tin or as fairy cakes.

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ludaloo · 24/01/2007 20:32

Does anyone have a link for nigellas fudge cake...or does she have a web site?

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snuffy143 · 24/01/2007 20:32

My Mum's recipe is really easy - 6oz SR flour, 6oz butter, 6oz gran sugar, 3 eggs, 3oz drinking choc and 3 tablespoons boiling water. Mix all together. Bake all in one in an 8 inch round greased tin on gas 5 for 45 mins. Split and fill with butter cream and dust with icing sugar. Never fails!

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ludaloo · 24/01/2007 20:34

mamamma...thank you...I'll try that one...if it never fails then its a good thing! The butter icing...just butter, icing and cocoa powder??? Or is hot choc powder better?

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ItsMeMellowma · 24/01/2007 20:35

Snuffy thats not your mums recipie thats my nans recipe

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ludaloo · 24/01/2007 20:37

thanks snuffy..have written that one down too

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abouttoloseit · 24/01/2007 21:33

My sister gave me this which made me laugh as she CANNOT make cakes! Proved me wrong - this is simple and really fudgy. I tend to put the topping on when the cake is still slightly warm as it oozes on and makes it really sticky.

3tbs cocoa powder
3tbs hot water
6oz marg
6oz caster sugar
3 eggs beaten
6oz SR flour sifted
2tsp baking powder

Topping
3o3 butter
2o3 cocoa
4tbs milk
8o3 icing sugar

Method

  1. Mix together cocoa and hot water.
  2. Cream together marg and sugar.
  3. Add flour, eggs, and baking powder.
  4. Mix in the cocoa and hot water.
  5. Put into a tin lined with greaseproof paper and bake for 40mins at 180˚C

For topping

  1. Cook butter and cocoa powder in the microwave for 1 min
  2. Beat in the milk and icing sugar
  3. Allow to cool before spreading over the top of the cake.
mamama · 25/01/2007 02:52

cocoa powder in the butter icing - I don;t really do quantities for it - just mash up some butter, seive in some icing sugar and cocoa powder and mis until it's the right consistency. Someone must have a recipe for it. I'm sure you can find one online too. Let us know how your baking goes!

rosebud1980 · 25/01/2007 11:30

For the choocolate sponge.
6oz of butter
6oz sugar
6oz flour
3 eggs
tbs of baking powder
2oz cocoa powder

I make chocolate butter cream for the middle and melted chocolate mixed in with double cream for the topping best chocolate ive made.

snuffy143 · 25/01/2007 18:48

Did you make a cake, Ludaloo? How'd it turn out? I've currently got choc chip fairy cakes exploding out of my oven...should have measured the baking powder rather than guessing!!

SoupDragon · 25/01/2007 18:54

OK, so you've made MarsLady's lemon drizzle cake successfully.... Leave out the lemon, add 2 tablespoons of cocoa powder and add some extra milk to make the consistency right. Throw in a 200g bar of plain chocolate which youve chopped into chunks. Bake as per lemon drizzle.

Make a chocolate syrup with 2 teaspoons cocoa, 25oml water (although I don't think you need nearly this much) and 200g caster sugar. Bung in a pan and boil for about 5 minutes or until it's reduced to a more syrupy consistencey. Prick warm cake witha fork/kebab skewer and carefully drizzle over so it soaks in. Or just ice it with chocolate icing!!

Trust me (and MarsLady, after all it was her idea)

BecauseImWorthIt · 26/01/2007 16:49

Have you got Nigella's 'How to Eat' book? There's a fantastic chocolate cake in there in the basics section at the front (I think). The cake is made using chocolate, butter and condensed milk, with a little flour. (Seems odd using condensed milk but it really does work!)

There's no whisking/creaming and it's very easy and very, very yummy. I now have to make this every year for my boys' birthdays.

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ludaloo · 30/01/2007 13:09

Thankyou very much for all your help and recipies...I have written them all down...I actually made Snuffy's cake...very nice too...and it was very easy. So thank you

Soupdragon....I have only just spied your post...OMG I have to try this next! (my family will be sick of chocolate cake!!!....they did ask me though so I'm only fulfilling their wishes! )

I bet this is nice...the lemon cake was really yummy...

THANK YOU EVERYONE

Thanks to Marslady too xxxxx

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ludaloo · 30/01/2007 13:15

p.s...BIWI...I'll keep on the look out for the Nigella book, I don't have it but will see if I can find one. It does sound nice.

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hoxtonchick · 30/01/2007 13:19

i have nigellas choc birthday cake sitting in the kithen right now for ds party this afternoon .

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ludaloo · 30/01/2007 13:20

ooooooohhhhhh! Yum! Happy Birthday for your ds by the way

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hoxtonchick · 30/01/2007 13:28

thanks . the one i made for his 3rd party was such a disaster.......

DimpledThighs · 30/01/2007 14:10

BecauseImWorthIt - because of what you said I made that very cake and it is the best choc cake ever!

Ludaloo - you must make it please make it make it now it is easy and tastes like some fancy pudding from a Gordon ramsey - make it. In fact will post recipe later.

You ALL HAVE TO MAKE IT!

skinnygirlNOT · 30/01/2007 18:18

Please post recipe soon so I've time to dash to Tesco's and bake it before bed time!!!

DimpledThighs · 30/01/2007 18:54

okay, one of the best things about this cake is that you will have most of it in the cupboard, aside from choc and condensed milk.

225g sr flour
30g good cocoa
200g caster sugar
100g unsalted butter
200g condensed milk ( about half a tin, darn you have to make two!)
100g good plain choc
2 eggs

  1. heat oven to 180c/gas mark 4
  1. butter 20cm springform or two sandwich tins and line with parchment
  2. sieve flour, cocoa and pinch of salt into large bowl
  1. put sugar, condensed milk, butter and 100ml of just boiled water and choc in small pieces in sucepan and heat until melted (I do this in a low microwave)

5.stir melted stuff into flour and stir until glossy

  1. add eggs
  1. bake for 35-40 mins

There is then a recipe for a ganach but I had it warm from the oven with ice cream. It is all kind of gooey in the middle. YUM!