Birthday cake ideas

[goingfor3]

I am going to make a birthday cake for my friends birthday. I usually make an amazing lemon cake with Duchy lemon curd but I fancy a change. Any ideas?

(i know this has been done to death and I'm sorry!)

I always make the Chocolate Birthday cake from Nigella's How to Eat book - that recipe never fails me..and it tastes delicious!!!

Thanks for replying! Is the recipe online any where?

I have no idea TBH! Hang on will grab book for you and try and give you a condensed version

for cake:
225g s/r flour
30g best cocoa
200g caster sugar
100g unsalted butter
200g condensed milk
100g best quality dark chocolate
2 eggs beaten

for choc ganache:
250g best quality choc
250ml double cream

sieve flour,cocoa, pinch salt in large bowl.

put sugar, butter, condensed milk, 100ml just boiled water and choc broken into pieces in saucepan - melt until smooth. Then stir into flour mixture and beat in the eggs

put into 2 buttered 20cm springform cake tins and bake for 35-45 mins at 180 deg C

i do a nigella one too. her buttermilk bday cake from the domestic godess book. yum.

For ganache - chop up choc in food processor (or by hand) and put in shallow bowl. Heat cream to boiling and pour over chocolate. leave for 5 mins then beat until thick and glossy. Put some between 2 cake layers and smother the rest all over!

BE WARNED - This is a VERY chocolatey cake!

Washersaurus - Thank you so much for typing that out for me, that's very kind! It looks perfect, will let you know how well it goes down!!!!