Chocolate cake recipe needed for v fussy DH, (who normally criticises my admittedly poor attempts to bake)

[gio71]

DH's stipulations, it must be:
Moist
V Chocolatey
Ideally made with plain chocolate rather than cocoa
More on the side of rich chocolatey rather than overly sweet

My stipulations, it must be:
easy to make
have nice cake mixture scrapings

Really hope someone can help cos if I hear once more about what an amazing chocolate cake his mother used to make it won't be pretty......

Try BBC Good Food website. Their recipes are usually foolproof.
Look here
Good Luck!!

if he's that fussy tell him to do it himself!!!

good luck anyway.

Umm if he is that rude and fussy I wouldn't bother. Tell him tomake one himself and see if he can make it fit his exact criteria.

as i recall nigella did a chocolate christmas cake that had prunes in it to keep it moist...

guess that could go either way depending on how you feel about prunes...

but i agree that if you're making something for someone and doing your best they should blimmin well appreciate the effort and not pick holes...

I would do Victoria sandwich with a bit of cocoa powder and melt a bar of plain chocolate to add to the mix!

3 eggs
6 oz butter/marg
6 oz caster sugar
4 oz SR flour
2 ox cocoa powder
Small bar chocolate

Cream butter and sugar. add eggs and dry ingredients. Add melted choc. Bake in sandwich tins about 180C for 20 min.

These are making me hungry, gutted dont have ingredients in, could SO eat chocolate cake now
Thanks all

I use a chocolate brownie mix to either make brownies, or a cake. Is foolproff ...

1. Mix 8oz butter with 16 oz sugar
2. Gradually beat in 4 eggs, a splash of milk and a couple of drops of vanilla essence (not essential)
3. Mix in 8 oz of sifted plain flour and 3 oz of sifted cocoa

Pour into a cake tin and bake at around 170 C for 25 mins (a bit higher temp if your oven isn't fan assisted). Then stick in knife or scewer - it should be moist, but not liquid ie the knife can have a bit of mixture on it but shouldn't be coated. If it seems undercooked then put it back in for another 5 mins and then test again. Hope that makes sense?

This should be a moist, dense cake and, therefore, is better if it is a bit under-cooked rather than over-cooked

I top it with chocolate butter icing

Good luck with whichever one you decide to cook....

nigel slater's chocolate espresso cake

in "real food" if you have got that but i just successfully googled it (don't know how to do links tho)

quite flat and gooey, so relatively foolproof just don't overcook it