I need a FABULOUS chocolate cake recipe, preferably without too many ingredients

[MamaG]

for a party tonight

Do you have Nigella's How to Eat? The "basic birthday cake" is very good and very easy. Alternatively, there's a choc-pistachio cake in Domestic Goddess which is a bit more soignee but also very easy.

I don't have How to eat. I have domestic goddess and have been looking at the choc fudge cake.

Lapin tht looks nice, but no cointreau and I'm not bloody buying any

in Domestic Goddess, do the chocolate marsala cake with out the marsala. It's perfect

yep, the basic birthday cake is great and all done in the mixer, as i recall. super easy and nice icing. half the vanilla at least, though, nigella is mad for the vanilla.

where's my invitation ... I love chocolate cake.... and really simple choc icing is melted good choc with double cream stirred in quickly, lovely and fudgy.

This is one of my favourites - without Cointreau for kids but much nicer with

Chocolate Orange Cloud Cake
(Nigella Lawson)
Cake:

250g bitter chocolate
125g butter
6 eggs (2 whole, 4 seperated)
175g caster sugar
2 tbs Cointreau (optional)
grated zest 1 orange (optional)

Cream topping:

500ml double cream
splash vanilla extract
1 tbs Cointreau (optional)
cocoa powder to dust

Method:

Preheat oven to 180C. Line bottom of 23cm springform tin with baking parchment.
Melt chocolate and butter together.
Beat 2 whole eggs and 4 yolks with 75g sugar and mix into chocolate and butter, along with Cointreau and zest.
Whisk egg whites and gradually add sugar. Fold into rest of mixture.

Bake for 35-40 minutes ? should be set and slightly cracked. Cool in the tin on a wire rack. When ready to serve, put the tin on serving plate and unmould. Gently whip the cream, fold in other ingredients and dollop into the crater on the cake. Dust with cocoa.

in fact, I love that damned cloud cake so much I will have to go and make one for tonight now too...........drooling

great minds littlelapin! I defy anyone to make that, think it was hard and then not want to eat it. All. Themselves

Shall be less of a lazy bitch in future and will look at the links

oooh recipe please

cheers shall be tootling off to Waitrose later anyway. God I love that shop.

mm that trifle sounds divine

Turkish Delight in trifle? - genius!

so what did you make MamaG? And were people appropriately grateful for your culinary efforts?