Advantages: Delicious taste, quite easy to make. Disadvantages: Not very good for your waistline, or your wallet!
This is my recipe for a chocolate slab cake which I have made a few times recently and always seems to go down a treat.
Ingredients Required:
For cake:
200g butter, plus extra for greasing
100g dark chocolate, broken up in to pieces
75ml tap water
350g plain floud
2 teaspoons of baking powder
250g soft light brown sugar
75ml soured cream
2 eggs, beaten
For Icing:
200g dark chocolate, broken up in to pieces
6 tablespoons of tap water
3 tablespoons of single cream
1 tablespoon of butter (chilled)
To make the cake:
Preheat the oven to 190 degrees/gas mark 5. Grease a 33x20cm (13x8inch) cake tin and line the bottom of the tin with baking paper. I grease my tin with butter and use greaseproof paper for lining the tray.
Melt the 200g of butter, 100g dark chocolate with the 75ml of tap water in a saucepan over a low ...
Advantages: Not too high in cholesterol Disadvantages: Still a lot of calories
This is a good cake recipe for anyone concerned about their cholesterol level, as it uses just one egg and you can use skimmed milk to mix. Making the icing with plain chocolate also increases the goodness of this cake. The butter could be substituted by a healthier option such as margarine, but low-fat spreads are not suitable for cake making because of their high water content.
175 g (6 oz) self-raising flour
5 ml (1 tsp) baking powder
30 g (1 oz) cocoa powder
a pinch of salt
110 g (3 ½ oz) butter
60 g (2 oz) desiccated coconut
125 g (4 oz) sugar
1 egg
5 ml (1 tsp) vanilla essence
150 ml (5 fl oz) milk to mix
Sift the flour, baking powder, cocoa powder, and salt into a basin. Rub the butter into these dry ingredients, add the coconut and sugar, and stir in the beaten egg. Lightly mix in the vanilla essence, then add ...
Advantages: very rich and full of flavour Disadvantages: calories (an awfull lot)
of the spoon. Don't overheat it though. Then pour it over the cake and let it trickle down the sides. Then chill it until it is set.
I didn't use the icing for the cake in the picture I have included. I used a butter cream and then covered it in grated chocolate.
Then I made some decorations for it. These look really good but are very easy.
1) decide on a decoration
2) Draw it on greaseproof paper.
3) Melt some chocolate in a dish over a pan.
4) Put melted chocolate into a piping bag with a writing nozzle on the end and pipe round your design and fill in the middle.
5) Leave to go cold, peel off and put on your cake. ...
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