choc cake recp.please!

[Headfry]

Hi folks,

I really do need the most fantastic chocolate cake recipe ever!

Has to be fail safe and dead easy to make

There is a class for best choc cake made by a man for the village show.....

Mr HF might have a go.

We have an Aga so it will need to be an easy to bake recipe, none of this 180.50 deg then turn down to 175.75 deg stuff!

and needs the be made in two sandwich tins (think they are 7 or 8" will check tomorrow) dont want to buy more tins.

[milly2306]

hi
this recipe is for aga's:


Chocolate Cake
(18 cm/7" round tin)
Ingredients

175g/6 oz. butter
175g/6 oz. soft brown sugar
3 eggs, lightly beaten
25g/1 oz. black treacle
25g/1 oz. quality dark chocolate, melted
25g/1 oz. ground almonds
1 oz. cocoa
150g/5 oz. self raising flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
Method

Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
Beat in the black treacle. Mix in the eggs, a little at a time.
Add the ground almonds.
Stir the melted chocolate into the mixture.
Sieve the flour with the cocoa and baking powder, and fold in to the mixture, making sure that the finished mix does not look at all streaky.
Divide the mixture between the two greased, lined sandwich tins.
Level the mixture in the tins, and put into preheated oven to bake.

Baking

AGA - 2 OVEN: Bake on bottom shelf of ROASTING OVEN (with cold shelf over) about 20-25 minutes

AGA - 4 OVEN: Bake on lowest shelf of BAKING OVEN about 20-25 minutes.

When baked, leave the cakes in their tins for about 5 minutes before turning them on to a wire rack to cool completely before filling and icing with chocolate buttercream.

[HeyWayne]

Here's an absolute winner...

You will need

Ingredients:

1 cup of tea
300g of good quality chololate
2-3 ginger biscuits (or your favourite variety)
1 phone or internerd connection

Method:

For internerd connection go here: Cake Hole Drink your tea and dunk biscuits as required.

Once you've eaten the biscuits open the chocolate and break into small bitesize pieces. Place the first bitesize piece into your mouth and enjoy for several minutes before moving onto the next piece. Continue until all chocolate is consumed.

If you only have a phone, then call 01462 420553 and tell the dude what you are after.

Honestly - we had a chocolate cake from them as our wedding cake (coated with a white chocolate spiral thingy) and everyone who tried it said it was the best they've ever had. We've bought several from them since and every one has been a winner.

[Pumpkin Becki]

Only you would try to enter the village show with one of those cakes Wayne! I'm scared by the fact there are no prices!!

[Headfry]

But....but....but.... Mr HF has to bake it! that would be cheating
nice idea though- he he he

Thanks for the help, the Aga one is sim to last years entry! and yes it was very very yummy!
not placed though

What would make a good filling?

[Pumpkin Becki]

Raspberries and whipped cream
Black cherries and whipped cream
Melted chocolate mixed with whipped cream
alcohol and whipped cream...I can see a pattern forming

[percy charlie]

4oz sr flour, 4oz caster sugar, 4oz margerine, 2 eggs, splash of milk, 1oz cocoa powder
dont know about the aga but its gas 4 approx 20-30 mins until cocktail stick comes out clean.
sperate eggs cream marg,sugar and egg yolk together add milk sieve flour and cocoa and stir in until well mixed. whisk egg whited to form peaks the fold gentally into mixture until mixed in. bake in margerine greased tins.
allow to cool 5-10 mins turn out onto wire cooling rack.
i use this for my littleones birthday cake and its always tasty and light and fluffy.

[Hilary B]

I used to make a 'very chocolate cake'. Basic ingredients
4oz cooking chocolate (I used to use the cheap one, you would need a bit less if it was a quality chocolate)
4oz butter
4oz sugar
2 eggs
4oz SR flour
2oz cocoa powder
½tsp baking powder

Melt the chocolate, cream butter and sugar with melted chocolate, sieve flour, cocoa powder and baking powder together, the rest is just like any Victoria Sandwich recipe (and it's too long since I made one to remember the temp/timing details).
For filling
2oz chocolate
2 oz butter
icing sugar
Melt chocolate, cream with butter and a little icing sugar, adding as much icing sugar as it will take. Work quickly before it gets too cool. Spread (while still a bit warm) on cooled (but not too cold) lower layer, cover with top layer. Decorate top however you like, but I used to make extra filling and put that on the top. For fancy, finish with grated chocolate or crumbled' flake'.

[Birdie Wife]

I'm not a huge fan of chocolate cakes (though I can't live without chocolate... I know, don't ask me...) but Nigella's chocolate fudge cake is pure heaven with each slice, and really easy to make.

[tootles]

This is a good man cake;
Chocolate Beer Cake from Delia Online
I did it for a friends birthday a few years ago - yummy!!!!