March 31, 2010
Chocolate Birthday Cake Recipe
My soon to be eight year old son has asked me to make him a chocolate cake for his birthday party Who knows why!). He also want it to be iced with white sugar icing and decorated. So I need a good recipe for chocolate cake. Do you think it would be best to use ready-to-roll icing or royal icing? Also, do you think I will still need to put a thin layer of almond paste/marzipan between cake and icing? Thank you in anticipation of all your help.
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Try this Chocolate Cake Recipe
The icing is a piece of cake to make. (sorry for the pun)
250g self-raising flour
250g unrefined soft brown sugar
50g cocoa
250g plain chocolate
250g butter
4 eggs
ICING
400g plain or milk chocolate
284ml pot single cream
25g butter
100-200g icing sugar
cocoa powder for dusting
Heat the oven to 160C/fan 140C/gas 3. Line a 20cm x 20cm square cake tin.
Mix the flour, sugar and cocoa together in a bowl. Melt the chocolate and butter together with 200ml water in a pan and then beat this along with the eggs into the dry mixture. Pour into the cake tin and bake for 1 hour or until a skewer comes out clean. It may crack a little on top but this will be covered by the icing. Cool.
To make the icing, melt the chocolate with the cream and butter until smooth and then cool to a spreadable consistency, beat in enough icing sugar to make the icing opaque and stiff.
Slice the cake horizontally into 2 or 3 layers and spread some icing between each layer. Ice the outside of the cake in a thick even layer and smooth the icing down as much as possible, don’t worry about the top too much.
Dust with cocoa powder just before serving.