Posts about cake
Black Forest Double Chocolate Brownie Cake
2022-06-05 13:18
This recipe takes my Double chocolate raspberry brownie recipe up a level.
It consists of two raspberry brownie layers sandwiched around a dark cherry buttercream layer.
As with the original recipe, rather than white chocolate chunks you can also use a knife to turn a Milkybar bar into flakes.
Because the presentation is that of a cake, you don't necessarily need to use square tins for this, the only requirement is that both tins be the same size shape (if you've only got one tin, you can make one layer at a time, but it'll take longer).
Can be served on it's own, or with cream
Chocolate Torte
2021-07-07 13:39
Chocolate Torte can be very rich and heavy, but it can also be incredibly flexible.
This recipe gives the basis of a good (and heavy) torte, which can easily be modified - whether by adding rum/whisky to the mix, or by putting a layer of fruit (black cherry or raspberries are both winners) in the middle
Serve with double cream or ice-cream
Double Chocolate Raspberry Brownies
2019-07-07 14:01
These came about because we decided to make brownies, but I couldn't be arsed to deal with melting chocolate so wanted to make them with Cocoa only. Was a little bit worried that it'd result in a loss of volume though, so wanted to add something to bulk it back out.
My cake pan is actually too large for this recipe, and my mixing bowl too small to make more in one go. So, rather than buying and storing yet more kit, the approach we tend to take is to make one set of the mix, measure out new ingredients and then make another set. This means you can do layered stuff like (in the pic) having a darker layer with just raspberries in it beneath a lighter layer with raspberry and white chocolate
The volume loss of not having the chocolate isn't actually that great though (the coca increase offsets it quite well), so you can just as easily leave out the raspberries and white chocolate if you prefer straight brownies.
Chocolate Fondant
2019-05-22 12:09
Soft cakey outside, with gooey chocolate in the middle
The temperature of your oven will affect how firmness or softness these puddings come out. If the first pudding turned out of it's tin is too soft, then cook the remaining puddings for another couple of minutes.
Chocolate Brownies
2019-05-22 11:55
Everyone loves chocolate brownies...
Greek Walnut Cake
2019-05-09 14:56
Based on a recipe I used when I was younger, I've made a few variations of this but not had the forethought to write most of them down. Does work reasonably well with pears used in place of apples though