I’m gradually making good on my “fantastic idea” to make all the cakes which pop up in my first novel, Art and Soul. This week it’s chocolate fudge cake, which is the favourite of Becky, my main character.
I searched around for a while, looking for a chocolate cake recipe I believed would produce the texture I wanted. I finally went with one from BBC Good Food and it’s delicious!
Ingredients
- 175 g self-raising flour
- 2 tbsp cocoa powder
- 1 tsp bicarbonate soda
- 150 g caster sugar
- 2 eggs (I used medium)
- 150 ml (1/4 pint) vegetable oil
- 150 ml (1/4 pint) semi skimmed milk (I used a mix of skimmed and full… it was what we had in the fridge!)
- 2 tbsp golden syrup
Method
- So easy. Sieve all the dry ingredients into a bowl and then put them in a food processor.
- Add the eggs, golden syrup, milk and oil. Blend everything until smooth.
- The mixture is quite liquid – that’s ok! Pour it into two, lined 7-inch round tins and then bake in an oven pre-heated to 180 degrees C for 25-30 minutes.
The mixture pre-bake is very runny – don’t be alarmed!
The cake after baking – rises nicely!
For the coating and filling – blend these ingredients together to form a smooth cream:
- 150 g butter/margarine
- 300 g icing sugar
- 3 tbsp cocoa powder
You don’t have to pipe the buttercream between the two cakes or on top, but I felt like giving rosettes a try. I covered the cake in a smooth-ish layer first, applying the buttercream with a knife, then used a piping bag fitted with a star tip to make the rosettes.
Smooth layer of buttercream before piping decorations
This cake is a great dessert when served warm with some ice cream!
Claire Huston / Art and Soul
I love Chocolate amd anything woth chocolate in it, on it or with it. And I especially love Chocolate fudge cake. And this post makes me crave it.
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I do too! I love chocolate fudge cake when it’s served warm with ice cream. 🙂
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We do have that in common then!
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That looks amazing! I might just have to make one just for me! x
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Thank you! It’s lovely and so easy to make. Dump all the ingredients in the processor, whiz and that’s it – my favourite type of recipe! 🙂
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Just WOWOWOWOWOOWOOW! Thanks for linking up to #tastytuesdays x
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Thank you! And thanks for hosting 🙂
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I am drooling over this cake! I think I will be the best mum when I try it this weekend x
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My little boy doesn’t talk yet, but he did go, “MMMmmm!” – a definite hit and so easy to make 🙂
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I will let you know how it goes I will try and make it look as fab as yours too!
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Oh yum, this looks good 🙂
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Thank you! It vanished pretty quickly… 🙂
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oh my goodness how gorgeous does this look??? Love the frosting swirls – I just want to dive on in lol xx
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wow this looks amazing!!! that chocolate frosting is such a lovely colour and i love the swirls x
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Thank you! I thought it would be really hard to do and it turned out to be fairly straightforward. I’ll make a better job of it next time 🙂
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Your rosettes are gorgeous. I love the aerial view! The cake itself looks very tasty too.
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Fionnuala from http://www.mykitchennotebook.blogspot.com
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Thank you! It was my first go and the piping bag split, so I hope to get better 🙂
Thanks for visiting – I’m off to have a proper look at your blog now. Love the sound of Blueberry Lemon Danishes!
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I think I gained half a pound reading the recipe. It sounds good!
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Thanks! it turned out really well and disappeared quickly 🙂
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If only there were a way to live blog the smell of it cooking! 🙂
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This was my hands down favourite treat as a child!! Looks so yummy my mouth is watering slightly….ok I’m drooling!! 😀 I love the idea of making all the foods associated with a book but it must feel so special when it’s your own.
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Thank you. It was delicious and disappeared very quickly! I made cupcakes today (new post tomorrow!) but I have to make my next bake something from my book. 🙂
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Your blog is going to make me fat, Claire.
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🙂
When I worked in an office, I baked A LOT because I could always take the cakes/brownies etc. to work and they would disappear and it cheered people up too. Then when it was just my husband and I, I quit baking for a while, because I was accused (unfairly, I might add) of making him fat. But now I have a toddler who burns everything he eats in about 5 seconds, I’m back to baking 🙂 I would add at this point that he does mostly eat healthy things… the odd bit of cake never did anyone any hard.
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It’s the same where I work, every time someone brings in food it’s gone within two hours 🙂 I used to bake more, too, but now that I work until 7pm every day and work on my book in the morning there’s less time for it. Still, I’ll make a few exceptions… 😉
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This looks gorgeous! I really like the piped rosette effect, I really must get myself a piping bag with all the bits. I’m a massive sucker for a generously iced chocolate cake, so I think I’ll pin this for next time chocolate cake is called for. Visiting via your more recent choc cake post, via your feature on Occupation (M)other which was a great read. I think I’ll be sticking around 🙂
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Thank you! 🙂
If I had to choose between the two cakes, I’d rather have the chocolate fudge cake (sorry, Mary Berry!). I think I’ll bake something not-chocolatey next week for balance. And then probably back to chocolate… 🙂
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Added to my list Claire! Oh wow! Hope you’ve been ok – Sorry I’ve not been keeping up with you very well 🙂
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This one is really easy to make and so delicious too 🙂 Particularly with some ice cream… one of my favourites!
We’re fine here, thanks. The usual toddler colds and snuffles, but otherwise fine. We’re making biscuits this afternoon 🙂 I hope you’re well!
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I’m well thanks. Too busy these days and I’m not getting what I want done really.
What kind of biccies?
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In theory, two tone, chocolate and plain biscuits. Mary Berry’s recipe, so I’m blaming her if it goes wrong! ha! 🙂
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Sweet geney mac, that icing is done amazingly! How great that you must be able to write so easily on baking, the book I’m writing at the moment is actually me living out my desires of really, really wanting to be able to bake and actually (in real life) the ability to produce something like this is way beyond a dream. Baby steps though, am still trying to master the icing on fairy cakes! Wow and well done x ps I adore the BBC Good Food website!
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Thank you! It was the first time I’d tried rosettes like this. I’d like to give it another go sometime with different colours on the same cake. But that’s a lot of faff with separating the buttercream and colouring it…
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