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I promised you this recipe and here it is it is really nice and so easy to make.
Chocolate Cake :D:D:eat:
125g/4 1/2 oz Soft Margarine
125g/4 1/2 oz Caster Sugar
2 eggs
1 tablespoon of Golden Syrup
125g/4 1/2 oz Self raising flour
2 tablespoons of Cocoa powder.
Filling and Topping
50g/1 3/4oz Icing Sugar
25g/1oz Butter
100g/3 oz milk cooking chocolate (I used to use a whole bar of cooking chocolate)
Lightly grease two 8cm/7in cake tins. Preheat oven to 190c/325f/gas 5
Place all of the ingredients for the cake into a large mixing bowl and beat to form a smooth mixture.
Divide the mixture between the two tins and level and place into the preheated over for 20 mins or until springy to the touch. Cool for a few moments in the tins and then turn out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
To make the icing filling, beat the icing sugar and butter together in a bowl until light and fluffy. Melt the cooking chocolate and beat into half into the butter mixture. Use this filing to sandwich the two halves of the cake together.
Spread the remaining chocolate over the top of the cake.
I hope you enjoy, I did notice with this cake that it did not keep well, I used to keep it in the fridge, but 2/3 days max.
:thumbs: Wicked, I'll be definitely giving this a go!! My sandwich pans are at the ready :chef: :D
Oh dear, more chocolate to melt....eeek! :o
:lol:
Hi Mazza
How did you get on with the Jaffa Cake Pudding, sorry i left it so long but got an eye infection in both eyes on Thursday spent most of Thursday at Moorfields eye Hospital and then spent Friday at home "banging my head" against the wall because both eyes with itching and very sore and I must not scratch. But I am ok now.
StoneHenge
04-02-08, 05:09 PM
Glad the eyes are better. I know how that feels!
That chocolate cake sounds so easy to make. I still have to make the pear cake you posted though!!! Oh, the pounds are going to pile!!!! he he!!
I think tomorrow will be Steak, Mushroom & Guiness Pie, a nice winter warmer:D its great that I can pass these onto you, we used to enjoy them so much and I am glad that they are not being wasted, it has taken years and years to collect these receipes, I do have others, but they are not as nice as the ones that I am posting now. These are recepes that I have written in my own personal cook book, and some of them are over 20 years old. I am trying to convert some of them, but some of them I can't I just want to know how I can make marzipan without using icing sugar, I can use sweetner for sugar, but Icing sugar is a little awkward, but I will have a play and see what I can come up with then at Ester I can have simnel cake, I will be posting a receipe for that one later on, it is just so simple really.
Hi Isis, I am so sorry about your eyes, that's nasty :( . A few years ago I ended up in Moorfields too with a blocked tear duct - it was hideous!! two nurses had to literally hold me down whilst the consultant tried to 'flush' the duct out!!! :o It was so hideous, and it didn't even work so they said they could do no more for me since I was struggling with them so much and they sent me away!!!! But after I'd left the building and was on City Road, a whole load of gick fell down my throat and I was all better :rolleyes: - there you wanted to know that, didn't you!! :hihi:
Anyway, yes!!! We tried the jaffa cake pud! It was very nice, but I did nearly have a heart attack at all the cream that went into it, so it's definitely a 'special occasion' only recipe! The idea is great though, I just wonder if the choc topping can be modified a little (so I can eat some without the calories)? My lads had a friend round and he had seconds and thirds!! :lol:
I am really looking forward to trying this cake - I really want to know how to do a good choc cake for birthdays, so I will practise this one on the weekend I think :) .
Planet 24
04-02-08, 10:46 PM
I cant eat chocolate at all Isis but this Steak, Mushroom & Guiness Pie sounds good. It has to be foolproof mind- I am a fool in the kitchen - you don't want to know what I've just done to 2 chicken kievs - no supper tonight:huh: My poor OH all day without a hot meal - and now a little longer.:( Doghouse for me ...again.:(
Hi Mazza
That is why I always use Elmlea, it is a cream substitute and I think it is supposed to have hald the fat of cream, if you buy the Elmlea light even better, but saying that, when I had to see the dietician, I was loosing a stone a month, she said not to have it at all, so bang went cream substitute, I actually am not a great lover of fresh cream, much preferred Elmlea.
Oh my god poor you, no they did not have to hold me down, but I met my Hubby (who took me home) he announced in a very loud voice that I had yellow dye down my face, oh how attractive I must have looked walking in London :rolleyes: Mind you he is not known if being descrete, one holiday we went to a very romantic restaurant and I said come on why don't you try and be romantic, ok his idea of romantic is "cor did you know that you have a hugh gnat bit on your forhead":eek: great completly ruined everything.:rolleyes:
:D:D