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[Alis girls]

I want to make a choc cake suitable for raffle prize - covered in yes you've guessed - chocolate - its for a Chocolate Easter raffle. needs to be fairly easy and cake decorating aint my forte so needs to be fool (!) proof. i have loads of books but the recipes on here come up trumps every time - thanks in advance everyone. Oh and it will contain eggs of course

[Charlottechicken]

I made a chocolate sponge on Friday. I use a basic sponge recipe with equal quantities of SR flour, sugar, eggs and Stork margerine, and a tsp of baking powder. However with the choccy cake you leave a bit of flour out and add 1oz of cocoa powder. Mix and put in 2 greased tins (if 2 egg mix use 7" if 3 egg mix use 8" tins). Bake for 15-20 mins at 190c.

 

Mix up around 6oz of icing sugar with a bit of water, couple oz butter and more cocoa powder, use this to sandwich the cakes together and cover the top and sides. You can leave the icing rough or grate some chocolate over it.

 

[chickencam]

This one is great and keeps pretty well.

 

Can't Go Wrong Chocolate Cake - from Mary Berry's Fast Cakes book.

 

190g plain flour

2 level tablespoons cocoa powder

1 level teaspoon bicarb of soda

1 level teaspoon baking powder

150g caster sugar

2 tablespoons golden syrup

2 eggs beaten

150ml corn oil

150ml milk

 

heat oven to 325/160 degrees gas mark 3 and grease and line the bases of two 8in 20cm sandwich tins with greaseproof paper.

 

sift the dry ingredients into a large mixing bowl, then make a well in the centre. Add syrup, eggs, oil and milk. beat well and pour into the tins

 

Bake in the oven for 30-35 minutes until the cake springs back when lightly pressed with the fingertips. Tutn out, remove paper and leave to cool on a wire rack.

 

Chocolate butter icing

 

50g butter

4 level tablespoons cocoa powder sieved

3 tablespoons milk

150g icing sugar sieved

 

gently melt butter in a pan add cocoa, blend and cook gently for 1 minute, then stir in the milk and icing sugar. remove from the heat and mix very well. leave on one side stirring occasionally until the icing thickens. Sandwick the cakes together with half the mixture and put the remainder on top, swirling with a knife to make an attractive pattern.

 

Also from the same book.

 

Chocolate Orange Cake

 

112g self raising flour

12.5g cocoa powder

1 level teaspoon baking powder

100g soft margarine

75g caster sugar

1 tablespoon golden syrup

2 eggs beaten

50g plain chocolate grated

grated rind and juice of one orange

 

heat oven to 325/160 gas mark 3. Grease and line with greaseproof paper a 7in/15.5cm round cake tin.

 

Place all the ingredients in a bowl and beat well for about 2 minutes until well blended.

 

Turn into the cake tin, smooth the top, then bake for 45 minutes or until the cake is well risen and shrcnk slightly from the sides of the tin and will spring back when lighly pressed with the fingertips.

 

Turn out and cool on a wire rack.

 

Both of these are tried and tested, dead easy, and much loved in my family.

[Mrs Webmuppet]

I have an idiot proof recipe............came from my school cookbook ( couldn't tell you what the metric version is), made it so many times I don't have to look it up any more

 

7oz SR Flour

1oz cocoa

6oz marg or butter

6oz caster sugar

3 eggs

a little milk

 

cream marg and sugar until light and fluffy, add eggs slowly (with a little of the flour to prevent curdling) then gently fold in the flour and cocoa adding a little milk to prevent the mix getting too stiff. Put mix in a lined 8in tin. Bake at about 200oc for 40 mins (ish).

 

Cool then melt chocolate cake topping and tip over whole cake (encase the cake) cool. Then eat!

 

Always a big hit at work this cake!

[Chickendoodle]

I have a fantastic chocolate loaf recipe-very moist and very easy

 

Take

4oz butter

4 tbs cocoa powder

4fl oz sunflower oil

8 fl oz water

 

Put all of above in a saucepan and bring to the boil

 

Take off heat and stir in 12oz caster sugar and 8oz SR flour (yes it really is 12 oz of sugar!)

 

Mix in a separate bowl

4fl oz milk

2 eggs

1/2 tsp bicarb

1 tsp vanilla extract

 

Then add to mixture in saucepan and stir until smooth

 

Pour into a lined 2 lb loaf tin (I buy liners in Lakeland) and bake for 1 to 1 1/4 hours at 180 degrees

 

Leave to cool in tin

 

I make a chocolate fudge topping as follows:

 

Melt 2oz butter, add 1oz cocoa powder and cook for 1 minute exactly. Stir in 8oz sifted icing sugar and 2 tbs milk (you must sift the icing sugar or the topping will have nasty white lumps in it)

 

I make this cake every week for a local shop !

[Patricia W]

Use the Wacky Cake recipe - nothing easier than that.

[emchook]

Chickendoodle .. that sounds fantastic .. is there any flour ?

 

I have decided to go with chicken cams cant go wrong cake as it needs to stay moist overnight .

off to buy eggs chickens are not up to the job

[Chickendoodle]

I panicked then! The flour is on the same line as the caster sugar - 8oz of SR

 

This cake also stays really moist - I have kept it for a week and it is still as good on day 7

 

Good luck with making whatever you choose

[emchook]

sorry - misread it !

I tried the cant go wrong cake .. and I think it went wrong.

I tripled the recipe but it took so long to cook it caught around the edges .. Its salvageable though with some thick ganache and smarties cut into squares it will by yum. Kids gave a taster the thumbs up !

 

I have decided to go with old faithful choc cake recipe that I have.

 

I am always up for experimenting though !!