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jamanda
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Posted: Sat May 23, 09 8:51 am Post subject: Chocolate Fudge Cake

Ingredients

For the cake:

400g plain flour

250g golden caster sugar

100g light muscovado sugar

50g best quality cocoa powder

2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp bicarbonate of soda

½ tsp salt

3 eggs

142ml/small tub sour cream

1 tbsp vanilla extract

175g unsalted butter, melted and cooled

125ml corn oil

300ml chilled water

For the Fudge Icing:

175g dark chocolate, minimum 70% cocoa solids

250g unsalted butter, softened

275g icing sugar, sifted

1 tbsp vanilla extract

Recipe

Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/gas mark 4.

Butter and line the bottom of two 20cm sandwich tins.

In a large bowl, mix together the flour, sugars, cocoa, baking powder, bicarb and salt.

In another bowl or jug, whisk together the eggs, sour cream and vanilla until blended.

Using a hand held electric mixer, beat together the melted butter and corn oil until just blended (you’ll need the largest bowl for this) then beat in the water. Add the dry ingredients all at once and mix together on a slow speed.

Add the egg mixture, and mix again until everything is blended and then pour into the prepared tins. And actually, you could easily do this manually;

Bake the cakes for 50-55 minutes, or until a cake-tester comes out clean. Cool the cakes in their tins on a wire rack for 15 minutes, and then turn the cakes out onto the rack to cool completely.

To make the icing, melt the chocolate in the microwave – 2-3 minutes on medium should do it – or in a bowl sitting over a pan of simmering water, and let cool slightly.

In another bowl, beat the butter until it's soft and creamy (again, I use the KitchenAid here) and then add the sieved icing sugar and beat again until everything's light and fluffy. I know sieving is a pain, the one job in the kitchen I really hate, but you have to do it or the icing will be unsoothingly lumpy. Then gently add the vanilla and chocolate and mix together until everything is glossy and smooth.

Sandwich the middle of the cake with about a quarter of the icing, and then ice the top and sides, too, spreading and smoothing with a rubber spatula.

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Last edited by jamanda on Thu Aug 30, 12 2:24 pm; edited 7 times in total

jamanda
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Posted: Tue Jun 30, 09 8:31 pm Post subject:
Cathryn, Yoo Hoo! Is this the one you made for my birthday?

jamanda
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Posted: Wed Jul 01, 09 6:54 am Post subject:
Bump

Cathryn

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Posted: Wed Jul 01, 09 7:30 am Post subject:
ummm, I think it was one off here from that woman's cookbook, Nigella. I don't have the book but someone on here posted it.

Bebo

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Location: East Sussex

Posted: Wed Jul 01, 09 7:35 am Post subject:
Jamanda, the recipe you posted is Chocolate Fudge Cake from Nigella Bites (I've just compared it to the book and it matches).

sean
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Posted: Wed Jul 01, 09 9:42 am Post subject:
I reckon that was the one then.

bagpuss

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Posted: Wed Jul 01, 09 9:54 am Post subject:
thought the recipe looked familiar nice but doesn't beat a good old fashioned chocolate sponge

sean
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Posted: Wed Jul 01, 09 9:57 am Post subject:
Boy Wonder wants chocolate fudge cake for his birthday though.

Cathryn

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Location: Ceredigion

Posted: Wed Jul 01, 09 10:42 am Post subject:
Remember this size will feed about 30, it's that rich.

jamanda
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Location: Devon

Posted: Wed Jul 01, 09 11:00 am Post subject:
Well I have a flock of gannets at work that will demolish any excess cake, even if it's a couple of days old!

earthyvirgo

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Location: creating prints in the loft, Gerlan

Posted: Wed Jul 01, 09 11:08 am Post subject:
You cruel, cruel woman Trying to cut down on naughty foods and what do you do? - post a recipe like that all ready for printing off! EV

jamanda
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Posted: Thu Jul 09, 09 5:39 pm Post subject:
The finished product.

jamanda
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Posted: Tue Jul 08, 14 6:35 pm Post subject:
same boy, same recipe. A few more candles.

tahir

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Location: Essex

Posted: Tue Jul 08, 14 6:48 pm Post subject:
Them maltesers have changed colour a bit

gythagirl

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Location: Somerset

Posted: Tue Jul 08, 14 7:51 pm Post subject:
Maltesers too - SO unfair!

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