Chocolate Fudge Cake

Chocolate Fudge Cake

I made this for my son’s birthday cake at his request.  I have to say that chocolate fudge cake isn’t one of my favourites but this is very nice.  I found the recipe on Nigella’s site.

Ultimate Chocolate Cake

Ultimate Chocolate Cake

This is based on another recipe from the BBC Good Food website.  It was made as a birthday cake for my husband and is decedent and delicious!

Chocolate Treacle Sandwich Cake

Chocolate Treacle Sandwich Cake

This chocolate cake is moist but light and delicate and the treacle adds a darker note to the chocolate flavour.

Chocolate and Caramel Layer Cake

Chocolate and Caramel Layer Cake

I made this as a birthday cake for my son who loves gooey chocolate cake.  The recipe is from the BBC Good Food Website.  It is a delicious but very rich cake and my son and his friends loved it.

Dense Chocolate Loaf Cake

Dense Chocolate Loaf Cake

This fantastic cake is from Nigella Lawson’s How to be a Domestic Goddess book but it can be found here if you don’t have to book.  I love this recipe but find that it makes too much for one normal 2lb loaf tin and not quite enough for 2 (which is what I made today).  In the past I have tried to squeeze it into one tin and found about half of it on the bottom of my oven!

Banana and Chocolate Loaf

I’ve discovered two things whilst writing this blog;

1. It is much harder than I thought to take good photos of food – especially with a ‘point and click camera’ and on dark evenings when the kitchen is poorly lit
2. Most cake/biscuit/bread recipes are very similar – does that make the blog boring?

Any variety of cake made with banana and chocolate is a favourite of one of my boys which is a good things as we often have overripe bananas in the fruit bowl that no one will eat!

Chocolate Puddle Pudding

 

My Granny used to make chocolate puddle pudding when we went to stay.  It is one of these clever puddings where the sauce starts off on the top before you cook it but is underneath after!  It tastes much nicer than I could get the photograph to look…

First make a traditional chocolate cake batter; cream flour and sugar, beat in egg and fold in sifted flour and cocoa.  Put this in the bottom of a greased dish.  Then mix together some muscovado sugar, cocoa and boiling water and mix to a smooth runny paste.  Whilst it is still hot pour on top of the cake batter and then bake it in a medium oven for about half an hour – the longer you cook it the less sauce and the more cake you end up with.