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.

Chocolate Fudge Cake

This is a cake for my son’s birthday.   He loves chocolate fudge cake and this looks impressive but is deceptively simple to make.

First cocoa is mixed with boiling water then all of the rest of the cake ingredients are beaten in (butter, eggs, self raising flour, sugar, baking powder and milk) until a smooth batter is achieved.

Bake in two cake tins and then when cooled warm some smooth apricot jam and brush on top of each half to help prevent crumbs mixing with the icing.

The icing is just double cream heated in a bowl over a pan of boiling water with some dark chocolate.   When the mixture has cooled it becomes stiff enough to spread.  I put about 1/3 inside the cake and 2/3 on the top.

As this is for a birthday and decorated the top with Maltesers (the more chocolate the better!) and birthday candles.

In the past I have made half as much cake mixture and twice as much icing and made a 3 layer cake which was also iced down the sides.