For my boyfriend's birthday he requested a chocolate fudge cake, of which I was more than happy to make as we both have an undeniable love of chocolate. He debated a novelty character cake, but in the end decided to stick to something simple but completely delicious, and who do you turn to for that, why Nigella of course!
I found a recipe on Nigellas fantastic website that is always packed with delicious and delectable treats (never look if you're hungry!) and found the perfect one. If you want to have a go you can find the recipe here.
It's a wonderfully rich cake and the added sour cream in the sponge gives it a moist kick, so you're not overcome with a sickly sweet flavour. The recipe does call for corn oil but I couldn't find this so I substituted Sunflower oil instead. If you cannot find an oil specified in a recipe, generally an unflavoured vegetable oil or sunflower oil will work fine, and you know that you can use it up for other things. I hate having a buy a large pack or bottle of something for a recipe that I know i'm going to struggle to use before it goes off.
The cakes will rise like nobody's business in the oven, so make sure that when you line the tins you leave 3 - 4cm overlap from the top of the tin. This will make sure that none of the yummy mixture escapes and ends up burnt to the bottom of your oven. When it came to icing I gently levelled the tops, spread a quarter of the icing into the middle to sandwich the cakes and inverted the top cake to give a lovely flat surface to work on. I was excited to use my new turntable as I hoped it would make icing the cake easier, and it most certainly did! I dolloped the icing on top and spread it over the sides using a large palette knife, smoothing it back and forth over the top to give a bit of a pattern.
Unfortunately I had developed a pretty bad cold a couple of days befre my boyfriend's birthday, and had to box up the cake and give it to him to take over to his parents and friends whilst I crawled into bed. Luckily they saved me a bit and I was able to sample a sizeable slice curled up in a blanket.
Chocolate is most definitely medicinal, did you know that ?
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