April 6, 2012 by potatoface
easter chocolate cake
To be honest, you can make any spongy cake which goes well with chocolate. Spread chocolate ganache on top, decorate it with speckled chocolate eggs and you’ve got Easter cake.
If you prefer, go for chocolate all the way.
easter chocolate cake
Chocolate Easter cake
Ingredients:
200grams of flour
80 grams of cocoa
100 grams of sugar
1 teaspoon of bicarbonate soda
1 teaspoon of baking powder
3 eggs
1 tablespoon of vanilla extract
1/2 cup of espresso
175 grams of soft unsalted butter
pinch of salt
for chocolate ganache:
100 grams of dark chocolate
cup of cream
speckled eggs to decorate
1. Heat the oven to 180 C.
2. Mix all the ingredients in a large bowl till it’s combined. Don’t overdo it, just mix it gently till it’s smooth.
3. Lightly grease a round tin with butter and sprinkle with a bit of flour.
4. Spoon the mixture into the tin, smooth the top and bake on the middle shelf of the oven for about 40 minutes till it’s golden. Insert a skewer into the centre of the cake, if it comes out clean, your cake is done.
5. Let the cake cool. Then remove it from the tin.
6. For the chocolate ganache melt chocolate with cream over a pot of simmering water (low temperature, has to just simmer). When it’s melted, let it cool, then spread it over the top and sides of the cake. Decorate the top with little eggs.
Happy Easter!
chocolate cake
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September 29, 2011 by potatoface
I love autumn. The smell of decay, changing colours, crispness in the air in the morning, beautiful sunrise in the morning…aaahh. Always get really excited about this lovely season. And that’s the time of the year when I bake a lot. You have to get some love handles for the winter to keep you warm, and there is all this fantastic fruit and veg around. Brilliant! Recently I bought blueberries from Poland (ha! local to me) and I made a cake using what I found in my cupboards and fridge. Improvisation is the key to creation. So there it is. Enjoy.
Blueberry cake
Ingredients
1 and 1/2 glass of spelt flour
1 teaspoon of baking powder
1/2 teaspoon of baking soda
125 ml of natural yoghurt
1/4 glass of sugar
1/2 pack of unsalted butter (room temperature) or margarine.
2 eggs
3-4 spoons of vanilla essence
6 spoons of cinnamon
250 grams of blueberries
1. Mix flour, baking soda and powder together.
2. If butter is not room temperature, melt it. Wait until it cools down a bit. If it is room temperature, mix with sugar till it’s white and fluffy.
3. Add all the ingredients apart from blueberries to flour, mix well together. Leave it for 20 minutes on the side.
4. Coat blueberries with a bit of flour, add to the batter, mix gently. Butter the cake tin, pour the mixture into the tin, bake in 160 C for about 30-40 minutes. You can check if the cake is baked if you insert a toothpick (or simply wooden chopstick) in the middle of the cake and it comes out clean.
5. Leave it to cool, sprinkle with icing sugar.
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