So Mariette offered to make 40 little designer chocolate cakes for a friends baby shower. So I say cool baking, I will come help, of course forgetting that the woman is insane. So on Saturday I get a sms at 7 am saying, that she couldn’t sleep so she baked all night. I mean how mad is that? Then at 5 I get one saying right she is up and wake and good to decorate, sorry for you, too bad so sad, I going out. So Rochelle came round to help and they decorated until midnight. So I am kinda grateful that I was neglected and ignored, cause that sounds like slave labor to me.
Also despite all this work, Mariette didn’t take photos of the damn cakes.
But luckily I have tasted the practice run. Now along with being insane, she is also such a suck up. We go for dinner at friends, I take wine and crisps like a normal person, but Mariette brings a few perfectly crafted designer mini chocolate cakes, all neatly laid out in a hat box!
Chocolate Fudge Cake
For the cake
400g plain flour
250g golden caster sugar
100g light muscovado sugar
50g best quality cocoa powder
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
½ tsp salt
3 eggs
142ml/small tub of sour cream
1 tblsp vanilla extract
175g unsalted butter, melted and cooled
125ml corn oil
300ml chilled water
Method
Preheat the oven to 180
Butter and line the bottom of 2 20cm sandwich tins
In a large bowl, mix together the flour, sugars, cocoa, baking powder bicarb and salt.
In another bowl, whisk together the eggs, sour cream and vanilla until blended.
In another bowl, beat together the melted butter and corn oil until blended, , then beat in the water.
Add the dry ingredients all at once and mix together at a low speed. Add the egg mixture and mix again until everything is blended and then pour into prepared tins.
Bake the cakes for 50-55 min.
Cool cakes in their tins on wire rack for 15 min, then turn cakes out completely to cool on rack.
Wow did it taste good.. thought the icing was a bit sweet, but then I don’t like icing so am not one to judge, also thought that the rose petals were a bit strange. Not so much the taste, but the texture, but then as previously told I am a philistine so don’t listen to me. In general it looked delicious and tasted divine.
