Friday, August 24, 2012

A Surprise in the Making


Graeme and I are in the process of creating what we are going to get/create for our loved ones for Christmas. This little display of love is part of some of their surprise and truly just a shout out to Graeme and his incredible skills in the kitchen. 

This is a celebrated chocolate cake within Graeme's family called Dana's Chocolate Cake. The recipe itself is pretty simple, yet ever so good! If you want to make it yourself you will have to translate its measurement as they are all in the metric system! Enjoy!

1 2/3 cups flour
1 1/2 baking soda
1 1/2 cups sugar
2/3 cup cocoa powder
1 tsp salt
1 1/2 cups trim milk
100 g butter, melted
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla

Filling/Icing-
100 g butter
250 icing sugar
1/3 cup cocoa
milk to mix
1 tsp vanilla essence

Preheat oven to 350 degrees (I translated that portion for you :)). 

Grease loose bottom cake tin and line the base with a greaseproof paper. Mix all the main ingredients together and pour into prepared tin. Bake for at least 50 minutes. The cake will rise a lot and when cooked the center should spring back when gently pressed. 

To make the filing/icing, mix butter and dry ingredients together, adding a dash of milk and mixing together again, adding tiny amounts of milk until you achieve a thickish, soft, spreadable icing. Once finished add vanilla to the mix. 

Once cake has cooled spread filling/icing to your hearts content. 






2 comments:

hannabaorange said...

yum! I will definitely try this. I'm always looking for good chocolate cake recipes :) I'll tell you when I write about it on my food blog... it's hannasedibleescapades.blogspot.com if you want to look in the meantime. Not sure when I'll get a chance to make it hehe.

Emil said...

Yummy!