lunes, 27 de julio de 2009

Incredibly spongy chocolate cake with a fluffy frosting



This is the perfect excuse for a dinner party. Or for showing off your cooking skills. It's not difficult to make, and the sponge keeps well in the fridge for days, it's so moist it melts in your mouth. You can use this sponge as a base for many cakes. But with this white frosting is delicious and the result is impressive. I have combined two celebrities recipes, Nigella Lawson and Rachel Allen, the sponge is Nigella's and the frosting is Rachel's, I hope they don't mind...























The chocolate sponge:
400 g plain flour
250 g sugar
100 g light muscovado sugar
50g cocoa powder
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
1/2 tsp salt
3 eggs
142 ml sour cream or buttermilk
1 tbsp vanilla extract
175 g unsalted butter
125 ml corn oil
300 ml chilled water


Method:


Preheat the oven to 180degrees/gas mark 4. Butter and line two 20cms sandwich tins. In a big bowl, mix the flour, sugars. cocoa, baking powder, bicarb and salt. In another bowl or jug whisk the eggs, sour cream and vanilla. In another bowl and withan electric mixer beat the butter and corn oil, then beatin the water. Sift one third of the dry ingredients into the butter mixture, then pour one third of the eggs mixture, and continue combining a third at a time until all is combined, pour in the prepared tins and bake in the oven for 50-55 minutes, or until a skewer comes away clean. Cool in the tins for 15 more minutes, then turn them onto a rack.








White frosting:
2 egg whites
200g sugar
50g golden syrup (or honey or maple syrup)
pinch of salt
1/4 tsp cream of tartar
2tbsp water
1 tsp vanilla extract

Place all the ingredients except the vanilla extract in a heatproof bowl over a saucepan of simmering water (don't let the bottom of the bowl touch the water) and whisk with an electric mixer of by hand until you get soft peaks. Remove from the heat, add the vanilla extract and continue whisking until the mixture gets stiffer. Now you have to work quickly, ice the middle of one of the cakes, and place on top of the other one, ice the top and sides of the cakes, and fluff it up to form little peaks. Allow 30 minutes for the frosting to get harder. Serve, eat and enjoy...




12 comentarios:

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  2. Wow, this cake looks amazing! I love the white fluffy frosting against the dark moist chocolate.

    Maria
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  3. Wow...
    This cake looks amazing.
    Thank you for the nice comment on my blog. I enjoy looking at your recipes too.
    Iffet

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  4. oh my goodness! i honestly don’t think i’ve ever encountered such a tender cake combined with such a light and fluffy and fabulous frosting! excellent cake from start to finish!

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  5. You have a great blog, and this cake looks yummy!
    I also add your blog to my links.

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  6. Thanks maria for your comment, let me now if you try it.

    xxx.

    pity

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  7. Hi Iffet, good to see you here, thanks for stopping by, i just bought baby aubergines and i am going to try your karniyarik. My mouth is watering already!

    xxx,

    pity

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  8. Grace, thankx so much for your lovely comment, and welcome to my blog,

    pity

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  9. The frosting has such a beautiful shine to it. Lovely!

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  10. Love the frosting! I had been having a baking week and the last cake I baked was an orange flavor cake with a frosting just like this. Your pictures are lovely! Thank you for stopping by.

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  11. Looks delicious! That frosting looks very similar to the one I used for my cupcakes.

    Thanks for visiting my blog!

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  12. I was referred to your blog because you made a comment on our blog and boy I am glad I followed the link. This recipe looks awesome (as do the others), I will definitely be making this sometime soon, it looks divine! Also loving the fact it doesn't have heaps of refined sugar, awesome.

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