After the milk tart André seemed to be in a sweet mood - he wanted chocolate cake. It's his birthday next week so I decided to bake a pre-birthday cake. I have this great chocolate cake recipe, it's the best, well I think so, but André doesn't. He wanted a traditional chocolate cake with two layers and it had to have a caramel and apricot jam filling. Mmm. Ok, so we had to go buy a cake tin, that ring thingy for baking a round cake in.
The recipe didn't tell me how long to bake the cake for, it only said bake until a knife comes out clear when you test it. So I opened the oven about four times to check. When it came out clean, I left it an extra 5 min - just to be sure. Well. Don't do that. Our chocolate cake turned out nice and crispy around the edges and on top! Not too bad though, we're still enjoying it!!
Ingredients:
Mix 90 g cocoa with 130 g brown sugar.
Heat 285 ml milk on medium heat until it starts to bubble.
Gradually add the cocoa-sugar mixture. Beat until smooth and leave to cool.
Cream 125 g butter.
Gradually add 250 g caster sugar.
Add 3 eggs, one at a time.
Add 1 t vanilla essence.
Beat until light.
Sift together 250 g flour + 1 t baking powder + 1 t baking soda.
Add alternately with cocoa mixture to butter mixture.
Beat until smooth.
Bake at 180 C for approximately 60 min. But do check before- you don't want it over done like mine!
Then we cut the cake in half with a piece of thread, or André cut it. Spread apricot jam on the bottom half with caramel over the jam. Place the top half onto this spread and spread icing and decorate! We made icing using butter, powder sugar and cocoa.
Doesn't this look delicious? Mmmm...
You want a bite?
Oh, you want to taste the apricot - caramel inside? Surprisingly good isn't it?
Ok, that's enough now. The rest is mine. Go bake your own!
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