Pizza and Cake

zoe — Wed, 14 May 2008 18:32:45 +0000

I have been craving cake for days – I am female and cake cravings are entirely normal. When I got home from work I decided that I would have to do something about it and recalled a cake that Auntie Ganching had made with chocolate and marmalade – Store Cupboard Chocolate-Orange Cake. The recipe is from How to Be a Domestic Goddess by Nigella Lawson and starts off by saying that it is the sort of cake you can make in a few minutes once you get home from work. A few (rather a few!) minutes later and I had a chocolate cake in the oven. Most of my dithering was over whether or not to put in marmalade, cloudberry or pear & ginger jams. I decided on a mixture of marmalade and pear & ginger. It smells good. I will report later as to taste.

Also on the menu is pizza, which I must now assemble.

Update:

Both pizza and cake were yummy.

Chocolate Whiskey Cake

zoe — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 09:49:23 +0000

Chocolate Whiskey Cake

Originally uploaded by ZMB.

Recipe provided by Dave’s mum.

Grease a 18cm springform tin.

Ingredients

2 eggs
2 dsp caster sugar
225g unsalted butter
200g dark chocolate
2 tbsp whiskey
225 g crushed digestive biscuits
55g chopped nuts

Method

Beat eggs and sugar until thick and creamy. Gradually add melted butter and chocolate beating all the time.

Fold in whiskey, biscuits and nuts. Pour into tin and chill to set.

Optional

Decorate with a thin layer of cream and chocolate flake or matchmakers (I didn’t as I thought that the cake itself was rich enough).

Zoë Bowyer » Cakes

Pizza and Cake

Chocolate Whiskey Cake