I actually got this recipe out of the Daily Mail when the whole "Britain's Best Baker" thing was going on. I have tweaked it a little though because it seemed more complicated than it needed to be!
You will need:
20g (1oz) cocoa powder
100g (40z) butter
100g (4oz) self raising flour
150g (50z) caster sugar
2 Medium eggs
1) Cream the butter & sugar
2) Beat in the eggs
3) Add the cocoa powder & stir well
4) Add in the flour & stir well again
4) Pour the mixture in to cases and put in a preheated oven at 170 / Gas 4 for 20-25 minutes!
This made 7 cakes for me!
For the frosting I made chocolate ganache! I've never made this type of frosting before but it was so simple & it's soooo rich & chocolatey!
To make the ganache you will need:
50ml (2fl oz) double cream7
60g (2.5 oz) milk chocolate
1) Break the chocolate up into very small pieces
2) Pour the cream into a small pan & heat until boiling
3) Once the cream is boiling add the chocolate & stir well until the mixture is smooth & shiny.
4) Take off the heat & leave to cool
5) Spread or pipe the ganache onto the cakes!
I haven't baked in AGES and I had a lot of time on my hands today so I thought why not do some baking?! By special request I made these white chocolate cup cakes! I improvised on the recipe and got rather worried they wouldn't turn out but they came out perrrrfect I am very pleased!
To make them you will need:
125g (4oz) butter
125g (4oz) caster sugar
125g (4oz) self raising flour
2 medium eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
100g (3oz) white chocolate
I made 10 using these measurements (though I did eat some of the mixture ha!)
1) Preheat the oven to 170 / Gas mark 4
2) Cream together the butter & sugar
3) Beat in the eggs
4) Melt the chocolate in the microwave on a medium heat for about a minute and then add it to the mixture
5) Stir in the flour and add the vanilla extract
6) Pour the mixture into cake cases and bake for 20-25 mins!
To make the frosting you will need:
125g (4oz) butter
250g (8oz) icing sugar
150g (5oz) white chocolate
1 tbsp of double cream
1) Beat the butter & icing sugar
2) Melt the chocolate in the same way as earlier & add it to the butter & sugar
3) Stir it realllyyy well!
4) Add the tbsp of cream & beat the mixture (I used an electric whisk as it was a bit grainy and this seemed to solve the problem!)
5) Pipe or spread onto the cooled cakes!
This frosting is absolutely delish! BUT! It is very sickly..so try not to eat too much like I did!!
