Post by: spamjam on April 12, 2005, 09:26:47 pm
I'm a bit of a baking novice and made the chocolate orange cake, it was divine but my sponge was a bit dry, any tips? cocoa powder or real chocolate?
Post by: goldencup on April 12, 2005, 11:39:22 pm
Post by: loulou on April 13, 2005, 09:04:09 am
Post by: smurfboy on April 13, 2005, 10:30:27 am
Post by: goldencup on April 13, 2005, 01:05:28 pm
I always buy one from Sainsbury's.
So do I. I can't remember the last time I actually made one.
Post by: smurfboy on April 13, 2005, 01:31:41 pm
I made a disastrous one a few years back. The recipe said it would take an hour to cook - after an hour it was still liquid! I blame the recipe... 
I was going through a stage of constant baking at the time; I had left my job and was having trouble getting a new one, and had also been dumped 
, so for some reason I tried to bake my troubles away!
Post by: goldencup on April 13, 2005, 02:18:52 pm
Never mind, there are far worse ways of trying to cheer yourself up!
I've now remembered the last cake I made - it was for my husband's birthday about ten years ago and it turned out about one centimeter thick - I think the flour was out of date or something!
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on April 13, 2005, 02:26:51 pm
I use drinking chocolate not cocoa for a moist chocolate sponge.
I got the recipe originally from a Nigella Lawson article in the You Magazine. I expect it's in "How to be a Domestic Goddess" or maybe even on-line.
Post by: lorri on August 27, 2005, 06:56:23 pm
lol) it just did not have the same rich taste without it 
Post by: loulou on August 28, 2005, 08:27:02 pm
Post by: lorri on August 29, 2005, 09:37:12 am
just offer the nice policeman a slice of cake to eat while u talk about it lol
Post by: loulou on August 29, 2005, 11:09:52 pm
Post by: lorri on August 30, 2005, 08:03:24 pm
Post by: loulou on August 30, 2005, 08:05:38 pm
Post by: lorri on August 31, 2005, 05:08:07 pm
for lou lou
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chocolate and red wine cake
7oz softened butter
9oz caster sugar
4 beaten eggs
1oz coca powder
9 0z plain flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon cinamon
100ml red wine
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
5oz plain choc chips
heat oven to 180
cream butter and sugar together
beat in eggs
sift in coca,flour,baking powder and cinamon
stir in red wine and vanilla extract
fold in choc chips
pour into 8" tin and bake for 1 hour or untill done
most importantly ENJOY lol
Post by: loulou on August 31, 2005, 07:02:15 pm
Post by: lorri on August 31, 2005, 07:17:12 pm