The birthday cake …
Last year, I baked him a cheesecake. This year it’s a small chocolate cake
An old fashioned chocolate cake actually
The birthday boy - So not going to use thin long candles next time because they wouldn’t stand straight!
The candles wouldn’t blow out because I used magic candles :)
It’s a moist and spongy cake
This cake is SO easy to prepare! Just dump all the ingredients into a food processor and then bake!
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Old Fashioned Chocolate cake
Ingredients (after halving and editing the original)
- 100g plain flour
- 80g caster sugar (original calls for 100g but 80g was sweet enough for my taste)
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
- 20g best-quality cocoa
- 50g unsalted butter + 35g applesauce (original calls for 85g soft unsalted butter)
- 1 large egg
- 1/2 teaspoons real vanilla extract
- 75ml sour cream (I used low fat)
Method
- Take everything out of the fridge so that all the ingredients can come to room temperature.
- Preheat the oven to gas mark 4/180°C and line and butter one 12 cm spring-form pan – you can use two if you want flatter cakes.
- Now all you have to do is put all the cake ingredients – flour, sugar, baking powder and bicarb, cocoa, butter, eggs, vanilla and sour cream – into a food processor and process until you have a smooth, thick batter.
- Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake for about 40 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean.
I made a 12cm cake just for the two of us
I actually love the cracks!
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Enjoy your Sunday! I’m making some super healthy, protein-packed and nutritious soup for tonight :)
April 11th, 2010 at 4:50 pm
i hv actually not thought about using a food processor when it comes to baking mainly coz the batter would be so oily and plastic’s not easy to wash. it’ll always be KitchenAid for me :p your hubby is 30 only, so young!!!
btw i bought TVP & quinoa at ION yesterday, can’t wait to use them!
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April 11th, 2010 at 6:18 pm
@ Evan
Haha I try to find ways to avoid using my electric mixer because it doesn’t have a stand (it has but it’s broken) and it takes quite a bit of time to get a creamy consistency (power is not high).
I was looking for Bob Mill’s quinoa at ION last last time when I bought my TVP but they only had the ground one I think. You bought the ground one or the grain one?
April 11th, 2010 at 7:01 pm
bought the grain one, think its the same as yours. is the powdered one better?
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April 11th, 2010 at 7:58 pm
@ Evan
I’ve never tried the ground one … don’t think it’s cooked the same way as the grain one.
April 11th, 2010 at 10:00 pm
Happy birthday to the husband :)
Mmmm the chocolate cake looks yummy! Why is it called Old fashioned? hahahha
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April 12th, 2010 at 9:49 am
@ Angele
Haha I was wondering too! I couldn’t find an answer from the internet. I think it’s called “old fashioned” because it is how grandma used to bake cakes last time? Simple, easy yet delicious (?)
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