Have you ever heard a cake called something more enticing? Cakes & clouds, oh yeah… I’m in. Sold.
Cake week {the week when everyone in my family seemed to be born at once} finished for us a week and a bit ago. To be honest, I was so caked out that I just sliced them up, put them on a platter and took them to playgroup and begged people to take them out of my house. No more cake!
Now I’m ready to talk about cake again. I’ve recovered. Thank you for your concern. I think I’m going to be okay {FYI: it wasn’t so much the eating of the cake, but the making of it and the way it teased me from the fridge every time I opened it}.
Back to Chocolate Cloud Cake. It’s the perfect amount of chocolately goodness, and squidgy-ness. I think you’ll like it {if you like good chocolate cake that is}. And it’s a Nigella Lawson recipe, so of course it’s good.
Chocolate Cloud Cake
Ingredients
Cake
250g dark chocolate
125g butter,softened
6 large eggs {2 whole, 4 separated}
3/4 cup caster sugar
Cream topping
500ml thickened cream, whipped
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
Method
♥ Preheat your oven to 180 degrees celcius. Line the base of a 23cm springform tin.
♥ Melt the chocolate in a bowl over a saucepan of swimmering water. Toss in the butter and let it melt. Once melted, remove from heat.
♥ Beat the two whole eggs, and 4 egg yolks with 1/4 cup of the sugar. Gently add the chocolate mixture and mix to combine.
♥ In a clean bowl, beat the egg whites with the last 1/2 cup of sugar until soft peaks form. Fold into the chocolate mixture.
♥ Pour into the tin and place in the oven and cook for 35-40 minutes, until it is cooked.
♥ The cake will sink a little in the middle, but you can hide all your sins with the cream topping. Once cool, put the cream on top and dust with cocoa if you please.
Tell me about the best cake you’ve ever made/eaten. I’d love to try it and share it on my blog. So, do tell!
I am going to find you a link to one I blogged that my exMIL taught me – it doesn’t require an oven AT ALL. The bad news is you will require a lot of friends to get through its rich goodness. The good news is that they will FLOCK to you for a sliver of it.
http://jeanieinparadise.blogspot.com.au/2008/08/let-them-eat-cake.html
This is one of the yummiest cakes i’ve ever made. You really need a cuppa with it. http://lifessimplemeasures.blogspot.com.au/2012/04/gooey-cinnamon-carrot-cake.html
Passionfruit cream cake, it’s just an ordinary vanilla cake with A couple of passionfruits added to the mix when cooked and cooled fill the centre with whipped cream mixed with more passionfruit and a little icing mix then for the icing make passionfruit vienna cream and then sprinkle flaked almonds all over, SO FREAKIN DELICIOUS!
http://www.mrsbishopsbakesandbanter.co.uk/2014/03/banoffee-peanut-butter-cake-recipe.html?m=1 my banoffee peanut butter cake is to die for xxx
http://www.jamieoliver.com/news-and-blogs/blogs/purely-fruit-sweetened-brownies/
I think my best ever is the Mixed Berry Yoghurt Cake – it’s as pretty as a picture and uber yummy. The yoghurt makes it deliciously moist and the berries add a lovely splash of colour. It’s hard not to love a cake with pink bits. http://www.theannoyedthyroid.com/2012/06/26/mixed-berry-yoghurt-cake/
OMG so yummy!!
http://www.just-like-me.de
I’m uploading and sharing two! We are party planners and I’m a custom cake designer so here’s the best of both worlds! You can tell that I’m a Disney Girl!
I’ve only got one word for this one … YUM!
This looks so yummy, I might try and give it a go over the weekend. It’s too hard to pick just one favourite cake!! Although not a ‘cake’, my Tim Tam and Chocolate Chunk Muffins are high on my favourites list.. Who can go past chocolate cake with Tim Tam pieces in it??
http://createbakemake.com/2014/02/11/tim-tam-and-chocolate-chunk-muffins/
Yummo! I have been making a delish raspberry cloud cake for years – I alternate it with the pavlova! Mine involves the freezer though – no ovening required! Such a spectacular dessert and oh so easy! Will do chocolate cloud cake next. Oh so dreamy!
Mmmmm, good idea to try next weekend. We have a lot of visitors and this cake might be a good solution to give them some sweet time!!!
http://goodtaste2800.blogspot.be/
I have a similar recipe called a flourless torte, it has cinnamon in it, devine!
That looks amazing! Next time I have access to a kitchen I’ll need to try and whip this bad boy up, ha
I just made a cake by Sophie at Local is Lovely I found on Kidspot. It originally was made with peach puree, but I’ve made it with pear puree for a bake sale and with pureed apple for home. My four year old loved it, very strange for her to eat an apple cake! Very nice with a dollop of cream 🙂
Oh yum!! This will be perfect for passover (no flour). Yum!