Get in your belly: Chocolate Cloud Cake

Get in your belly: Chocolate Cloud Cake

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!

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16 thoughts on “Get in your belly: Chocolate Cloud Cake”

  1. 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!

  2. 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!

  3. 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!

  4. That looks amazing! Next time I have access to a kitchen I’ll need to try and whip this bad boy up, ha

  5. 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 🙂

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