Chocolate Cake

Well Wednesday has arrived and I am baking again.
Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Filling and Chocolate Icing. A lovely recipe from Nigella

First weight out all the dry ingredients and add to a large bowl.



Add the soft butter to the dry ingredients, whisk until nice and creamy.

Add the cocoa, sour cream, vanilla extract and eggs and beat until all have been well combined and are nice and fluffy. I find I always need to use my spatula to get all the bits that are stuck to the side of the bowl.
Once you are happy pour into your prepared baking tins, again if you use a spatula this helps to get all the mixture out of the bowl into the tins. Whatever you do don't tap the tins, as this knocks all the air out and your cakes won't rise.

        Fluffly, creamy chocolate mixture added to prepared tins (greased and
                                              lined) ready for baking

I am quite happy with these are they look yummy? Well they certainly taste it!! It is after this point that you can lick the bowl and spoon, if your children haven't got their first!!

Bake in the oven for a good 35 mins, check with a skewer after 25 mins to see if the cake is cooked or needs longer.  If the skewer comes out wet, bake for a further 5 - 10 mins.

Once baked, leave the cakes in their tins to cool for approx 10 mins before transferring from their tins onto a cooling rack.

                                       Baked Cakes straight from the oven.

Well don't worry if the cake cracks on the top, as this will be covered by the icing when you come to decorate the cake.

Well that's me for tonight. The cakes are made and are cooling nicely on my wire rack.

Tomorrow I will make the chocolate icing, put the cake together, add the filling and decorate it with icing.