Chocoholics Celebrate: Easter

CHOCOLATEY EASTER

I can’t stop baking. This weekend it has to be a chocolate cake as it is Easter. Easter is the holiday that has somehow become synonymous with chocolate over consumption. If you are a chocoholic try out this recipe to satisfy your chocolate cravings and use really good quality chocolate with a high % of cocoa which is loaded with antioxidants.

This is from a recipe I found on line from Easy Living Magazine – It is simple and dead easy to make. It doesn’t get more chocolate-tastic than this...

Chocolate cake:

Ingredients:

175g Unsalted Butter
175g Caster Sugar
175g Self Raising Flour
3 Whole Eggs
50g of good quality Cocoa Powder
A pinch of Salt
A drop or two of Vanilla Extract
1 teaspoon of Baking Powder

100g of Dark Chocolate [50% Cocoa]
100g of Unsalted Butter

Equipment:

Food processor
Round tin greased with butter and lined with baking paper
Pre-heated oven

1. Take butter out of fridge and collect all your ingredients and measure out each bit

2. Preheated oven to 180 degrees C [160 if on fan assisted]

3. Smear the tin with a bit of butter and line the bottom with cut out baking paper

4. Place all the ingredients for the cake in the processor and mix

5. Scrape the mixture into the tin and bake for 45min – rest for 15min and then turn out [I've kept mine in the tin for presentation and because it has a nice lid that fits!]

 

 

6. Place the butter and the chocolate into a suitable bowl and place over the simmering water

7. Allow this to gently melt down - do not stir too often. Take off the heat and cool for 5 min

8. Pour the melted chocolate over the cake and decorate with chocolate eggs [chill the cake for 30min or else the eggs may melt!]

 

 

 

This is serious chocolate overdose! Don't forget to share...and the diet can resume next week!!