Nigella comes to the party! - by ange

OK so here it is.. Jeff's b'day cake.. It's nigella's recipe - she calls it 'old fashioned chocolate cake'

For the cake you need :

200g each of p.flour and caster sugar

1tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp bicarb.soda

40g best quality cocoa

175g soft unsalt. butter

2 tsp vanilla extract

150ml sour cream.

put all those ingredients in food processor, process till smooth. Divide batter among 2 20cm cake tins. place in oven at 180 C, check at 25mins but should need about 35mins. Cool 10 mins in their tins then turn out - some cracks are normal..

For the icing (and this is what makes it spectacular!!)

75g unsalt. butter

175g dark choc broken in small bits

300g icing sugar

1T golden syrup

125ml sour cream

1 tsp vanilla extract

sugar flowers to decorate (or whatever you want).

melt butter and chocolate. Add golden syrup to cooled choc mixture, followed by sour cream, vanilla. Add all this to the food processor where you have just whizzed the icing sugar, whizz altogether there you have it!

I put one cake piece on a plate, added some of the icing then added lots of raspberries, little more icing, added other cake on top, then smothered in icing... DIVINE! I coated cherries with remainng icing..YUM! It's a wonder what a fluffy flower will cover, my cake collapsed in one section!

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