Ultimate Chocolate Cake - recipe request
It was my birthday last week and I made two cakes. One was a glorious success - peach and white chocolate cake - see recipe below. The other was...not. It was just OK. I had wanted a rich, sticky, ultimate chocolate cake and I used a recipe that started with 'separate 12 eggs' and went on from that. It was a fiddle, and it was not worth it, at all.
So, I am asking if anyone has got a truly 'ultimate' chocolate cake recipe. I am looking for one with the depth of flavour of a chocolate brownie, kind of sticky, rich etc etc; and of a size that could be frosted for a birthday (i.e. not a torte, or brownies, or a mousse etc) Any offers?
As for the successful cake...
250g pack butter , softened
200g caster sugar
300g plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
2 tsp vanilla extract
3 large eggs
200g full-fat Greek yogurt
200g bar white chocolate , 50g grated, remainder broken into chunks
2 peaches , stoned and diced into 1cm or smaller chunks
FOR THE ICING
white chocolate chunks (see above)
200g tub full-fat soft cheese
200g Greek yogurt
3 tbsp finely chopped pistachios (I left them off, as there were kids around)
1.Heat oven to 160C/140C fan/gas 3. Butter and line the base and sides of a deep 22cm cake tin with baking parchment, then beat the rest of the butter and the sugar together until pale. Add the flour, baking powder, vanilla, eggs, yogurt and grated chocolate. Beat together, then stir in the peaches.
2. Scrape into the tin and bake for 1 hr, until an inserted skewer comes out clean. Cool in the tin.
3. To make the icing, melt the chocolate chunks in a bowl over a pan of barely simmering water, then remove from the heat. Beat the soft cheese in a mixing bowl until smooth, then beat in the yogurt until smooth. Scrape in the melted chocolate and beat again. Chill until ready to use.
4. Swirl the icing over the top of the cake and scatter over the pistachios.
Basically it was a sticky dense cake covered in cheesecake!
So, I am asking if anyone has got a truly 'ultimate' chocolate cake recipe. I am looking for one with the depth of flavour of a chocolate brownie, kind of sticky, rich etc etc; and of a size that could be frosted for a birthday (i.e. not a torte, or brownies, or a mousse etc) Any offers?
As for the successful cake...
250g pack butter , softened
200g caster sugar
300g plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
2 tsp vanilla extract
3 large eggs
200g full-fat Greek yogurt
200g bar white chocolate , 50g grated, remainder broken into chunks
2 peaches , stoned and diced into 1cm or smaller chunks
FOR THE ICING
white chocolate chunks (see above)
200g tub full-fat soft cheese
200g Greek yogurt
3 tbsp finely chopped pistachios (I left them off, as there were kids around)
1.Heat oven to 160C/140C fan/gas 3. Butter and line the base and sides of a deep 22cm cake tin with baking parchment, then beat the rest of the butter and the sugar together until pale. Add the flour, baking powder, vanilla, eggs, yogurt and grated chocolate. Beat together, then stir in the peaches.
2. Scrape into the tin and bake for 1 hr, until an inserted skewer comes out clean. Cool in the tin.
3. To make the icing, melt the chocolate chunks in a bowl over a pan of barely simmering water, then remove from the heat. Beat the soft cheese in a mixing bowl until smooth, then beat in the yogurt until smooth. Scrape in the melted chocolate and beat again. Chill until ready to use.
4. Swirl the icing over the top of the cake and scatter over the pistachios.
Basically it was a sticky dense cake covered in cheesecake!