2009-10-18 - LFGSS Cake & Bake Off

no, Tea for Two I'm afraid, but I may bring left overs to Souths on Monday!

Pickle - this morning I made your guinness choc cake..... gorgeous! Ta for the recipe. I have so much of the glorious stuff to demolish!

frickin awesome! now you've made me want cake!

goes to pre-heat the oven

Pickle - you've made me a very very popular person... I did a guinness cake drop to mates in brixton (x5) as I was so proud of what I pulled out of the oven on saturday. One mate did me a marriage proposal, one of them said the best choc cake shes EVER eaten (and she pointed out that she has eaten a lot of cake in her life), and the rest all sang my praise. I feel like a cake goddess... Thanks again, its some proper little magic is that!

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@Kattiep, thats brilliant share the chocolate love goodness!

So, planning must start now for a christmas edition. Can we book another date with Steve?

OH. MY. GOD.

How have I never heard of something like this before?!? It combines all my favorite things (except bikes).
It's a contest to re-create your favorite book in cake...and they have a pun section.
Old man and the brie, anyone?

http://frybooks.blogspot.com/

Oooooh, well, that should be our next Cake & Bake-off, then!

I'll be all over the Most Pun-derful category. :)

I've never even baked a cake, so decorating it in the style of my favourite book will be a challenge, but perhaps a strategic pun can make it easier ...

I can still smell the butter iscing the filled the room in the C&H

Hippy, its the weather for eating pie AND crumble. Any chance of there being another bake off soon?????

I like this idea. im going to make my lemon tart and im going to win

Hippy was judging ... The rulez stated that apple, and apple only, was the permitted fruit ...

If you can talk Hippy into it, I'm sure we can arrange another!

YES! I make an awesome mixed berry crumble these days, plus I want to defend my reigning title in the controversial cheesecakes catergory.

Edit ... just realised this wasn't the 'Hippy judging the Apple Crumble and Apple Pie Bake Off'

#anotherthread

Calling Hippy! (we have enthusasium)

Ginger nuts ...

Although no-one *specifically *asked for the recipe here is the awesome recipe for the vegan chocolate cake. Thanks Oliver - I would never have thought that the cake (and the icing) was going to be so fantastic. The secret is the vinegar/bicarb reaction.

Chocolate Cake

225g/8oz caster sugar
4 dssps cocoa powder
1 tsp salt
225g/9oz plain white flour
85g/3oz plain wholemeal flour
1.5 tsp bicarbonate of soda
170ml/6fl oz vegetable oil
2 tsp vanilla essence 4 tsp vinegar
350ml/2/3 pint cold water

Choc icing:
55g/2oz margarine 4tbsp soya milk 140g/5oz sugar
30g/1oz cocoa powder, sieved
1 tsp vanilla essence

Decoration:
50g/2oz plain chocolate

1. Mix thoroughly the sugar, cocoa, salt, flour and bicarbonate of soda in
   a mixing bowl.
   
2. Add the oil, vanilla essence and vinegar and pour cold water over the mixture. Beat well with fork.
   
3. Pour into two greased sandwich tins. Cook at 180°C/350°F/Gas Mark 4 for 30 minutes or until the cake springs back lightly when pressed.
   
4. Cool thoroughly.
   
5. Make the icing: combine the first four ingredients in a saucepan and bring them to the boil slowly, stirring constantly.
   
6. Boil for 1 minute.
   
7. Remove from heat and beat until cold (you can do this in a bowl of cold water, but let it cool a bit first or the icing sticks to the bottom of the pan). Mix in the vanilla essence.
   
8. Sandwich the cakes together with a thin spread of hazelnut carobella and/or your favourite jam/fruit spread.
   
9. Put chocolate icing on the top, then flakes of chocolate (just cut the chocolate really finely with a sharp knife and/or grate the chocolate).
   Just took this out of the oven - looks and smells amazing!
   

You sharing?

SE drinks tonight!

Is it time for another cake off?