Comments on: If you’ve got cake, girl, you’ve got friends

By: lindsey clare

lindsey clare — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 02:36:10 +0000

hey claire, just wanted to tell you that i made your mum’s chocolate cake on friday night for a couple of friends who came around for dinner and wine and Olympics-watching.

the all round consensus was that it is a very decent cake, especially considering the ease of effort and simplicity of ingredients. HOWEVER i would raise the point that to me it was no way near chocolate-y enough and next time i will be doubling the cocoa and perhaps adding chocolate bits in too.

By: Anna

Anna — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 03:06:43 +0000

I’m planning to give your cake a go, & in return i’m offering up my mum’s (& now mine too) all occasions chocolate cake. I think it came from the women’s weekly, circa mid-eighties, and has made frequent appearances ever since. It’s not as quick and easy as your mum’s but yummy and not too rich so good for little ones. I like it with cream & strawberries in the middle but sometimes I make it as cupcakes…mmmm cake!!

1/2 cup cocoa
1/2 cup water
185g butter
1 1/2 cups caster sugar
3 eggs
2 cups SR flour
1/4 tsp bi-carb soda
3/4 cup milk
1 tbsp vanilla
Stir together cocoa & water. Cream butter & sugar. Add eggs one at a time. Sift flour & bi-carb and add in two batches, alternating with milk & vanilla. Fold in cocoa mixture. Pour into a lined 22cm round tim and bake 30-35 mins at 180 degrees, or until it tests clean with a skewer. (you can check your oven temp with one of those little oven thermometers from the supermarket!)

Sorry for the super long comment. Thanks for the recipe – i’m off to do some baking!

By: Marcia

Marcia — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 09:05:17 +0000

I made it! It’s indeed a crowd pleaser cake, very tasty, very moist and fluffy. In my gas oven it took 35 minutes to cook. Thank you Claire and Claire’s Mum for the recipe.

By: alice

alice — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 08:36:07 +0000

Thank you for sharing the recipe, I will definitely give it a go!

By: Janet

Janet — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 05:40:41 +0000

I have an easy chocolate cake recipe that sounds pretty similar, except that it uses brown sugar and softened rather than melted butter. And it’s as easy as making a packet cake.

The recipe is here..
http://muppinstuff.typepad.com/eater/2007/05/easy_chocolate_.html

By: Helen

Helen — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:37:40 +0000

your cake saga has been making be laugh for days! thanks for sharing (the recipe and the funny stories)

By: Cindy

Cindy — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 06:48:52 +0000

I am going to give this recipe a go on the miserable cold week-end coming up. I love the photographic history of the chocolate cake. So sweet.

By: supersue

supersue — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 02:55:07 +0000

Thanks for the recipe! I had read about your revelation the other day and was secretly hoping you would share the secret recipe. Can’t wait to try it1 Here is my favorite chocolate cake recipe, it’s the one from the back of the Hershey’s cocoa box. If you can get your hands on dark chocolate cocoa – you’ll die of pleasure when eating it…

http://www.hersheys.com/recipes/recipes/detail.asp?id=184&page=1&per=10&keyword=chocolate%20cake

By: Nicky

Nicky — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 02:32:09 +0000

Thanks for sharing the cake recipe, definitely going to give it a try.

@Jo, LOL at the Gravy Cake. Please tell me you tried it? I wouldn’t have been able to resist!

By: Melanie

Melanie — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 01:11:44 +0000

My mother’s secret chocolate cake was a similar recipe, however her’s called for the dry ingredients to be sifted together and placed in the bowl first, then add the wet ingredients (including the melted butter) and beat. As easy as a cake mix but way nicer.