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Chocolate birthday cake with rich chocolate ganache
45Total Time
15Prep Time
30Bake Time
8Serves
Easy

Chocolate Birthday Cake

6 Reviews

About our chocolate birthday cake recipe:

If you are looking to elevate your everyday chocolate cake recipe, this indulgent chocolate birthday cake is the recipe for you.

Billington's Unrefined Light Muscovado Sugar gives this birthday cake a rich, decadent flavour that will really give it the wow factor. Soft moist sponge and creamy buttercream is topped with a silky smooth ganache for the last word in celebration cakes. 

45Total Time
15Prep Time
30Bake Time
8Serves
Easy

Method

  1. Step 1:

    Preheat the oven to 180°C (170°C fan, gas mark 4). Put some water in a cake tin or roasting tin and put in the base of the oven. Line 2 x 20cm sandwich tins with baking parchment.

  2. Step 2:

    In a small pan set over a very low heat melt together the chocolate and butter with 100ml water. The mixture will be smooth and glossy.

  3. Step 3:

    Sift together the flour, sugar, cocoa powder and baking powder. Mix in the eggs until well blended. Stir in the chocolate and butter. Spoon into the prepared tins and smooth the top.

  4. Step 4:

    Bake for 30 minutes, until a skewer comes out clean when inserted. Remove from the tin and set aside on a wire rack to cool.

  5. Step 5:

    Meanwhile, make the buttercream by beating together the icing sugar, cocoa powder, butter and milk. Fill the two sponges, sandwiching them together and use the remaining buttercream to cover the sides and top of the cake.

  6. Step 6:

    To make the ganache, heat the dark chocolate and cream together over a low heat until it becomes smooth and glossy. Carefully pour on to the top of the cake and with a pallet knife smooth to cover the top and coax some drips down the side of the cake.

  7. Step 7:

    Finish by decorating with Malteasers and a cake topper.

Ingredients

  • For the Cake

    • 175g Dark chocolate (broken)
    • 200g Butter (unsalted)
    • 200g Allinson's Self Raising Flour
    • 300g Billington's Unrefined Light Muscovado Sugar
    • 30g Cocoa powder
    • 1 tsp Baking powder
    • 4 Egg(s) (free range) (beaten)
  • For the Buttercream

    • 250g Silver Spoon Icing Sugar
    • 30g Cocoa powder
    • 80g Butter (unsalted, softened)
    • 25ml Milk (whole)
  • For the Chocolate Ganache

    • 200g Dark chocolate
    • 200g Double cream
    • 200g Malteasers

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