Mini Heart-Shaped Chocolate Cake ...
Preparation Time 20 minutes
Baking Time 30 minutes
Portions 4
Ingredients:
Method:
For the cake:
Recipe and photo credits- Baking Mad
Portions 4
Ingredients:
- 125 grams Chocolate, good quality dark
- 3 tbsp Milk
- 150 grams Butter softened
- 150 grams Billington's Golden Caster Sugar
- 3 Eggs
- 200 grams Allinson Nature Friendly Plain White Flour
- 1 tbsp Cocoa Powder
- 1 tsp Baking Powder
- 0.25 tsp Bicarbonate Of Soda
- 100 grams Silver Spoon Create White Chocolate Flavour Cake Covering
- 140 grams Butter
- 140 grams Billington’s Golden Icing Sugar
- Food clourings and sweets to fininsh
Method:
- Preheat the oven to 180°C, Fan oven 160°C /gas 4.
- Butter and flour the sides of four 10 cm heart shaped tins and line the bases with greaseproof paper.
For the cake:
- Snap the chocolate into chunks and place in a bowl.
- Add the milk and sit the bowl over a saucepan of gently simmering water and heat until the chocolate has melted.
- (Make sure the bottom of the bowl doesn’t touch the surface of the water.)
- Set aside to cool slightly.
- Beat the butter until very soft then add the caster sugar and continue to beat until the mixture is pale and fluffy.
- Beat in the eggs, one at a time, and then fold in the melted chocolate.
- Sift in the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and the bicarbonate of soda, and fold in gently to mix.
- Divide the mixture between the tins and bake in the oven for 25 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the middle of each cake comes out clean.
- Remove the cakes from the oven and allow to sit for five minutes before turning them out of their tins and placing them on a wire rack to cool.
- When cool slice the cake in half.
- For the chocolate butter icing Melt the chocolate in the microwave on High for 1½ minute, stirring halfway.
- Leave to cool.
- Beat the butter and icing sugar in a large bowl until creamy.
- Beat in the chocolate until smooth.
- Spread the butter icing on the bottom half of the cake and sandwich with the other half.
- Make some coloured icing Sugar and decorate with sweets.
Recipe and photo credits- Baking Mad
