recipes@decwrl.UUCP (01/16/87)
Copyright (C) 1986 USENET Community Trust Permission to copy without fee all or part of this material is granted provided that the copies are not made or distributed for direct commercial advantage, the USENET copyright notice and the title of the newsgroup and its date appear, and notice is given that copying is by permission of the USENET Community Trust or the original contributor. .RH MOD.RECIPES-SOURCE CHOC-CAKE-2 D "10 Jun 86" 1986 .RZ "QUICK CHOCOLATE CAKE" "Dangerously delicious chocolate cake" .IH "1 cake" .SH CAKE MIXTURE .IG "1\(34\-2 cups" "self\-raising flour" "175\-200 g" .IG "1\(14 cups" "caster sugar," "250 g" or white sugar chopped in the blender .IG "6 Tbsp" "cocoa," "50 g" (Use more if you like) .IG "\(12 tsp" "bicarbonate of soda" "2 g" .IG "\(14 tsp" "salt" "1 g" .IG "2" "eggs" .IG "1 cup" "milk" "250 ml" .IG "4 oz" "butter or margarine" "120 g" .IG "\(12 Tsp" "vanilla" "2 ml" .SH TOPPING .IG "1 cup" "cream," "300 ml" whipped with a little icing sugar .IG "3 oz" "cooking chocolate" "100 g" .IG "\(12 oz" "copha" "15 g" .IG "" "nuts" .PH .SK 1 Sift the dry ingredients together in a mixing bowl. Soften the butter and add with the milk and vanilla to dry ingredients. .SK 2 Beat for 2 mins with a wooden spoon or until smooth. Add eggs and beat another 2 mins. .SK 3 Pour into .AB "an 8 inch" "a 20 cm" round cake tin (I find the collapsible type best). Cook in a moderate .TE "350\-375" "180" oven for 1 hour. .SK 4 Turn the cooled cake over, slice into two layers and fill with cream. Melt chocolate with copha (do not burn) and pour over cake, dribbling it down the side. Decorate with almonds, pecans or walnuts. .NX Self-raising flour is popular in Britain and Australia, and hard to find in North America. Substitute .AB "2 cups" "200 g" of ordinary all-purpose flour with .AB "\(12 tsp" "2.5 ml" of salt and .AB "3 tsp" "15 ml" of baking powder mixed in. The North American equivalent of caster sugar is ``granulated sugar''. There is no equivalent of copha, but a mixture of butter and coconut is better than nothing. Crisco has the right cooking properties to substitute for copha, but the wrong flavor. .PP You can pour a little Grand Marnier into the cake before spreading the cream in the middle, but it doesn't need it. .SH RATING .I Difficulty: moderate. .I Time: 10 minutes preparation, 1 hour cooking, 1 hour to cool and 5 minutes decorating. 5 minutes to eat. .I Precision: Measure the ingredients, though the cocoa and cream are not critical. .WR Alicia Parmiter Australian Graduate School of Management, Uni of New South Wales alicia@agsm.unsw.oz seismo!munnari!agsm.unsw.oz!alicia