Recipe: Choclate Cake

This is an alteration of a cake by St. Delia. Not for the faint- hearted.

Cake

110g Self Raising Flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

110g soft butter

110g caster sugar

2 eggs

1 teaspoon Vanilla essence

1 tablespoon cocoa powder

50g melted dark chocolate

Chocolate Butter cream

100g melted dark chocolate

100g softened butter

120g icing sugar

80g caster sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla essence

White Chocolate Chunks to decorate

Grease and line 2 18cm tins. Turn on the oven to 180 degrees Celsius.

In a large bowl, mix all of the cake ingredients together until everything is combined. I suggest using an electric whisk.

Divide into 2 and spread equally between each tin. Bake in the oven for 30 minutes. When time, takeout of the oven, remove frostiness and place on a wire rack to cool.

 

 

For the butter cream, use the electric whisk again to combine all ingredients together.

 

 

Spread butter cream equally, first for between the sponges, and then for the topping. Onto both,sprinkle a generous handful of white chocolate chunks.

Tada!

Yummy!

Oh, the knitted-ness is not my work - our local church gave it to us!

I told you it was dangerous....

Do you remember the Victoria and Albert museum website with the pattern generator? And that I said it was Dangerous? Here's why....

One Gorgeous, lovely, beautiful Fred Weasley.

One Victoria and Albert Museum Pattern.

After 10 rows... You can't really tell, can you?

15 rows.... Beginning to see it...

Yes! Definitely there at 20 rows!

Ta Da!!! Isn't he gorgeous!

So, 4 hours, a load of confusion, several scraps of wool and two knitting needles later, I have my lovely Fred Weasley. I was determined. And that is Dangerous.

This is Dangerous....

My primary knitting centres around 1 topic: Harry Potter. I am knitting my scarf, and my quilt.
The scarf I have a pattern for.
The quilt, I do not. I have to gather patterns myself.
So, imagine my amazement when I found that the Victoria and Albert Museum Website can create a pattern (albeit a quilt one) from a photo that you uploaded.
This opens up a world of possibilities.
You could choose to make a quilt with someones face on it by using each square as it's meant to be, with one block colour, or you can choose to formulate it into a stitch guide for one single square.
Very Dangerous.
Especially with me.
And my Quilt.
So guess what I spent two hours doing yesterday?!

Just one out of 32...
I'm going to be having fun with some knitting....
Obviously, the patterns need to be adjusted slightly as  I cannot do half stitches.

As I said.
DANGEROUS!