The method is the same as above – heat the cream, drop in the chocolate, leave it, trust, and whisk like the blazes. Images/text copyright Amanda Formaro 2020. Amazingly amazing. It also contains an unexpected ingredient – condensed milk. It makes for a cake with extra depth I think…now I have 1/2 a can I need to do something with…, Ohhhh those choccy cake piccies look delish! Oct 13, 2013 - Nigella's 'Birthday Cake' w/condensed milk. The recipe makes 48 bite-sized brownies or 18-24 larger brownies. The result was delicious, and the same in terms of taste and texture, but with half the overall sugar. Love the sound, and the look, of this cake. Sift 225g self-raising flour, 30g good cocoa and a pinch of salt into a large bowl and set aside. It was polished off rather quickly. Take everything out of the fridge so that all the ingredients can come to room temperature. Put the kettle on. Thank you {% member.data['first-name'] %}.Your comment has been submitted. Oct 13, 2013 - Nigella's 'Birthday Cake' w/condensed milk. I have been able to adapt it for different sized tins including making it as a traybake. The longest part of the preparation was boiling the water for the coffee – which, incidentally, you don’t really taste…a good thing in my opinion – and cutting out the little paper circle for the bottom of the baking tin. Nigella calls this one her birthday cake because that’s what it’s usually made for. I turned it into a chocolate orange birthday cake by adding orange essence to the icing and using orange buttercream in the middle. Nigella is right, the cake isn't too sweet at all, so the slight raspberry flavour worked really well in the icing. I have to admit though that if it were MY birthday everyone knows that my favourite is carrot cake with creamed cheese icing. https://food.onehowto.com/recipe/how-to-make-condensed-milk-cake-3934.html Into a saucepan place 200g caster sugar, 100g unsalted butter, 200g condensed milk, 100 g good dark chocolate that has been broken into little pieces. She loves to bake, cook, make kid's crafts and create decorative items for her home. Sandwich the middle of the cake with about a quarter of the icing, and then ice the top and sides, too, spreading and smoothing with a rubber spatula. Rub in the butter/margarine. Grease and flour a 22cm round cake tin and set aside. Used as a large cake and muffins, gorgeous! While you might think that it’s way too soft, it will firm up. Thank you {% member.data['first-name'] %}.Your comment has been submitted. Condensed milk! Pop the tins into the oven that you’ve remembered to preheat to 180C and cook for about 25-30 minutes – checking after about 25. Also, this is a cakey-cake, not a moussey or puddingy cake – which I happen to think is a good thing. Indeed, it’s what I made it for – to celebrate Sarah’s 21st birthday – albeit a week after the event given that she didn’t want the fuss of a cake and candles on the day. I want to make a traybake for 40 children for my son's 5th birthday. So I baked the cake for 30 minutes and it was perfect. I’m sold. Just made this cake, so easy and the icing is amazing. Gently add the vanilla and chocolate and mix together until everything is glossy and smooth. If you're looking for the one, the best chocolate cake ever, definitely try this chocolate fudge cake. This is now my go to recipe for heavenly chocolate cake. The most chocolatey chocolate cake! Nigella's Chocolate Cake with Condensed Milk 225g SR flour 30g cocoa 200g caster sugar 100g unsalted butter 200g condensed milk 100g best quality dark chocolate 2 eggs, beaten 100ml boiling water Preheat oven to 180ºC. I've made this cake many times and it's delicious, though if you use the full amount of icing sugar in the icing, you lose the lovely sour cream tang. Choose your cake stand or plate and cut out four strips of baking parchment to form a square outline on it (this stops the icing running on to the plate). You use equal quantities of double cream and chopped chocolate, bring the cream to a near boil, drop the chocolate in, let it stand for a few minutes and then whisk the living daylights out of it. Turns out this was from Nigella Bites. I’m looking at the recipe and printing it out right now (as we speak) I made a lovely one with grated zucchini recently and it was very good but this looks so easy to do. It should be liquid enough to coat easily, but thick enough not to drip off. I actually used a ring cake tin even though I was afraid that it might be a bit small for the amount of cake mixture but it wasn't; it has risen beautifully and had a gorgeous shape. This cake takes a little longer than 5 minutes to put together, but it was still iced and ready for that part of the game when people are landing on Regent Street with a hotel and going straight on to land on Mayfair with a hotel – if you’ve ever played Monopoly you’d know exactly what I’m talking about. When you've done, you may need to add a little boiling water - say a teaspoon or so - or indeed some more confectioners' sugar: it depends on whether you need the icing to be runnier or thicker; or indeed it may be right as it is. I have high hopes for when I get round to icing this one – the way the batter looked in my mixer when I added the egg/sour cream mix made me want to dive in! All Rights Reserved. I topped it with the best chocolate ganache slash sauce you’ll ever make too. In a large bowl, mix together the flour, sugars, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt. For the Cake 7 ounces self-rising flour 8 ounces superfine sugar ¾ teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa 4 ounces margarine (or butter) 2 beaten eggs 5 tablespoons evaporated milk 5 tablespoons water 1 teaspoon vanilla extract I am soooooo loving raspberries right now. It’s such a pity though that packing and unpacking is part of it all. I have recently made this lovely cake. Butternut Squash Pasta with Cheesy Cream Sauce. You know what those Monopoly wars can be like! For US cup measures, use the toggle at the top of the ingredients list. As for the ganache, I used 250g each of cream and chopped chocolate. I increased cocoa for 50g and add full cream yogurt as I didn't have sour cream. Add the dry ingredients all at once and mix together on a slow speed. Nigella's Chocolate Rice Krispie Squares are a chocolate version that makes between 16 and 24 pieces. For the Birthday Cake you may find that the cake is not sweet enough and also that the cake may stale more quickly. Answered on 27th August 2014. HOWEVER, whoever added this recipe to the Food Network website definitely had to have typed the baking time wrong. When you've done, you may need to add a little boiling water - say a teaspoon or so - or indeed some more icing sugar: it depends on whether you need the icing to be runnier or thicker; or indeed it may be right as it is. I hope it will tempt him as his wife says chocolate is his favourite cake. I recently made Nigella’s Old Fashioned Chocolate Cake. Will be my go to choc cake now. The chocolate needs to be chopped quite fine so either smash it with a rolling pin or toss it in a food processor – although the latter option does create washing up. Amazing Recipe. It should be liquid enough to coat easily, but thick enough not to drip off. slightly adapted from Nigella Bites. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Or, easier still, put the confectioners' sugar into the food processor and blitz. Delicious ... Get the Recipe, This creamy crockpot mac and cheese starts with ... Get the Recipe. It can be quite difficult to convert chocolate layer cake recipes to traybakes (sheet pan cakes) as the baking time can vary so much and the cakes for a single layer cake generally need to be thicker than for a sandwich or two layer cake.