Thursday 21 November 2013

Chocoholics Anonymous

Eat The Alpujarras has been informed that we have been short-listed for the award of the prestigious Three Orgasms status by the recently constituted UNBGC (United Nations Baked Goods Council). The basis of our application was our submission of this recipe for a moist, and entirely calorie-free recipe, one that I've been making for a year or so. Lots of people have been asking me to print out the instructions. Have you seen the price of printer ink these days? So, here it is. Print it yourself!

(Note to web regulators: some of the details in the above may not be entirely factually correct.)


Here's one I made earlier... Doh!
Ingredients:
  • 225g (1 cup) plain flour
  • 350g (1.5 cups) white sugar
  • 85g  (6 tablespoons) 100% cocoa powder
  • 2 big eggs (What's that in cups?)
  • 250ml (1 cup) milk
  • 125ml (1/2 cup) sunflower or groundnut oil
  • 1.5 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1.5 tsp bicarbonate of soda
  • 1 tsp vanilla essence
  • 1 tsp rose water
  • 250ml (1 cup) boiling water

Method:

  1. Combine all the ingredients, except for the boiling water.  Whisk until smooth.
  2. Add the boiling water gradually, in about 4-5 stages.  Make sure the water is well combined before adding the next glug.
  3. Grease and base-line a 26cm (10"?) spring-form cake tin with greaseproof paper.
  4. Place the cake tin on a metal baking sheet and pour in the mix.  It will be VERY liquidy.
  5. Bake in the oven for 1 hour ay 170C/155C fan/330F/Gas 3.  Check that after the hour the top has stopped quivering like a jelly.  If it does, give it another 10 minutes.
  6. Remove from the oven and leave it on a cooling rack.  The top of the cake will sink; it’s meant to do that.  It should end up flat. Slip a knife around the edge to remove.
  7. You can serve it as is, or you could melt 100g of dark chocolate and then whisk in 100ml of thick cream and frost the cake with that, for an extra choccy hit.
  8. Serve with ice cream and a couple of spoonfuls of red fruit compote.
This cake may be consumed twice-daily as a part of any obese person's weight-maintenance diet.

2 comments:

  1. I think I've had this at your house and it was yummy. What is ground nut oil? Jenny x

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  2. You won't find groundnut oil here, but you will in the UK/US etc. It's peanut oil.

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