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God Cake (the cake of gods):ingredientz:180g darkest chocolate you find (not cacao)
6 large fresh eggs
125g golden caster sugar
50g muscovado sugar
100g ground almonds
250g unsalted butter
instruktionz:1. pop on the oven at 160'C
2. melt chocolate and butter together (see below)
3. add half of the castor sugar, all the muscovado and all the almonds to the choco-butter mix
4. break eggs into a separate bowl with the rest of the castor sugar and beat until it is 3 times it's original volume (i recommend using a bamix)
5. fold egg mixture into chocolate mixture
6. grease a cake tin and dust with flower so the cake won't stick (see below)
7. pop in the oven for about 25min and coat with chocolate icing (see below)
Milk Chocolate icing:Ingredz:milk chocolate
cream (not whipped)
Instrukz:1. melt chocolate
2. add a splash of cream
3. mix
4. pour over your cake before it sets
5. let it set
Properly melting butter and chocolate:toolz:pot
kettle
stove
teaspoon
glass bowl
instrkz:1. put pot on stove
2. put water in kettle and boil
3. put boiled water in pot
4. turn on stove
5. place glass bowl on pot and wedge between the two, the teaspoon (this will direct the steam)
6. place things that need melted in bowl
Greasing a cake tin:Need:cake tin
butter wrapper
flour
how:1. butter the inside of cake tin with butter wrapper (the wrapper should still have some butter on it)
2. make sure the inside of the tin is completely buttered
3. drop a heaped spoon of flour into the cake tin
4. shake the tin and ensure that all the areas that were buttered get covered in flour
5. if flour wont stick to a section of the tin, wash tin, dry tin and start again
6. if the inside of the tin is completely covered in a thin layer of flour, you can pat yourself on the back
Why?:it's a lot easier than using paper which makes the side of the cake look wrinkly
Aren't you being a bit bigoted?:Nope