The garden is full of primroses and my old recipe books have plenty of recipes which use them, but I decided to pick just a few for decoration.
Chocolate cake is always popular with my family and this one got a big thumbs up from them. It doesn't come with a list of ingredients a mile long. Nor does it take any great effort.
I found it in one of my old recipe books:
8 oz flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
2 oz dark chocolate
8 fl oz milk
5 oz butter
10 oz soft brown sugar - (I didn't have enough, so 4 or 5 oz was dark molasses sugar)
3 eggs
1 tbsp black treacle
1 tsp vanilla extract
Sift the flour, baking powder and salt together.
Put the milk and chocolate into a pan and warm them gently, stir when melted and then set aside to cool.
Cream the butter and sugar, adding the beaten eggs a little at a time. Add flour and eggs alternately.
Mix well and then add the cooled chocolate and milk mixture.
Pour the batter into tins and bake at 180 degrees - 25-30 minutes, approximately.
I used two 8" tins, but you could use smaller ones and make three cakes.
No doubt there will be more to come.
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The primrose looks nice against that yummy chocolate. Your family eat well!
ReplyDeleteHello Linda, My family eat far too well.
ReplyDeleteI have made a decision to continue baking these experimental cakes, but in miniature! Max has expressed concern about his expanding waistline but doesn't want to give up his cake, so just making a four inch one should help... it will also give my brain a good workout as I do the calculations to reduce the quantities of ingredients!
This is my kind of cake...few ingredients. I need look no further than my pantry and fridge, for all the ingredients. I think I will give it a try Friday afternoon. And maybe, I will try to cut the recipe in half.
ReplyDeleteElaine, this looks absolutely delectable!!! And I love the photos. Thank you so much for sharing.
ReplyDeleteHello Meggie, The family liked the darker notes which the black treacle and molasses sugar introduced - but, truth to tell, they are always happy to sample chocolate cake!
ReplyDeleteHello Linda, Thank you. It was gone in a trice so I think we can call that a success!
When I was small, my mother used to make Chocolate Cakes that looked exactly like that. They were wonderful.
ReplyDeleteHello Cro, I have hopes that my grandchildren will have happy memories of the cakes I bake for them! I made them toad-in-the-hole for their tea last night, just as well we don't have a pool!
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