Chocolate Cake

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While the chocolate and butter are cooling a little, sieve the confectioners' sugar into another bowl. Or, easier still, put the confectioners' sugar into the food processor and blitz. This is by far and away the least tedious way of removing lumps.

Add the golden syrup or light corn syrup to the cooled chocolate mixture, followed by the sour cream and vanilla and then when all this is combined whisk in the sieved confectioners' sugar. Or just pour this mixture down the funnel of the food processor on to the confectioners' sugar, with the motor running. Yes, fridges are a dry environment which will draw moisture from a cake making it stale before its time, so do not put sponge cakes in the fridge in an attempt to make them last longer.If the children are in a younger year group, ask them to write down how many onomatopoeias they heard when the poetry was read out to them. This could be a good way to assess the students understanding on key features (it can also be done with other features, like alliteration) In a bid to make self-raising flour more popular among the general public, the company staged a series of exhibitions in the early 1920s where freshly baked scones, pastries and cakes were sold for a shilling to visitors. These were so popular that people demanded to have copies of the recipes so that they could bake the dishes at home. self raising flour.If you’ve had the flour for a while, also add a heaped teaspoon of baking powder. This milk chocolate cake is known in my family as ‘The’ birthday cake, as it’s the one my mother would bake for each and every one of our birthdays. So nostalgia is admittedly a part of the charm of this cake for me, but it also tastes sooooo good!

If your oven is definitely at the correct temperature, which most ovens technically aren’t, and you mix the ingredients in the right way, to the correct quantities, there is no reason that this cake should ever fail. With ‘The Great British Bake Off’, they apparently test all of the contestant’s ovens every day, by baking a Victoria sponge, and theoretically, they should all come out identical if the ovens work. Carefully sandwich the cakes together and use the rest of the icing to cover the top. This mix holds well to the sides, so if you’ve made this as one big cake (my preferred way) then you can cover top and sides of the whole cake if you like (we do!) The chocolate cake mixture is quite thin, so it's important to use sandwich tins rather than springform tins, which could leak. Finish with your choice of sprinkles. Our kids are partial to a bit of everything in the cupboard, for maximum party cake chic.

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Margarine (e.g. Stork)– you’ll get a lighter cake than using butter, and it contains much less fat. But if you prefer, you can substitute butter. Write a short poem on something that the children love. Children should aim to engage the reader by bringing the poetry to life with descriptive language. Use onomatopoeias, alliteration and descriptive adjectives. There isn’t too much more to explain about the cake itself, but be accurate when weighing it out. Also, if your bakes never tend to work properly, no matter the recipe, invest in an oven thermometer as it may save it all. In my rented house that I lived in last year, it was FIFTY degrees out. FIFTY. We ended up having to buy a new oven and swap it whilst we lived there as the landlord didn’t understand the significance of this. The exception to this is when a cake is filled with fresh cream (or anything else that needs to be kept cold) when you should fill it at the last minute to minimise time in the fridge. Also, if it’s a hot day you might need to chill a cake to prevent the icing melting. Spread a little chocolate icing over the top of one of the chocolate cakes, then carefully top with the other cake.