Chocolate layer cake

[betweensunandmoon]

My grandmother and I baked a three-layer chocolate cake today—my first time ever making a cake and frosting from scratch.



It didn't turn out too even, but it was delicious.

Comments

[igenlode]

That's impressively large -- and luxurious! My experiments tend more to the bargain-basement end of affairs, because it's just too daunting to put a lot of valuable ingredients into something that might not come out right...

(I did, very unusually, ice a cake all over recently; I'm trying to remember what it was. I have a feeling it was the coffee-nut cake, but I can't imagine what I can have iced it *with*, given that I'm almost out of icing sugar. I don't seem to have mentioned it in my blog, but I have dim memories that it may somehow have been 'iced' with a sort of set cornflour custard mixture...!)

[igenlode]

Found it: 27th September.


I was experimenting with wartime 'cake filling' (which is basically cooked white sauce slightly stiffened and enriched with dried egg and a tablespoon of sugar, and in this case flavoured with instant coffee!)

[betweensunandmoon]

Ooh, that looks nice. Are those pecans on top? What's white sauce?

Here's the recipe we used: https://thestayathomechef.com/the-most-amazing-chocolate-cake/

It wasn't terribly complicated. There was just a lot of everything.

[igenlode]

Yes, whole pecans. White sauce is just milk thickened with flour -- flour and water paste made with milk and a little fat instead of plain water :-D
https://www.goodto.com/recipes/white-sauce-recipe

It wasn't terribly complicated. There was just a lot of everything.

Three nine-inch tiers is certainly a lot of cake!