This recipe is quite an extended recipe. It has quite a few components that are combined in a specific way.
First of all cocoa powder, bicarbonate of soda and boiling water are combined forming a chocolaty liquid and left to cool. A bar of 70% Chocolate is melted and left to cool too.
Meanwhile the butter is creamed and sugar added gradually along with eggs and vanilla (I use the one from waitrose thats in a small pot and is like a thick paste with the seeds in too). The Flour is then sieved and folded in in 3 parts alternately with sour cream (sounds odd). Then all of the cooled mixtures from before are slowly added. This is baked in 3 tins and left to cool.
The filling and topping was made by melting more 70% chocolate and combining with even more sour cream however I didn't particularly like the bitter strong taste so I added icing sugar too. The tiers are then stacked and smothered in the chocolatey glue but it looked a bit higgeldy piggeldy so I removed one tier (Don't worry it won't go to waste!) This was probably for the best as the whole things needs to taken to the birthday recipient! Finally I melted white chocolate and drew a 2 and a 5 on some baking paper sellotaped to a tray, then once they were dry carefully peeled them away and placed them on top.
I'm the first to admit that it's not the prettiest cake I've made but it is by the far the chocolatiest! Its really moist, smells amazing and is supposed to improve after a day (although who could wait that long?!) It's got that great dark colour, I'm sure there will be requests for this time and time again!!
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