i want to cook a nice chocolate cake for my boyfriends birthday
whats the easiest way to do it?
i know im stupid,but iv just starting to get into cooking and want to make one before hand to test it!

im going to put lots of decrations in it etc. but as long as i get the sponge nice thats all that matters!

and how easy is it to put cream in the middle?
i should of payed attention in school.

a) google a recipe that suits your kitchen equipemt (amount of dough vs. size of baking tin is important)
b) ask your mum
c) bake any cake you like and add loads+tons of cocoa powder. which turns every cake into a chocolate cake.
d) putting cream in the middle is a hard job, it needs trial & error or "skills".
but serving it with cream tastes just as good.

I've never cooked a cake before.

But I have baked one.

You probably need to go to cooks.com and search a 2 layer chocolate cake. But If you haven't baked a cake before, you might want to skip the layers and make a nice one layer. You might also want to buy a box of duncan hines or betty crocker quick cake, if you've never made one from scratch . Otherwise, you're going to bake yourself a headache.

Get your hands on The Cake Bible ~ Rose Levy Berenbaum...

It made my life.<3

i always make my cakes out of the box

AHHH!

Sacrilege!

Nigella Lawson's chocolate cloud cake


if you scroll down you'll see the recipe for the chocolate cloud cake.... it's lovely..
next time I make it i think I'm going to skip the whipped cream part and just dust it with cocoa powder, though.



and here's the recipe for a cake that a won a competition for (a very unofficial competition at a friend's party, but whatever... everyone voted for it.. )

you need

6 eggs
200 grams of sugar
125 grams of dark chocolate
3 tablespoons of butter
120 grams of wheat flour
1 tablespoon of cocoa powder
2 tea spoons baking soda


Beat the eggs with the sugar until it's thick and white. Melt the chocolate and butter. Carefully blend the chocolate mix and dry ingredients into the egg/sugar mixture.

Pour the batter in a greased pan, leave it in the oven at 175 degrees Celsius for about half an hour.


For the icing:

120 grams of butter
200 grams of dark chocolate
2 eggs
400 grams of icing sugar


Melt the butter and chocolate. Beat the eggs and slowly stir them into the chocolate along with sifted icing sugar.