Georgina Hayden’s chocolate party cake

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Take your birthday cake to the next level by baking this Greek version.

Georgina Hayden’s chocolate party cake

Serves

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People

Prep Time

15

Minutes

Cooking Time

30

Minutes

CUISINE

Greek

COURSE

Baking

Method

  1. The A 175 Water Simmer Saucepan Small The Brandy Millilitres Heat, Sugar Medium A Stick, Caster To And Then Of Over In 150 With Grams Cool Minutes Leave To Bring Until Cinnamon For Syrupy 5 Boil Place The Of

  2. On A Until A Increase Whisk And Oven Grease After Then High The Tray To A Place 30cm Aside X Minutes, A A 200 The Speed Set Speed Bowl Grams Caster 5 Of Eggs Mark Minute, In Of For Chocolate, Four The The And Remaining Microwave In Fan/gas The Sugar Or Butter Pan Pale Your Chop The Melt Whisk Preheat Deep 190°c/170°c Voluminous Mixer 20cm Small And To Medium Finely Stand With

  3. Are Pour The Over Melted And Sea Holes The And Into It Dry Until Bicarbonate Ingredients Poke Skewer Just And And The Bake Baking Cooled Syrup Then When Cooked Eggs Leave The Fold Of When Milk Whisk The 25–30 And Es From The Minutes, Chopped Over Salt Batter Clean, Cool To Out A The Oven Separate Bowl, A Butter, In Done Soda Powder, The Flour, Oven Prepared For Grams All Ready, Powder, Remove Together Cake Cocoa Is The Fine Or Of Mixing Whisk The Inserted In Through In 50 Tray Tin Chocolate The Meanwhile, And In Evenly Into Plain Sponge Cake The The In Drizzle The

  4. Until In Then Minutes Slowly 10 Or 30 Chocolate The Over But Not Double Boiling For Smooth With Pour 200 A The Chocolate, Cake Bowl Remaining The For Cool Or Place Grams To Of As Immediately Cream It Cream Hot, The Topped It Ganache, Leave Then The Make Chopped Heat Spread Serve Until Seconds, Sprinkles To Is Is Stir Heatproof Over Fruit The Leave

Ingredients

  • Caster 375g Sugar

  • 1 Stick Cinnamon

  • 50ml Brandy

  • 125g The Butter, For Plus Unsalted Tray Extra

  • And Half Like (i And Half) Chocolate Dark 250g Milk

  • 3 Large Eggs

  • Flour 175g Plain

  • Cocoa 75g Powder

  • Baking Powder 1tsp

  • Of Bicarbonate Soda ½tsp

  • Sea Fine Salt ½tsp

  • 200ml Milk Whole

  • Cream Double 250ml

  • Or (optional) Fruit Sprinkles

Method

  1. Simmer Of Heat, Boil Sugar In Cinnamon Until With Syrupy Millilitres To Small A Stick, Place Leave 5 Minutes Medium 175 Bring To Over Cool Grams A For Water Then The The Of And Saucepan Brandy 150 The Caster

  2. Whisk Place And Set Medium Speed The A 20cm Of A In Increase X For To Of Mixer 190°c/170°c Grams 5 And Caster Bowl Eggs Sugar A Deep Fan/gas Preheat Then To The Small The Or Remaining Chocolate, High After Chop Finely Microwave A And Stand 200 The On A Voluminous Butter Whisk Oven The Minute, In Your Speed Melt Four 30cm Grease Aside Tray The With Until Minutes, Pale Mark Pan

  3. In Then When Oven Sea And Melted Cool Cooked Of Until Separate From The A Flour, The Salt Cake The Are In Meanwhile, The And Mixing Cake Grams Chopped For Dry In The Through Sponge Evenly Tin Together The The Over Is The Holes Poke The And The The The Over A All Powder, 50 Skewer Out Of Whisk Remove Bowl, The Fine To Chocolate Cooled The When And Bicarbonate It Ready, Es Tray 25–30 Fold And Plain Ingredients Clean, Oven Cocoa Whisk And Powder, Just Syrup Into Leave Eggs Inserted Or Minutes, Drizzle Prepared In Into Bake In Baking Butter, Done Milk Pour Soda Batter

  4. It Cream In Over Is Is Ganache, Boiling Until With Fruit Then Slowly Chopped Double The 30 For Cake The The Until Serve Chocolate, Not Chocolate Smooth But Over Topped To 10 Of Cream It Cool For A As Heat The Spread Sprinkles Stir Leave Make Minutes Seconds, The Heatproof Or Place Bowl Remaining Leave Then Or The Pour Grams To Immediately Hot, 200