Help - B day cake for Teenager!

[tortzblue]

My lad turns 16 tomorrow and I want to bake him a cake. I'm not good at cakes. So any nice EASY recipes out there? He loves chocolate and fudge brownies etc . I've got some dark chocolate and cocoa and lots of fresh eggs.

[manda]

If you want to make a chocolate cake this is one I make regularly...make s a lovely moist cake.

Ingredients

175 g butter, softened

1 cup sugar

3 eggs

3 tablespoons cocoa

1/2 cup boiling water

2 cups Edmonds plain baking flour

1 teaspoon Edmonds baking powder ..obviously you can't get edmonds bakin gpowder but I don't think that matters...and I add 2 teaspoons of baking powder.

Method

Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy

Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition

Dissolve cocoa in the boiling water

Sift flour and baking powder together

Add to creamed mixture alternately with cocoa mixture

Pour mixture into a greased and lined 22 cm round cake tin

Bake at 180°C for 45-50 minutes or until cake springs back when lightly touched

Leave in tin for 10 minutes before turning out onto a cooling rack

When cold ice with Chocolate Icing or dust with icing sugar if desired

Or you could make the chocolate into a ganache and cover the cake with that ...This is an easy ganache

All you need then is to add whatever filling you like.

This cake freezes really well too

[tortzblue]

Thanks Manda - He and his friends are gonna love it!

[manda]

Hope so...we have it quite a lot (in fact I've got one in the freezer now)...let me know how you get on...be interesting to know what you think of it.

[tortzblue]

YUMMY! He really loved it. I'd never made a ganache so I was pleased how nice it came out. Didn't even get a pick before it was devoured I'll def make it again. Thank you so much!

[manda]

Glad to hear (it would have been a real downer if they didn't like it!!!) ...well done