Forum Thermomix
Thermomix Recipes for TM5 and TM31 => Cakes => Topic started by: Bedlam on November 17, 2011, 10:57:08 pm
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250g unsalted butter
200g Cadbury milk chocolate
1 Tablespoon of instant coffee
11/2 cups boiling water
13/4 cups caster sugar
2 eggs
11/2 cups SR flour
1/2 cup cocoa
Method
preheat oven 160C.
lightly grease and line tin. (this makes a large cake, the mix is quite runny and its sticky when cooked so make sure you line the tin)
Dissolve coffee in boiling water.
Combine butter and chocolate in TMX 3min 50 sp 2 or until melted
add coffee/water mix and sugar, sp 2 until combined and sugar dissolved
add eggs, cocoa and flour. interval until combined.
Bake for 1 hour to 1/14 (although I find it usually takes longer in my oven) allow to cool in pan.
We use this for all our special events.
members' comments
Terri - it was a wonderful cake, everyone loved it and all wanted seconds. Sadly for myself there were no left overs. Thank you so much for sharing that recipe.
maddy - Loved this cake Denise! Thank you. I poured the batter into 3 sandwich pans and baked for 37 minutes, middle rack. Also let the cakes cool completely in the tins and they came out easily. For the icing I blitzed 100g cherry jam until smooth and runny, then set aside. I made a double batch of creamy vanilla frosting (minus the vanilla extract), and subbed with the jam. Absolutely will make again.
This works well for cupcakes too. I set the oven on 170oC and baked the smaller cupcakes for 23 minutes...and the larger ones for 27 minutes. Topped with the creamy vanilla frosting, with only 1 tsp. vanilla extract, and 50g strawberry conserve (blitzed first).
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Bedlem, this looks great, Thanks. DH doesn't like dark chocolate so will really enjoy this.
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Chookie, we make this all the time, its a lovely rich cake. If you think the TMX instructions need modifying please let me know. I play but forget to write it down.
I usually buy 2 bars of chocolate one for the ganache!
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Great cake Bedlam. I guess if you used Lindt flavoured chocolate you could lightly flavour it. I was thinking orange intense.
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How many grams is in a cup ? ???
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of which ingredient jkelmum.
this may help http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=3154.0
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I made this last night for my Son's birthday, it was a wonderful cake everyone loved it and all wanted seconds (which there wasn't any of) sadly for myself there were no left overs :( thank you so much for sharing that recipe
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Hi all! I am making my sons birthday cake tomorrow which will be in a Wilton decorative tin. Was thinking I would use a double quantity as the tin is quite large. The only problem I can forsee is trying to get it out in one piece.
Do you think this recipe will be suitable?
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Hi @Homemum, there is a cake release recipe on the forum somewhere that might help so your cake comes out in one go.
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Here's (http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=7350.0) the cake release thread.
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Thanks Judy, I'm not sure how to add links from tapatalk so leave it up to someone else :)
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I havent figuered that out either mandi but have no time to play with i either..
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OK so I am now on my 3rd attempt of making this mud cake in the airplane tin. Fingers firmly crossed.
1st time I brushed the pan with melted copha and covered in flour (as the directions on the pan stated)
2nd time I sprayed in generously with canola spray.
Both times ended in the cake splitting in half through the middle and me having to scrape the rest out from the base :(
That was last night.....
Today I made the cake realease and brushed that all over the pan. It's in the oven now. If it doesn't work this time I will ditch the mud cake idea and just do a normal sponge recipe as I am wondering whether it is to dense or all the chocolate and sugar is making it stick?
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Either that or toss the airplane tin @HomeMum ;) Fingers crossed for a success this time though.
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Gee @HomeMum I hope it works for you this time. Fingers and toes crossed for you.
What are you going to do with all that cake?
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another failure! >:(
All the cake is in the freezer. Luckily for me I did a Cake Pop class last week. You make them with discarded off cuts of mud cake mixed with choc ganash or cream cheese. So I now have enough cake to make about 300 cake pops! So all the cake will now stay in the freezer untill I get some sticks. I think cake pops will be on the menu for DS2's 1st birthday in June. :P
Going to try a normal butter cake recipe tomorrow and hope that I get better results with that.
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@HomeMum, have you seen our cake pop Queen Maddy's cake pops - scroll down to check out some pictures on this (http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=4880.0) thread and here's (http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=2496.0) another one
Then there's these (http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=320.4800) (first posting) and these (http://165.69.151.11/forums/viewtopic.php?p=339710&sid=27cb9b4419355fede9e83d987913a77b) lovely wedding pops. I'm sure there are a lot more but these are just a few I found.
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Bugger @HomeMum, what a shame. I have trouble with moulded cake tins, I think some cakes work and others don't. Gee hope the next one works for you or you will be making 400 cake pops lol. :)
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OK so attempt #4 is now in the oven. This time I am trying this one- Basic Butter Cake - Lady Flo Bjelke-Peterson
Coated the pan in the cake release from the recipe linked above. Fingers crossed once again :D
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Oh my goodness. Attempt 4 better work. Wouldn't want to be any where near you if it doesn't ;D
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;D Yay! yay! yay! ;D
Attempt #4 worked beautifully. The butter cake recipe was perfect. Breathing a huge sigh of relief here.
(http://i258.photobucket.com/albums/hh280/LillyBella75/photo-1.jpg)
Milk choc mud sadly did not want to come out of the tin. Even after 3 attempts
(http://i258.photobucket.com/albums/hh280/LillyBella75/photo.jpg)
Butter cake came out beautifully first time.
Thanks everyone for your encouragement, help and advice.
Now that the cake saga is all over I am heading back to the kitchen to start baking the cookies!
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Oh I bet that was a relief. Looks perfect well done ;D
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it does look good @MM ;D
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How cute is that, glad you finally got yourself a cake to decorate @HomeMum. Persistence pays off.
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Loved this cake Denise! Thank you :)
(http://i618.photobucket.com/albums/tt266/nachothecat/086d73e2.jpg)
I poured the batter into 3 sandwich pans, and baked for 37 minutes, middle rack. Also let the cakes cool completely in the tins, and came out easily.
for the icing I blitzed 100g cherry jam until smooth and runny, then set aside. I made a double batch of creamy vanilla frosting (minus the vanilla extract), and subbed with the jam.
absoluteley will make again :-*
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OMG MADDY
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Maddy your cake looks far good to eat. Wow your presentation is amazing. It wouldn't really matter if the cake was made of cardboard as it looks wonderful :)
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Yum Yum , could I have a coffee with my slice please....
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You've outdone yourself Maddy. Happy Mother's Day. :D
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I am going to have to try this recipe. My daughter can eat a block of Cadbury's in one sitting so it will be perfect for her. What do you usually use for frosting/ icing?
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Any icing would work ;) If she's a chocoholic, and nice chocolate ganache perhaps.
The icing I used was the creamy vanilla frosting (http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=6722.0) with added cherry jam as mentioned above.
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This works well for cupcakes too.
(http://i618.photobucket.com/albums/tt266/nachothecat/9d1f05a6.jpg)
(http://i618.photobucket.com/albums/tt266/nachothecat/bbe2f495.jpg)
I set the oven on 170c, and baked the smaller cupcakes for 23 minutes...and the larger ones for 27 minutes.
Topped with the creamy vanilla frosting, with only 1 tsp. vanilla extract, and 50g strawberry conserve (blitzed first).
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These look absolutely amazing Maddy! You're so creative! I'm part impressed, part inspired, and just a little jealous... ;-)
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Hi Maddy,
Can you please tell me how you make the icing flowers? Do you use an icing bag with a special nozzle. They look awesome!
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Hi mistyseas - I think Maddy did it the same way as this, this is where I learnt it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvpdnm041uQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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Hi Maddy,
Can you please tell me how you make the icing flowers? Do you use an icing bag with a special nozzle. They look awesome!
The link Jakodai posted is how you do them. Really simple....a Wilton 1M tip, keep your bag vertical and pipe from the centre to the outside. The creamy vanilla frosting (http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=6722.0) is the perfect icing for these.
Thank you J.....you are a sweetie :)
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Thankyou for your responses. I can see a practice session looming!
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Celebrating DH PhD graduation with this cake. I'm using Cadbury Premium baking Chocolate 45% and Nature's Cuppa instead of coffee. Baking in the oven now.