Steve Joll's chocolate cake and truffle recipes - 8 December
Giant chocolate cake
Bourbon chocolate truffles
Bourbon chocolate truffles
50g
butter
2 tablespoons bourbon
100g chocolate
1 teaspoon cocoa
1 cup icing sugar
Coconut
Put Butter and Chocolate in a pan, heat slowly until both have
melted.
Add half a cup of icing sugar and stir until just
thick.
Stir in Bourbon and Cocoa and add enough of icing sugar until
stiff
Roll into balls, big or small, roll in coconut
Chill
Giant chocolate cake
2 cups of sugar
2 large eggs
1 cup of milk or unsweetened yoghurt
3/4 cups of cocoa powder
200g of butter, softened
2 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1/4 tsp salt
3 cups self-raising flour
1 cup boiling hot coffee
Heat oven to 160degC.
Line a 30cm / 12 inch round cake tin with baking paper.
Place all ingredients in the bowl of a food processor and blitz
until combined or place ingredients in a mixing bowl and beat with
an electric beater.
Pour batter into tin and smooth the top.
Lick the spatula.
Bake for 1 hour or until skewer inserted into the centre comes out
clean.
Cool in tin.
Can be frozen!
