To make this icing, melt the chocolate and butter in a good-sized bowl either in the microwave or suspended over a pan of simmering water. Go slowly either way: you don't want any burning or seizing. While the chocolate and butter is cooling a little, sieve the confectioners' sugar into...
To decorate, place the chocolate-covered coffee beans in the centre of the cake and arrange the gold stars around the perimeter of the top of the cake. Then sprinkle some gold mini-balls over the whole cake and sprinkle the top with edible glitter. ...
Still, once a year I do consume a bit of Guinness to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day — not in a pint glass, but in Nigella Lawson’s dark, moist Chocolate Guinness Cake. (Image credit: Susie Nadler)(Image credit: Susie Nadler) This cake couldn’t be easier to make—it’s a single...
likes nothing better than running her finger round the mixing bowl, then giving it a good lick as she pouts at the camera; indeed, a woman who is cheerfully frank about her fondness for cake.But a certain confusion seems to have crept into the Chocolate Orange Cake recipe about whether to...