Absolutely yummy! Devil's Food Cake & Chocolate Mousse Buttercream taken from Jill O' Conner's Sticky Chewy Messy Gooey. The cake batter is a bit tricky esp. when adding the cake flour as flour pockets might develop, so have to fold it really well. But it is the most delicious, moist & soft chocolate cake ever. Live up to it's name as Devil's Food Cake. Jill's Chocolate Mousse Buttercream compliments well with the cake and i like the fact that it is also relatively stable in this our hot weather. I was afraid that frosting the entire cake with the chocolate mousse buttercream will be too much and personally i prefer the cake to be covered with chocolate fudge icing.
I found a fudge icing recipe from Nigella Lawson but it didn't turned out quite what i expected and almost wanted to throw the entire frosting away. However, i was adamant to get it right and experimented further by adding a few ingredients on my own and finally managed to create the chocolate fudge icing that i wanted in terms of taste & consistency. I'm in love with this fudge frosting - it sets so well! But I am not too sure if i can repeat the same frosting though..lol!..i can't recall exactly what i added..:p
As for decoration, it was a last min thing and totally effortless..i couldn't stand seeing the cake un-decorated, so i just add a few butterflies and some flowers..not fantastic deco but i guess better than nothing..lol!
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Lovely looking cake. The pink decorations are very pretty. I'd be interested to know which Nigella recipe you used so I can avoid making the same mistake myself.
Faithy - what a beautiful cake. I lovce the contrast of little pink flowers and the white butterflies against the dark. You made putting together the different recipes and making the cake sound so easy and effortless!
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Looks nice.
@Sarah, @Jenn & @Mendy: Thanks for your kind words!
@Sarah, here is the recipe for Nigella's fudge cake recipe: http://www.ivillage.co.uk/food/whoscooking/articles/0,10103,165631_176880-2,00.html
I think her icing was too sweet and tasted more buttery than chocolaty. That's why i added a lot more chocolate in order to rid the butter taste and the sweet icing sugar.
@Jenn, not true, wait till you read my upcoming post on woody's lemon cake..gosh..hahaha..my cake ended looking like something else..and not like cake..hahahaha..
I love the butterflies with the fudge icing.
It is beautiful.
Thanks Shoshana! :)
Very Pretty : )
Raychel - MyCreativeWay.blogspot.com
Quite a lovely cake, very delicate decorations. It looks so yummy. I wish you could remember the recipe!
Oh wow, these do look heavenly!!
Thanks Raychel, Vicki & Tracy for your kind words!
I would love to receive copies of the recipes that you used for this cake. It looks absolutely lerapen (as my grandmother would say)!
@Stephanie: I'll try to type out the recipe when i have time. :) I have very limited time at home on the computer as my kids are always using it, but i'll do my best.
effortless or not, that looks very spectacular!
must have tasted fantastic aswell.
Thanks Cathie! :)
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