Chocolate Cake for …
Well when I did get back to proper cooking, I had to make something chocolaty (that is a word!) for youngest mouse who had been off 
chocolate for the whole of 2009. This recipe came from Jim’s Kitchen. I’ve made a number of different chocolate cake recipes over the years. This recipe struck me as more healthy, (if chocolate cake can be) and very quick and easy. The dry ingredients, dark cocoa, plain flour, castor sugar, bread soda and baking powder were mixed together. The wet ingredients, eggs, sunflower oil and milk were mixed and then honey was mixed in. The wet ingredients were mixed with the dry ingredients, the mixture was put into a lined cake tin and baked for 50 minutes.
The icing was made by heating chocolate and cream. The cake was cut into three layers and each was covered with icing.
For the icing, I used dark chocolate. If, when repeating it for youngest mouse, I will use milk chocolate. Whilst I did weigh all the ingredients, I would probably add a little more honey next time.
This recipe goes into the ‘Definitely repeat category’.
Nyom, nom 
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Nyom!Nom! is right – this looks gorgeous Lily.I am salivating at the picture you posted! I am still on my quest for the perfect chocolate cake so must check this out.
Marie, I’m exactly like you, looking for the recipe for the perfect chocolate cake. I liked this one because 1) it was so easy, 2) it used sunflower oil rather than butter. I’m going to try it again with a few tweaks. I think this could be it!
Now I’m REALLY excited
Oh that looks wonderful, I haven’t had anything sweet for two weeks….unless you count fruit.
Marie
Val, fair play to you. Cooking experiments put on weight! I can definitely vouch for that.
Talking about chocolate cakes, Lily, I made a flourless Clementine cake (consisting of clementines, eggs, sugar, grd. almonds, baking powder) topped with dark orange chocolate (from the Green and Black’s Chocolate Recipes book that you gifted Breanna with) the other weekend and it was delicious. For people who have Celiac disease, this is an excellent flourless desert.
Niamh, I just went looking for my copy of that book. Now I will try that recipe, it does sound really good and straight-forward. I love Maya Gold Chocolate
I’m writing this as you commented over on Xbox4NappyRashes site congratulating him on the birth of his daughter.
I am writing it here because this post is down the page a bit and i don’t want him to see it
A while ago, before Martin’s (xbox4nappyrash) wife got pregnant I promised I would post a youtube video of me singing “Yes” by Mcalomont & Butler whilst accompanying myself on the ukulele to celebrate the birth of their child.
This will not be a pretty sight as I can neither sing, nor really play the ukulele (this isn’t false modesty – I really can’t).
However what I thought might make it really cool would be instead of just a straight video I put together a montage of videos shot by readers of his blog all celebrating – i.e. dancing, sticking thumbs up, cheering, holding up signs, that sort of thing. It would have to be something that would work without sound as I would put my (awful) soundtrack over the top of it.
It would be great if you could participate. If you send me a short 5-15 second video clip (or at a push a photo, but a video would be much better) along with your name and blog then I’ll put it together with other submissions and get something ready for the end of the week. I think it would be a really nice thing to do for martin to show him and E how pleased we are for him. and Martin has been incredibly supportive of me and my various projects in the past.
Thanks for taking the time to read this. My email address is dghughes28@yahoo.co.uk
Thanks again.
Dan.