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Chocolate Celebration Cake Recipe
Our Chocolate Celebration Cake recipe has been made across our shops for over ten years, this showstopper of a cake has a light and moist sponge and a rich chocolate ganache. Great to make for any celebration.
This chocolate celebration cake recipe makes 1 x 11″ round cake, or 2 x 6″ round cake
Serves one large or two small round cakes
Ingredients
- 272g self-raising flour
- 60g cocoa powder
- 10g bicarbonate of soda
- 182g caster sugar
- 272g golden syrup
- 225ml milk
- 3 eggs
- 225ml sunflower oil
For the Chocolate Ganache Icing
- 500g double cream
- 500g dark chocolate
- 1dsp golden syrup
Method
- In the bowl of a mixer, stir all the dry ingredients together.
- Measure out the milk and syrup in one bowl, and the eggs and oil in another.
- With the mixer on slow, pour in the milk and syrup, whisk thoroughly.
- Beat the egg and oil together, then add to the mixer and whisk on med/high speed, stopping a couple of times to scrape down the sides of the bowl.
- Pour into the cake tin and bake at 150°c for 40 mins.
- To make the chocolate ganache icing, put the double cream, dark chocolate and golden syrup in a bowl over a baine marie and melt until it's all combined and glossy.
- Leave to cool to room temperature before icing the cake.
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