Amazingly Easy Chocolate Cake

This is a dark moist and delicious chocolate cake and its so easy to make. Its perfect for any occasion and can be adapted to your taste by adding orange zest or any other flavourings that your heart desires.
Try it!

Chocolate Cake with ganache icing

Ingredients:

• 250g dark chocolate roughly chopped
• 250g butter
• 1 teaspoon instant coffee
• 4 eggs beaten
• 1/2 cup Castor sugar
• 1 cup self raising flour
• 1/2 cup ground almonds/hazelnuts

Ingredients

Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 160 degrees Centigrade.
2. Grease a 20cm spring form cake tin and line the base with baking paper.
3. Melt the chocolate, butter and coffee powder in a heatproof bowl over a saucepan of hot water, stirring occasionally until smooth. Allow to cool (the butter, chocolate and coffee can be melted in the microwave for 1-2mins, stir until smooth) 
4. With an electric beater, beat the eggs and sugar for 4-5 minutes, or until pale and fluffy.
5. Beat in the cooled chocolate mixture until smooth. 
6. Gently fold in the flour and the ground almonds.
7. Pour the mixture into the prepared tin and bake for 50-55minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.
8. Leave to cool in the tin for 10 minutes before turning out. 
9. Allow to cool completely on a wire wrack before icing and decorating.
10. I iced my cake with chocolate ganache. With 250g of dark chocolate melted and 100ml of cream. poured over the cake and left to drip over the sides. Then I grated 45g of white chocolate onto the top. Use whatever icing you prefer or you can simply dust with icing sugar.

Delicious Lemon Polenta Cake!

It was my dads birthday on Sunday and he loves eating anything with a lemon flavour, so after making lemon tart after lemon tart over the past few years I wanted to try something different and this months "Taste" Magazine was just the inspiration I needed. I love the Woolworths taste magazine its always full of ideas and new recipes for me to try. I love the "month of meals" recipe special section and the new "Taste Guide to Really Good Cooking" where they incorporate the discount for Woolworths cardholders and make recipes for affordable cooking. This cake had an amazing texture and lemon infused taste. Try it!

Lemon Polenta Cake

Ingredients:

Cake:

• 100g fine Polenta
• 100g ground almonds
• 100g shredded coconut
• 1-teaspoon baking powder
• 2 lemons juiced and zested
• 250g butter
• 250g caster sugar
• 4 eggs

Lemon glaze:

• 200g icing sugar
• ½ lemon juiced

Ingredients

 Method:

1. Preheat oven to 160 degrees and line a 23cm cake tin with baking paper.
2. Combine the Polenta, almonds, coconut and baking powder with the lemon zest.
3. Cream the butter and the sugar until pale and fluffy.
4. Add the eggs 1 at a time and beat in between.
5. Fold in the lemon juice and the dry ingredients until just combined.
6. Spoon into the prepared cake tin and bake for 1 hour or until a skewer inserted comes out clean. Cool then pour over the glaze.
7. To make the glaze, place the icing sugar in a bowl together with the lemon juice and beat into a smooth paste.

Enjoy

Recipe Source: Woolworths Taste Magazine