Hi All,
I'm new here and new to baking - I just baked for probably the first time since I was at school (I'm now 36!) I made a small portion of this recipe http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1337/seriously-rich-chocolate-cake as a tester in preparation for making it as a surprise birthday cake for my partner. I chose it because he likes chocolate cake and I don't eat wheat.
It went really well, good consistency, tastes nice, but I wouldn't say it was rich or very chocolaty. I looked at this recipe http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/flourlesschocolateca_93580 and the chocolate, butter and sugar are double or even more to the same number of eggs. (I didn't choose this one as I don't have a blender.) There are some other differences as well of course, like the second one doesn't include ground almonds.
I'm just wondering if I can increase the amount of chocolate, and possibly sugar & butter, in the first recipe without messing up the consistency and how it will cook? I'm not sure I'll be able to do another test either as it as hard enough doing this ond without him finding out!
Any thoughts greatly appreciated.
I'm new here and new to baking - I just baked for probably the first time since I was at school (I'm now 36!) I made a small portion of this recipe http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1337/seriously-rich-chocolate-cake as a tester in preparation for making it as a surprise birthday cake for my partner. I chose it because he likes chocolate cake and I don't eat wheat.
It went really well, good consistency, tastes nice, but I wouldn't say it was rich or very chocolaty. I looked at this recipe http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/flourlesschocolateca_93580 and the chocolate, butter and sugar are double or even more to the same number of eggs. (I didn't choose this one as I don't have a blender.) There are some other differences as well of course, like the second one doesn't include ground almonds.
I'm just wondering if I can increase the amount of chocolate, and possibly sugar & butter, in the first recipe without messing up the consistency and how it will cook? I'm not sure I'll be able to do another test either as it as hard enough doing this ond without him finding out!
Any thoughts greatly appreciated.