The cake is a dense dark chocolate cake with a chocolate ganache and chocolate curls. The recipe calls for three layers, but I just cooked mine in two sandwich tins, I just didn't feel comfortable cutting a cake in three, that's just an accident waiting to happen if you ask me! It was my first go at making chocolate curls. Not entirely successful but still looked half decent and still tasted very nice!
It's simply superb. Not the type of cake you can wolf down, but more the type that you can enjoy, small pieces at a time. Very very filling and it certainly hits the spot with chocolate lovers. It's simply heavenly with a scoop or two of vanilla ice cream.
Pink champagne helps it all go down quite nicely too ;-)
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Ooooh wow! Can I come to your house please??? xx
Oh my goodness that looks so good - would kill for some chocolate cake at the moment, I'm not feeling good so want to eat my way to health again!
You could always send your commentors a big slice!! xxxxx
That looks YUM. I love BBC Good Food - such an amazing resource!
I know what you mean - I made a choc and vanilla marble cake at the weekend and smothered it with chocolate butter cream. It was delicious but so enormous that half of it has already gone in the freezer!
ps. try baking the mixture in two sandwich tins then cut both in half for 4 layers. Makes for less cutting trauma and 4 layers looks fancier too! ;¬)
Love the presentation! Looks wicked! I'd be pleased too...sounds like the ideal cake! Happy Birthday to Mr Petit Filoux too! xxx
oohhhh my, that's one gorgeous looking cake! Send some my way, pretty please :-D
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yum yum! what a great job you did. happy birthday to Monsieur Petit Filoux!
(and despite what you say, i feel quite confident that I could wolf that cake down! haha)
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