Out Of The Frying Pan!

Velveteen hosting today's Out Of The Frying Pan event!  Here's the notes from today's event - looks delicious!  Thanks Velveteen...

Chocolate's a pretty universal love, so I decided to find some delicious but relatively easy recipes to utilise it, and hopefully motivate you to give it a try.

Picture gallery - http://s1376.photobucket.com/user/velveteenscribe/library/Chocolate

Chocolate Truffles-

Equipment-

Glass bowl

Saucepan

Spatula

Teaspoon/ Melon Baller

Baking Paper

Ingredients-

250 grams Good Dark Chocolate

250 ml Double Cream

50 grams Butter

Cocoa Powder

Flavourings (Vanilla pods, alcohol, orange, whatever.)

This is basically a ganache recipe, and can be used for many things other than truffles!

Chocolate cake-

Equipment-

Mixing Bowl

Cake tins (20cm / 8inch for these quantities)

Baking paper

Wooden spoon

Spatula

Ingredients-

225g/8oz plain flour

350g/12½oz caster sugar

85g/3oz cocoa powder

1½ tsp baking powder

1½ tsp bicarbonate of soda

2 free-range eggs

250ml/9fl oz milk

125ml/4½fl oz vegetable oil

2 tsp vanilla extract

250ml/9fl oz boiling water

Can use butter to replace the vegetable oil. Preheat oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4. 25-35 minutes rough cooking time. Use Ganache to top!