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- From: alicia@unsw (Alicia Parmiter)
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- Subject: RECIPE: Chocolate cake
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- Date: 16 Jan 87 04:45:16 GMT
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- Organization: University of NSW, Australian Graduate School of Management
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- .RH MOD.RECIPES-SOURCE CHOC-CAKE-2 D "10 Jun 86" 1986
- .RZ "QUICK CHOCOLATE CAKE" "Dangerously delicious chocolate cake"
- .IH "1 cake"
- .SH CAKE MIXTURE
- .IG "1\(34\-2 cups" "self\-raising flour" "175\-200 g"
- .IG "1\(14 cups" "caster sugar," "250 g"
- or white sugar chopped in the blender
- .IG "6 Tbsp" "cocoa," "50 g"
- (Use more if you like)
- .IG "\(12 tsp" "bicarbonate of soda" "2 g"
- .IG "\(14 tsp" "salt" "1 g"
- .IG "2" "eggs"
- .IG "1 cup" "milk" "250 ml"
- .IG "4 oz" "butter or margarine" "120 g"
- .IG "\(12 Tsp" "vanilla" "2 ml"
- .SH TOPPING
- .IG "1 cup" "cream," "300 ml"
- whipped with a little icing sugar
- .IG "3 oz" "cooking chocolate" "100 g"
- .IG "\(12 oz" "copha" "15 g"
- .IG "" "nuts"
- .PH
- .SK 1
- Sift the dry ingredients together in a mixing bowl.
- Soften the butter and add with the milk and vanilla to dry ingredients.
- .SK 2
- Beat for 2 mins with a wooden spoon or until smooth.
- Add eggs and beat another 2 mins.
- .SK 3
- Pour into
- .AB "an 8 inch" "a 20 cm"
- round cake tin (I find the collapsible type best). Cook in a moderate
- .TE "350\-375" "180"
- oven for 1 hour.
- .SK 4
- Turn the cooled cake over, slice into two layers and fill with cream.
- Melt chocolate with copha (do not burn) and pour over cake, dribbling
- it down the side. Decorate with almonds, pecans or walnuts.
- .NX
- Self-raising flour is popular in Britain and Australia, and hard to find in
- North America. Substitute
- .AB "2 cups" "200 g"
- of ordinary all-purpose flour with
- .AB "\(12 tsp" "2.5 ml"
- of salt and
- .AB "3 tsp" "15 ml"
- of baking powder mixed in.
- The North American equivalent of caster sugar is ``granulated sugar''.
- There is no equivalent of copha, but a mixture of butter and coconut is
- better than nothing. Crisco has the right cooking properties to substitute
- for copha, but the wrong flavor.
- .PP
- You can pour a little Grand Marnier into the cake before
- spreading the cream in the middle, but it doesn't need it.
- .SH RATING
- .I Difficulty:
- moderate.
- .I Time:
- 10 minutes preparation, 1 hour cooking, 1 hour to cool and 5 minutes
- decorating. 5 minutes to eat.
- .I Precision:
- Measure the ingredients, though the cocoa and cream are not critical.
- .WR
- Alicia Parmiter
- Australian Graduate School of Management, Uni of New South Wales
- alicia@agsm.unsw.oz seismo!munnari!agsm.unsw.oz!alicia
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