Read on for my recipe for chocolate raspberry cakes
Sometimes you feel like having cake, dessert after a meal, just something sweet, a treat if you will. Most often that is when you have nothing of the sort lurking in the larder. If you have been smart enough to have this notion with an hour in hand and a few bits and bobs in the cupboards you can whip up these chocolate raspberry cakes and get your sweet fix with no trouble at all.
This quick, easy and pretty scrummy dessert can be so easily made with store cupboard basics and it can look good enough for a tea party or supper time pud.
Chocolate and raspberries go together a bit like pees and carrots as Forrest Gump would say. If you haven’t got raspberries then strawberries would be just as good for this.
Quick and easy
I am a huge believer that cooking and baking should be as quick and easy as possible. Don’t get me wrong here, when I have time I love to potter in the kitchen. The whole business of taking my time, stirring a pot, chopping veg, whipping up desserts can be very therapeutic. However having said that most of us are always in a bit of a rush and do not have such luxury as time.
These simple little chocolate raspberry cakes fit the bill on the quick and easy front and taste marvelous too. So roll up your sleeves, whip up some culinary magic and pour yourself a cuppa and enjoy these chocolate and raspberry cakes.
Karon x
Chocolate & Raspberry Towers
Ingredients
- 175 g plain all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- pinch of salt
- 25 g cocoa powder
- 150 g caster super fine sugar
- 100 g unsalted butter
- 2 medium eggs
- 125 ml milk
- FILLING
- Icing sugar
- cream cheese
- vanilla extract
- raspberries
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4 Line a baking tray/swiss roll tin
- Beat together the butter and sugar until fluffy.
- Sift together the flour, cocoa powder, salt and add half to the sugar and butter mixture.
- Whisk the eggs along with the milk and add half to the above mix. Then follow with the rest of the dry ingredients and finally the rest of the liquids.
- Spoon the cake batter into the oven tray and spread out to about 1/2cm (1/4") thick.
- Pop into the oven for approximately 10 minutes or until it springs back when prodded lightly in the centre. Leave to cool before cutting out rounds with a simple cookie cutter (or upturned glass).
- Starting with just a tablespoon of cream cheese, add a few drops of vanilla extract and start stirring in the icing sugar. You want to build up till you have a paste that holds its shape a bit when you spread it thickly on the base cake.
- Cut two raspberries in half lengthways and place the 4 halves on top of the sweetened frosting. Now use an extra little dollop to act as glue for the next layer to sit on. Cover this with the frosting and more berries and the final cake lid.
- Sprinkle with icing sugar to finish off.
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sounds yummy!