a chocolate sponge cake with cocoa, topped with marbled dark and white chocolate and strawberry hearts.
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Be My Baby Chocolate Cake
a chocolate cake perfect for valentine's day celebrations.
Ingredients
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Directions
- 1
Preheat the oven to 180Ā°C / 160Ā°C fan / 350Ā°F. Grease and line a cake tin.
- 2
Cream the butter and sugar together until pale, light, and fluffy.
- 3
Beat in the eggs one at a time, then mix in the vanilla extract and chicory essence.
- 4
Sift together the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, and salt. Gently fold into the wet mixture.
- 5
Gradually add the milk until you have a smooth, glossy batter.
- 6
Pour into the tin and bake for 25ā30 minutes, until a skewer comes out clean. Cool completely.
- 7
To Decorate: Spread the melted dark chocolate generously over the cooled cake.
- 8
Drizzle over the white chocolate, then use a skewer to feather it into the dark chocolate for that dreamy marbled effect.
- 9
Finish with strawberry hearts on top.
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