Bimby Chocolate Cake

[Cornish Cream]

Love the "bugs" Maddy. Looking forward to the next decorating creations.

[cookie1]

I'm a slack person and haven't looked at this post for a while.

ILB that Barbie dolly varden is beautiful. It is a credit to you.

Maddy I do love the cupcakes. Well done.

Thermomixer, another grandchild, congratulations. Making birthday cakes is wonderful as it so easy to cover the errors and the children are usually never aware. Just lots more icing.

[Thermomixer]

Great work - wonder you could do anything after 3 bottles of bubbles !!!  Special occasion or just your usual Saturday night

I know Geelong won - but 3 bottles ?

[CreamPuff63]

gorgeous maddy  you certainly let the imagination run with the extra help you had with the bubbly  well done!

[maddy]

Great work - wonder you could do anything after 3 bottles of bubbles !!!  Special occasion or just your usual Saturday night

I know Geelong won - but 3 bottles ?

  There was lots of food consumed in between, and this friend and I always have much to talk about!
The time flies and next you know you've drank 3 bottles worth inbetween chatter 




  GO CATS! 

[cookie1]

I'm going to be very sheepish about the team I support this year.

[judydawn]

They say sheep are followers - I'm with you on this one Cookie. There is a bit difference between the top and bottom sides this year and I can't even jump ship to the other side as they are not doing well either 

[Frozzie]

ok im adding to the already thousands of replys but thank you ILB..made this cake this afternoon and yummo..so incredibly quick and actually tastes good and its light..very impressed..never thought that quick and good went together!!

as they say in france ..chapeau. (bascially hat off to you, bravo etc etc)

also i noticed your decorating for bday cakes etc..good to see others doing it..most of my friends buy bought decorated cakes..its a tradition in our family to make our own..the kids choose the cake they want and mummy makes it..usually out of hte WW birthday cookbook.always gets lots of wows over here..kids bday parties are usually a pretty basic packet cake, some kind of drink, a bag of lollies to take home and an hour and a half at the bday kids house and thats it..this year im doing a lunch and afternoon with homemade sausage rolls, fairy bread etc etc, lots of games..how i remmeber when i was a kid..!

[judydawn]

Lovely to hear you are showing the French how us Aussies do it Frozzie - gotta love those WW cookbooks!  You may start a whole new trend for children's birthday parties over there.

[Thermomixer]

also i noticed your decorating for bday cakes etc..good to see others doing it..most of my friends buy bought decorated cakes..its a tradition in our family to make our own..the kids choose the cake they want and mummy makes it..usually out of hte WW birthday cookbook.always gets lots of wows over here..kids bday parties are usually a pretty basic packet cake, some kind of drink, a bag of lollies to take home and an hour and a half at the bday kids house and thats it..this year im doing a lunch and afternoon with homemade sausage rolls, fairy bread etc etc, lots of games..how i remmeber when i was a kid..!

Yes, I had to make the Number "1" from that book for our grandson - it has lots of names alongside cakes for various birthdays.

[cookie1]

I've made quite a few birthday cakes out of the WW books. Part of the fun was DD selecting which cake she would have each year.

[~ - Jules - ~]

Thanks Bimby for this AWESOME recipe. It was my sweetheart's birthday yesterday, I made this recipe with White Wings GF SR flour and then made a strange sort of ganache topping. It was divine. It's going into my essential recipe collection that's for sure.

Just wondering if you used the same amount of gluten free flour as "normal" flour in this recipe?  I know a lot of recipes the quantities need tweaking.

Thanks

[I Love Bimby!]

So very glad everyone is having such success with this one.  I really do hope it replaces the Too Easy Chocolate Cake in the EDC. I don't like that one at all.

Thanks Bimby for this AWESOME recipe. It was my sweetheart's birthday yesterday, I made this recipe with White Wings GF SR flour and then made a strange sort of ganache topping. It was divine. It's going into my essential recipe collection that's for sure.

Just wondering if you used the same amount of gluten free flour as "normal" flour in this recipe?  I know a lot of recipes the quantities need tweaking.

Thanks

For DD's birthday cake I did exactly the same and substituted equal amounts of normal flour for GF flour but I think I used the Orgran brand instead.

[~ - Jules - ~]

Cool, I have orgran in the cupboard so I might give it a go this weekend

[Carrie]

I have this in the oven now, making a Bob the Builder scene cake for DS's 3rd birthday.

The mix tastes b****y beautiful, so I bet the cake will too. Thanks for the recipe!