We had a little celebration recently - my little girl turned 4 :) and when your little girl asks you for a chocolate sparkly cake with sprinkles - you deliver!
Sparkly sprinkles were the easiest part, as I always have a lot of different sprinkles at home, and seeing as it was just after Christmas I had little, silver balls in my cupboard, which were perfect for the occasion! Now, the chocolate cake part... I've made
chocolate cake good few times and I have few checked and trusted recipes, but... but I wanted to try something different and I wanted a light chocolate cake, which would still have that deep chocolaty flavour, but with less dense texture...
After some look through the Internet,
BBC website in particular, I've found what I was looking for - chocolate cake by
Mary Berry. Who else will I trust with that all important birthday cake, if not HER!? I've adapted her recipe slightly to my own, personal needs - I baked it as one whole cake, instead of baking it as two small round cakes, which you sandwich and then decorate with a frosting. But I still had to make it look special...
Baby E loves chocolate, and I mean she really LOVES it! So why not make it look better by decorating it with melted white chocolate instead of milk or dark one? White chocolate created a perfect background for my silver sprinkles, and made a pretty pattern on the cake, which was shaped that way by one of my bound cake tins. "Proof is in the pudding" as they say - and it turned out to be a hit with the birthday girl. Cake disappeared within 2 days! And I had literally only 3 small slices of it... ;)
How to make it...