{"id":798,"date":"2011-01-10T20:41:13","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T20:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/?p=798"},"modified":"2011-02-06T17:49:09","modified_gmt":"2011-02-06T17:49:09","slug":"chocolate-and-apple-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/?p=798","title":{"rendered":"Chocolate and apple cake"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This week’s cake is chocolate and apple cake. Very nice and egg free. Thanks to Emily and Donna for the recipe.<\/p>\n

Recipe<\/h2>\n

Cake:<\/h3>\n
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  • 4oz butter (softened)<\/li>\n
  • 8oz caster sugar<\/li>\n
  • 1lb stewed apples (so about 1 1\/2lb uncooked before\u00c2\u00a0 peeling and coring)<\/li>\n
  • 8oz self raising flour<\/li>\n
  • 1\/2 oz cocoa (I think I doubled both cocoa quantities!)<\/li>\n
  • 2 tsp baking powder<\/li>\n
  • 2 tsp bicarbonate of soda<\/li>\n
  • Some cinnamon and nutmeg (I just guessed)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    The original recipe also suggested raisins, but the person I got this from said that it is better without but it is personal opinion<\/p>\n

    Icing:<\/h3>\n
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    • 5oz butter<\/li>\n
    • 4 tbs cocoa (again I used 8!!)<\/li>\n
    • 5oz icing sugar sifted (I used fondant icing to make it smoother)<\/li>\n
    • 3 tbs milk<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Method:<\/h2>\n
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      1. Preheat oven to 170C.<\/li>\n
      2. Grease a tin (doesn’t really matter what size or shape, but you may want to double quantities if it is a big tin).<\/li>\n
      3. Peel and core apples and put in the microwave until stewed (about 6 mins in mine).<\/li>\n
      4. Cream butter and sugar.<\/li>\n
      5. Add flour, cocoa, baking powder, cinnamon and nutmeg to butter and sugar (don’t think you need to mix this particularly but it can go in the same bowl).<\/li>\n
      6. When apples are stewed and have cooled slightly, add bicarbonate of soda to them and stir whilst it grows, then add to the other ingredients and stir until smooth.<\/li>\n
      7. Bake for about 30-40 mins (I would check it isn’t getting burnt at 30 mins).<\/li>\n
      8. Slowly melt butter in a pan.<\/li>\n
      9. Add cocoa to butter, turn up heat a bit and cook for about a minute.<\/li>\n
      10. Add icing sugar and stir so there aren’t any lumps.<\/li>\n
      11. Very soon the texture will go yucky and you will think that it has gone wrong. Don’t worry – this is where you add the milk.<\/li>\n
      12. Stir until it is smooth and remove from heat to cool.<\/li>\n
      13. Don’t ice the cake until it has cooled as the icing is quite runny and it won’t stay on the cake!<\/li>\n
      14. Om nom nom nom<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        This week’s cake is chocolate and apple cake. Very nice and egg free. Thanks to Emily and Donna for the recipe. Recipe Cake: 4oz butter (softened) 8oz caster sugar 1lb stewed apples (so about 1 1\/2lb uncooked before\u00c2\u00a0 peeling and coring) 8oz self raising flour 1\/2 oz cocoa (I think I doubled both cocoa quantities!) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":803,"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions\/803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}