{"id":1024,"date":"2016-09-08T18:02:59","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T17:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cedar-chase.org.uk\/cc\/?page_id=1024"},"modified":"2018-01-17T10:43:48","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T10:43:48","slug":"cc50-birthday-cake-recipe","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cedar-chase.org.uk\/cc\/?page_id=1024","title":{"rendered":"CC50 birthday cake recipe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several folk have asked for the recipe for the birthday cake. I made double these quantities.<\/p>\n

Cake<\/strong><\/p>\n

500g plain flour
\n500g caster sugar
\n1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
\n1 tablespoon baking powder
\n1\/2 teaspoon salt
\n150g cocoa powder
\nHalf a 284 fl oz pot of Elmlea single cream
\n150ml olive oil
\n4 large eggs
\n1 teaspoon vanilla extract
\n7 fl oz freshly squeezed orange juice plus the grated rind of 1 orange<\/p>\n

Line a 250mm x 310mm (10″ x 12″) tin with greaseproof paper and lightly grease and flour it.
\nPreheat oven to 180 degrees (160 for fan oven), gas mark 4.
\nMix all dry ingredients. Add the remaining ingredients and whisk using a mixer for 3 minutes.<\/p>\n

Cook for 40 minutes. Test with a skewer – if still sticky, give it another 5-10 minutes.
\nLeave for 20 minutes then turn out onto a wire rack to cool.<\/p>\n

Butter cream for the middle<\/strong><\/p>\n

100g unsalted butter
\n200g icing sugar
\n1 desert spoon cocoa
\nA drop of vanilla essence
\nTablespoon of freshly squeezed orange juice<\/p>\n

Mix together with whisk.<\/p>\n

Glaze for the top<\/strong><\/p>\n

100g good dark chocolate broken into pieces
\n40g unsalted butter cut into cubes
\n3 tablespoons freshly squeezed orange juice
\n75g icing sugar<\/p>\n

Melt chocolate in a bowl over hot water. Stir in the sieved icing sugar.
\nAdd butter and stir until fully incorporated (and don’t panic!).
\nRemove bowl from heat and add juice one tablespoon at a time.<\/p>\n

Leave to cool for about an hour. The glaze needs to still be spreadable but not run off the cake.
\nCan be put in fridge to speed cooling but keep a very close eye on it.<\/p>\n

This cuts into 8 x 7 (56) reasonable size pieces.<\/p>\n

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The birthday cake<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Several folk have asked for the recipe for the birthday cake. I made double these quantities. Cake 500g plain flour 500g caster sugar 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda 1 tablespoon baking powder 1\/2 teaspoon salt 150g cocoa powder Half a 284 fl oz pot of Elmlea single cream 150ml olive… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":487,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1024","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cedar-chase.org.uk\/cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cedar-chase.org.uk\/cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cedar-chase.org.uk\/cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cedar-chase.org.uk\/cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cedar-chase.org.uk\/cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1024"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cedar-chase.org.uk\/cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027,"href":"https:\/\/www.cedar-chase.org.uk\/cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1024\/revisions\/1027"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cedar-chase.org.uk\/cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cedar-chase.org.uk\/cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}