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Race night Chocolate Cake

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Chocolate ganache covered chocolate cake decorated with continental chocolate's Baked a chocolate Victoria sandwich cake on Friday for a race night fundraiser.  Third one I've made in 2 weeks, Iv pretty much memorised the recipe now.   First one I made was for a good friends birthday.  Topped with M&M's and jammy dodgers round the side.  I don't normally do decorations, I went with the most over the top cake I could make. Jammy Dodgers for her big heart Second cake was for my evening reading group, to celebrate one of the lady's birthdays.  Due to a last minute visitor she couldn't make it.  The rest of guys had no problem eating it though. By the third cake I'd finally figured out the best way to cover the cake with the chocolate ganache.     It was suggested by my mother to go for a more dignified decoration on this one.  So I used continental chocolate's to make a clock face.  So...

Mexican Food and chocolate birthday cake

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Chiquito Lunch Burrito Bowls - Veggie Chilli Had a great meal out on Monday at  Chiquito Restaurant   in Dunfermline with one of my good friends.  Her birthday had been the week before, so I had baked her a belated birthday cake.   Chocolate Birthday cake recipe To make dairy free , use dairy free butter for the cake. For the ganache use dairy free chocolate and depending on your personal taste try using soya cream or coconut milk.   To make Vegan, use a chocolate wacky cake recipe for the base.   I turned to my one of my baking idols Mary Berry for the Recipe, the decorations were all my own though.   I baked a full dairy 2 layer chocolate cake, sandwiched with seedless raspberry jam.  I  frosted it with chocolate ganache, sprinkled the top with Crispy M&M's and put jammy dodger biscuits round the outside. Why jammy dodgers?  Well why not?   I wanted to make a really over the top ca...