Saturday, November 6, 2010

Three tier chocolate cake


Junior Masterchef has taken hold at the Q household with my youngest two sons keen to get into the kitchen. We decided to let them try the Donna Hay 4 tier chocolate cake recipe which can be found here. Does it work making it gluten and egg free? Oh yes!!


We simply substitued gluten-free flour (I used Aldi's gluten free plain flour) and Orgran No-Egg instead of the eggs. We also doubled the recipe and cooked it in a rectangular tin as I didn't have the cake tin sizes recommended in the recipe. I cut the cake into 3 evenly spaced pieces and we made a 3 tier bar cake. We didn't double the icing mixture as we thought it would be enough. The consistency of this cake was like mud cake and the chocolate cream cheese icing was so nice! It was a definite winner here. You just need to make sure that you use icing mixture that does not contain wheat starch (Aldi fit the bill again here).