A birthday cake (not only) for kids
As if we wouldn’t eat more than enough sweet food during the next few months…
It was Jan’s birthday, and I baked the same cake as every year: a hazlenut-chocolate cake.
I got the recipe from a baking dish I bought several years ago; it had the right size for a teeny weeny cake, but I just multiplied the amounts to fit for one pack of ground hazlenuts.
You need
200 g butter
200 g sugar
4 (whole) eggs
200 g flour
2 teaspoons of baking powder
200 g hazlenut meal (I doubt that’s the right term for ground hazlenuts?)
100 g chocolate dropshalf a pack of chocolate flakes (approx. 100 g)
Stuff for decoration
Stir butter, sugar and eggs until they stop making this odd grounding noise.
Add flour, baking powder and hazlenut meal, stir well.
Add chocolate.Fill in a form of 26 cm diameter. (Of course, you could use any other form but then you’ll have to test how long it’ll take to bake.)
And that was it!
Takes 25 – 30 minutes at 180 °C in a convection oven to get a nice brown color and can be decorated after cooling. And decoration is the most important part – at least for Jan! Each and every year, the decoration has to be different, to be created with chocolate, marzipan, icing and food color...
It was Jan’s birthday, and I baked the same cake as every year: a hazlenut-chocolate cake.
I got the recipe from a baking dish I bought several years ago; it had the right size for a teeny weeny cake, but I just multiplied the amounts to fit for one pack of ground hazlenuts.
You need
200 g butter
200 g sugar
4 (whole) eggs
200 g flour
2 teaspoons of baking powder
200 g hazlenut meal (I doubt that’s the right term for ground hazlenuts?)
100 g chocolate dropshalf a pack of chocolate flakes (approx. 100 g)
Stuff for decoration
Stir butter, sugar and eggs until they stop making this odd grounding noise.
Add flour, baking powder and hazlenut meal, stir well.
Add chocolate.Fill in a form of 26 cm diameter. (Of course, you could use any other form but then you’ll have to test how long it’ll take to bake.)
And that was it!
Takes 25 – 30 minutes at 180 °C in a convection oven to get a nice brown color and can be decorated after cooling. And decoration is the most important part – at least for Jan! Each and every year, the decoration has to be different, to be created with chocolate, marzipan, icing and food color...
8th birthday: crocs on a river bank (icing, crocs were made of marzipan).
9th birthday: cake with a therizinosaurus (marzipan dino, green dots are pistachios).
10th birthday: This is supposed to be the Hockenheim racing course... (racing track contours and cars made of marzipan; this year I bought the chocolate letters – exceptionally).
Jürgen helped creating this, because the stupid marzipan was so sticky. Anyway, this year’s cake was less artistic than those of the last years, but as delicate as ever, although I replaced melted chocolate by a fat chocolate coating (dunno what that is called in English).
posted by Claudia at 14:09
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