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For Steve’s Dads birthday I decided to make a cake version of the cupcakes I made on Steve’s birthday.

I doubled my basic chocolate cake recipe:

chocolate cake

Ingredients

• 175g butter, softened
• 2 tsp vanilla essence
• 1 ¾ C sugar
• 3 eggs
• ½ C cocoa
• 2 C plain flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1 C milk

Method

1. Preheat oven to 200°C. Line a muffin pan with paper cases.
2. Combine flour, cocoa powder, choc chips and caster sugar in a bowl. Make a well in the centre.
3. Add milk, butter, eggs and vanilla essence to flour mixture.
4. Using a large metal spoon, stir gently to combine.
5. Spoon mixture into prepared muffin pan.
6. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.
7. Stand in pan for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool.

 

runny chocolate icing

• 1 T butter
• 2 T cocoa, sifted
• 1 C icing sugar, sifted
• Splash hot water

Mix the butter, cocoa and icing sugar together. Add hot water until you get a runny consistency

 

peanut butter icing

Ingredients

• ½ C peanut butter
• ½ C cream cheese
• 1 ½ icing sugar

Cream the peanut butter and icing sugar together then sift in icing sugar to get the consistency that you like.

  

assembly

• Cut the cake in half
• Cover both the base and top of the cake with a thin layer of runny chocolate icing
• Spread on half of the peanut butter icing on top over the base. I piped around the edge so that it had a nice finish.
• Place the top of the cake over the iced base
• Spread on the remaining icing on the top of the cake
• Place chocolate covered peanuts around the edge

 

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