CHOCOLATE x3... YUM!

Chocolate cake, chocolate icing & chocolate sauce! Find me a choc-lover that can resist this one!!

Cake Ingredients:
1 cup flour
2 tablespoons cocoa
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder

4 egg yolks
1 cup castor sugar
1/2 cup oil
1/2 cup boiling water
1 teaspoon vanilla essence

4 egg whites
1 teaspoon baking powder

Method:
1.Sift together the flour, cocoa, salt and 1 teaspoon baking powder.
2. Beat the egg yolks, castor sugar, oil, boiling water and vanilla essence well.
3. Beat the egg whites with 1 teaspoon baking powder until stiff and fluffy.
4. Fold in the egg white mixture into the egg yolk mixture.
5. Lastly add the dry ingredients.
6. Empty into a greased bundt cake tin.
Bake for +/- 30 minutes



Chocolate icing Ingredients:
125g butter
3 cups icing sugar
1/2 cup cocoa
3 tablespoon warm water
1 teaspoon vanilla essence

Method:
1. Cream the butter and until light in colour.
2. Gradually add icing sugar and cocoa alternatively.
3. Add warm water and vanilla essence. Mix until smooth and light.


Chocolate Sauce Ingredients:
155g Nestle cream
100g cadbury milk chocolate
Oil

Method:
1. Break chocolate into pieces. Drizzle with oil. Microwave until melted.
2. Empty cream into a bowl. Whisk until smooth.
3. Add melted chocolate to the smooth cream. Mix well.


Assemble:
1. Cut the cake in half horizontally.
2. Sandwich with icing.
3. Cover with choc sauce.
4. Garnish with grated white chocolate/nuts/strawberries.

Finally dig in!!

CHOCOLATE CUPCAKES WITH HAZELNUT ICNG

Cake Ingredients: 
1 cup flour 
2 tablespoons cocoa 
1/2 teaspoon salt 
1 teaspoon baking powder 

4 egg yolks 
1 cup castor sugar 
1/2 cup oil 
1/2 cup boiling water 
1 teaspoon vanilla essence 

4 egg whites 
1 teaspoon baking powder

Method: 
1.Sift together the flour, cocoa, salt and 1tsp baking powder. 
2. Beat the egg yolks, castor sugar, oil, boiling water and vanilla essence well. 
3. Beat the egg whites and 1tsp baking powder until stiff. 
4. Add the egg white mixture to the egg yolk mixture and mix. 
5. Lastly add the dry ingredients in. 
6. Divide evenly into cupcake tins. 
Bake for +/- 30 minutes

Hazelnut Icing Ingredients
125g butter
150g hazelnut spread
60ml cocoa powder
500ml icing sugar
40ml milk


Method:
1. Cream the butter and hazelnut spread until well blended.
2. Add the icing sugar and cocoa gradually.
3. Add the milk until the icing becomes spreadable.
4. When cupcakes are cool, pipe the icing on the cupcakes.

A guiltless Indulgence- 2-in-1 Chocolate Body Wash+ Body Moisturiser

Smells good enough to eat up! Seriously! Once applied, stay away from chocolate lovers.

This easy to make 2-in-1 product is oh so simple to make and smells oh so delicious.

Use as a bath milk/cream and thereafter as a body cream.
Chocolate right through!

Ingredients:
500ml Aqueous Cream
400ml Cocoa butter Cream
100g Baby powder

Steps:
1. Mix all three together thoroughly
2. Empty into clean containers.

I emptied half of the cream into the aqueous cream tub and the other half it into a cleaned out Nutella jar. Chocolate and nutella. Fitting, no?

I'm saving the nutella one for the bath and the other tub for my dresser.