KIDS PARTY RECIPES | Chocolate and Raspberry Birthday Cake

heavy cream

🥗Healthier: coconut cream

💰Cheaper: milk + cornstarch

Coconut cream adds richness while reducing dairy.

dark chocolate

🥗Healthier: dark chocolate with stevia

💰Cheaper: semi-sweet chocolate

Stevia reduces sugar content, while semi-sweet is more accessible.

Put self-raising flour in a big bowl.

Add cocoa powder to the bowl.

Add baking powder to the mixture.

Add caster sugar to the bowl.

Add 4 eggs to the mixture.

Add room temperature unsalted butter to the bowl.

Heat up some milk and add chocolate until it melts, then pour it into the mixture.

Whiz the mixture until well combined and paler in color.

Pour the batter into a baking tin, ensuring it covers the base.

Bake in the oven for about 40 minutes.

Make the chocolate icing using a homemade banmarie with a bowl and saucepan, or use a microwave.

Melt chocolate in the banmarie, then add icing sugar and butter to mix.

Once the cakes are out of the oven, spread raspberry jam all over the surface of one cake.

Place the second cake on top of the first.

Use chocolate fingers around the edges of the cake.

Insert raspberries evenly around the top of the cake.

Cooking Techniques

Equipment Needed

Spice Level:

Allergens