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In Episode 39, we bring you some great Thermomix chocolate cake recipes. The criteria for this week’s recipes were that they had to be simple chocolate cake recipes – not too fancy, not mud cake, not layered chocolate cake… just a simple chocolate cake that was delicious, easy and suitable for a range of dietary requirements.
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Here are the recipes we chose this week:
Recipe 1 – Simple Chocolate Cake (The 4 Blades)
Thanks to our friends Dan's grandmother for this traditional recipe turned into a Simple Thermomix Chocolate Cake. Can be made in the traditional way, or GF / DF. Best served warm.
Recipe 2 – Magic Bean Cake (Hungry Hungry Hippies)
This is Joe’s new favourite cake (apart from his New York Baked Cheesecake… he really loves that one!). This is moist, stores well, can be served without icing (it has a shiny top!) and can be made grain and dairy free, if required. We used xylitol, so it was also better on the blood sugar levels too. There are versions of this recipe on different sites, and the Recipe Community, but we found this version to be great!
Recipe 3 – ‘Free From’ Chocolate Cake with Choc-Coconut Icing (Me and My Thermie)
How fabulous that Lesley from Me and My Thermie has provided an egg-free cake that is moist and delicious! Making an egg-free cake can be challenging enough, but this one is also quite tasty and light. Well done Lesley! The icing also complements it! This was designed to be a Jaffa Chocolate Cake, but in keeping with the ‘rules' of this week's podcast, it was chocolate only.
Here are some cool tips from this podcast…
– Clean batter out of the TM bowl by setting to Speed 6 / 20 seconds.
– Make your own gluten free baking powder by following the tips in Episode 21 of the podcast.
– Save a container in your cupboard by only keeping plain flour and add 1tsp of baking paper per cup of flour to turn it into self-raising. – – Check out how we line our cake pans here:
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Cheers guys! You are so inspiring and entertaining with your podcasts!
And you come up with such great recipes so we’re inspired by YOU!
The best quick Thermomix chocolate cake I have found is this one. I make it in a rectangle Chefs Toolbox slice tin, halve it and sandwich with chocolate Philly cheese frosting.
Then I take it to my thespian friends. I am very popular backstage.
http://www.theannoyedthyroid.com/2013/03/31/thermomix-naughty-chocolate-fudge-cake/
Picture of my version here http://tinyurl.com/nue9ptq
We bet you are! Thanks for sharing… we’ll give it a try!
Having just completed a few 2.5 hour drives to Sydney in the last few weeks, I am all but caught up on the podcasts… Realised as I was listening to this episode that I needed to make my dad a birthday cake. I had all the ingredients for the Magic Bean Cake and after listening to Joe’s excitement, we made it and everyone LOVED it!!! Thanks for the recommendation… Tomorrow night’s dinner is Bec’s Lamb Ragu, can’t wait! Thanks for a great podcast! Keep coming with the dad jokes and dodgy puns Joe! My daughters love them!
Well that has just made our day!!! Thanks so much for letting us know… absolutely awesome to hear that you are trying new things in the kitchen! Absolutely love that!
Magic bean cake is devine! Have made it twice now for visitors and people are totally amazed by ingredients! Yum! Such a find – thank you!
Late to the party but I found a Guinness Chocolate cake (inspired by Nigella Lawson)…fabulously moist and very hoppy if you get the right guinness :-), The magic bean cake is fabulous too.
Here is the link for the Guinness cake: http://www.cookwithjanie.com/recipes/Guinness_Chocolate_cake.html
Thanks Ian! Awesome tip!