Tuesday 22 January 2013

~Chocolate Cake~


My (not so) Small Boy is 11 today.  What a year for change 2013 will be...High School for J, and hopefully off to University for L.
This is his birthday cake.  The loveliest chocolate fudge cake (recipe from Carnation found by my best friend Jo). It's now become the cake of choice in this house.  The chocolate fingers were an inspired addition to ramp up the chocolatey calories!

If you're looking for the perfect chocolate cake,  the recipe for the chocolate fudge cake can be found on Carnation's website here
P.S I substitute the corn oil with sunflower oil.
Also a thrifty tip to make it cheaper - Carnation Caramel is approx £1.75 for a 397g tin.
Morrisons sell a copycat version Farmlea Caramel for £1.15 for the same size tin.

10 comments:

  1. Happy Birthday to you (not so) Small Boy! :) x

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  2. Happy Birthday to your son! Hope he has a great birthday, I'll bet he enjoys his cake!
    Gill xx

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  3. Well, that's making my lunchtime yoghurt and banana seem VERY dull and boring!!! I want chocolate!!! ;-)
    Happy birthday to your son!
    Carly
    x

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  4. Happy Birthday to your son. I love the cake you can never have too much chocolate in our house. My children love chocolate fingers so I will be trying this...
    Rosezeeta.

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  5. Happy Birthday to your son. I hope that you all have a lovely day! Jx

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  6. What a Yummy cake, hope you all had a lovely time, my yougest son was born on 22nd, birthdays all round !
    Thea x

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  7. Looks and sounds wonderful Sally, I will have to check out that recipe, yum yum! x

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  8. I hope it was a wonderful Birthday.
    That cake looks fab-and i love the tips, my Mum has edited all of her cookbooks with things like that.
    x

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  9. Hope your lad had a great birthday. I bet that scrumptious looking cake didn't last very long!

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  10. Hope he had a great birthday, that cake looks yummy

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