Receta White Chocolate Cake - 10 year blogiversary
Today is this blog's 10th birthday. I can't believe it has been 10 years, but it has. Despite all the changes in my life over those 10 years, this blog has been a constant.
I started off as a blog lurker 2 years before I started my own blog, and gradually I decided that I could blog too! Many of the blogs that I used to read no longer exist, and the number of blogs has skyrocketed since I started.
My plans for this blog were quite simple - to document the food that I made. That was my plan then, and it remains the same. This simple goal keeps blogging pleasurable.
I am combining my blogiversary with this month's Red Tractor recipe, which is for white chocolate cake.
Here is the calendar quote for the month, to tie in with Mother's Day:
First up, I made this white chocolate cake from the calendar recipe (top sliced off):
To make a half recipe (which is what I did), you will need:
100g chopped white chocolate
175g chopped butter
1 1/4 cups sugar
3/4 cup milk
1 cup plain flour
1/3 cup self raising flour
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
2 eggs
Preheat your oven to 180 degrees Celsius, and grease and line a 9" round cake tin.
Pu the chocolate, butter, sugar and milk into a large saucepan. Stir over low heat until smooth. Pour the batter into a large bowl and cool for 20 minutes. Whisk in the flours, vanilla and eggs. Pour the mixture into the prepared cake tin and bake for around 45-50 minutes, or until cooked through. Cool the cake in the tin.
It was not clear what kind of chocolate the Red Tractor recipe called for in the ganache recipe. For that reason, I used another recipe for white chocolate ganache, online here.
Once the ganache had started to set up, I decorated the top of the cake with wafer flowers and butterflies and pink disco glitter.
This is a peek inside the cake. I found the cake to be quite sweet, which is not surprising considering the white chocolate. If white chocolate is your thing, this may just be the cake for you.