Not a cupcake, but still cake!

Brooklyn Blackout cake to be precise.

I used a recipe from the The Hummingbird Bakery Cookbook and i'm not going to say it went fab but it was 8.30pm that i decided to start baking it, so i guess thas no-ones fault but my own!

Basically it is a chocolate cake, but instead of frosting or ganache, the filling is a very thick chocolate custard, now this is the part i don't recommend attempting to make when your a bit tired last thing in the evening, as not only did i make things ten times more difficult for myself but there were two casualtys from this baking session - a whisk and a sieve!

Oh yes, the joys of cornflour, i wont be using that ingredient again for a while, i mean 200g of cornflour with 120ml of water, im sure whoever wrote that recipe was somewhere laughing a very evil laugh when i was attempting to "mix" the two! And where did the sieve come into it? When the custard had thickened and i still had a whole load of lumps!! Ok, im not the worlds greatest cook, i admit that!

So anyway, witht the sponge i only had 2 cake tins instead of 3, so its not as tall and pretty but i think it still looks pretty darn nice, especially with the milk, white and dark chocolate i grated on top!

Conclusion? well i'm not a huge fan of chocolate cake anyway, there are only two i have found that i like so far - one from costa coffee, and another from thorntons, both of which are sweet and fairly gooey.  Now this cake would be labeled "tame" for the people who like chocolate cake but always complain it's too sweet, i found it not to be sweet enough for my taste, but i can understand that others would potentially enjoy this more than your other mainstream chocolate cake recipes.

What next? Back to cupcakes for me!