Queen Mother's cake from Maida Heatter's Book of Great Chocolate Desserts by Maida Heatter

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  • bktravels on April 12, 2020

    We love this cake and make it fairly often. Unfortunately, as with a number of Maida's recipes, the baking time and/or the oven temperature is way off. I feel as though it is an experiment every time I make it. My best guess is 45 to 50 minutes total time in the oven. As Alowishs notes, start checking it early.

  • Alowishs on April 02, 2016

    (on page 30) Seventy minutes baking time is too long. Start checking at 55 minutes. I flubbed up the icing - my fault, not Maida's, of course. I added corn syrup because I had no faith in there being enough sugar in the chocolate. I should try to make this again without the mistakes.

  • robinorig on March 04, 2012

    Have played around with the icing, adding corn syrup if I want a glossier icing. My standby chocolate party cake along with the similar Robert Redford cake (larger ad uses honey instead of sugar).

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