Old-fashioned chocolate cake from Feast - Food That Celebrates Life (UK) (page 269) by Nigella Lawson

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  • stef on April 19, 2025

    This was such an easy cake to make. Very moist ,chocolate intense, not too sweet and the frosting was a pleasure to work with. Will repeat

  • Foodycat on November 16, 2024

    Simple and good. The butter needs to be pretty soft, not just room temperature, and cut into small pieces to blend easily. The recipe says to check at 25 minutes and mine was pretty much done by then. Edited to add: I had some sour cream leftover, and some frosting left (because I filled mine with something else) and my husband had been moaning that he hadn't had enough, so I made a single layer using a half quantity of the mixture. Instead of butter I used olive oil (80% of the amount of butter) which blended more easily and gave a more tender texture when refrigerated.

  • Ro_ on January 09, 2023

    I'm not a great baker, but I was pleased that this came out so well! I didn't have two same-sized cake tins, so I used one slightly smaller than the other which means it came out as a dome, but I think it kind of works. My cakes were cooked after 25m. This was a great chocolate cake and I loved the icing.

  • wester on March 15, 2022

    Simple and very good. It did need shorter in the oven than stated, so keep a good eye on both tins. We used the ganache from Nigella Bites instead of the frosting given in the recipe.

  • JJ2018 on April 09, 2018

    A family favourite. Tastes as Nigella promises - though always make this the long way round, the food processor method Nigella lists gave a speckled cake - butter too cold probably

  • KarinaFrancis on July 16, 2017

    It's a good basic chocolate cake. I chose it mainly because you throw everything in the processor and blitz, which was perfect because I had an excitable 3yo apprentice. I didn't make the icing, which I think was a bit of a mistake on my part

  • fayt on October 27, 2012

    Great, easy, delicious recipe. Massive hit!

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