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asked April 20th 2015

jane hornby’s chocolate cake for carving

Hi,
I was just wondering if anybody used jane hornby’s rich dark chocolate cake for carving and if so how it compares to paul’s?
I love paul’s recipe but as many find it a bit hit and miss unfortunately sometimes being perfect and others a complete sunken disaster!
I was just wondering about jane hornby’s before another expensive mistake!

Many thanks in advance 🙂

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Hi,
I was just wondering if anybody used jane hornby’s rich dark chocolate cake for carving and if so how it compares to paul’s?
I love paul’s recipe but as many find it a bit hit and miss unfortunately sometimes being perfect and others a complete sunken disaster!
I was just wondering about jane hornby’s before another expensive mistake!

Many thanks in advance 🙂

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Hello fi28

I love Paul’s recipe too and bake it very often. Jane Hornby’s recipe is slightly more dense, I bake this one frequently too, particularly for carving. Jane’s recipe has never collapsed for me, it has excellent reviews on the BBC food site and on this site too. However, if you haven’t read through comments on Paul’s recipe it would be worth your while doing so. Find the comments here:

‘Paul’s moist chocolate cake’ My feed back


Later comments discuss tweeking the sugar amounts which reduces the risk of collaspse and has worked successfully for all members who have done so.
There is another chocolate cake recipe which may be of interest to you here:
http://www.cakeflix.com/blog/how-to-make-chocolate-mud-cake
I have also baked this recipe with excellent results, as have other members.
You have some choices, hope they help.

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Hello madeitwithlove,

Thank you very much for your help… again! I shall definitely have a go at all these and try tweaking the sugar.

Greatly appreciated thank you very much.

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I also make jane hornbys chocolate recipe, but make it a couple of weeks in advance, and freeze it first.

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Thanks Sharon54 I will have a go at freezing it 🙂

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You’ll find pages and pages of information on site about freezing cakes, just type in the search box
‘freezing cake’. x

@ Sharon54 thank you for your input too x

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Thanks MIWL x

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