Ben's birthday!



 

birthday boy and a .hersheys black magic cake with ganache icing



i think this chocolate cake recipe is the best ive ever tasted and the worst ive ever made!  as i cant find baking soda in italy, i substituted baking powder in the hopes it would work. some internet twit said it bicarb was 4 times as strong as baking powder. so tamarin adds 4 times the amount of baking powder to the mix and i think the mixture was bubbling. i know it would explode so i put in on a baking tray. it overflowed and filled the entire tray! sunk in the middle and was a bit soggy. but i slathered chocolate ganache all over it and wow ganache really works wonders :)



i also made strawberry truffles and biscuits which arent worth putting up photos of. do you know that you can only buy icing sugar in 125gr packs?! i mean really!


the birthday boy looking smart in his new tie!