Cake recipe ideas please! ***Updated with pics***

I made this for OH's birthday - chocolate overload, but looked nice, was actually quite easy, and a good crowd pleaser

or my signature bake is an apple crumble cake, which never lasts more that a day!

Mississippi Mud Cake..made it for Mr fs birthday back in November and its amazing!!

Mississippi Mud Cake

(Makes 3 x 8inch layers)

For the sponge:

9oz Butter

1lb 5oz Castor Sugar

3 Large eggs

1lb 1oz Plain flour

5oz Cocoa Powder

2tsp Bicarb

½ tsp Salt

375ml Buttermilk

1tsp Vanilla Extract

375ml Boiling Water

For the Frosting:

1 3/4lb icing Sugar

4oz Cocoa Powder

5.5oz Butter

1lb 5oz Full fat Cream Cheese

1. Preheat Oven to 170c
2. Cream butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, scraping down sides after each one
3. In another bowl, sift the flour, cocoa powder, bicarb and salt.
4. In a jug mix the buttermilk and vanilla extract together
5. Add the dry ingredients to the creamed butter and sugar in 3 parts, alternating with the buttermilk and vanilla. Mix on a medium speed.
6. Slowly add the boiling water until fully combined
7. Divide evenly between three 8inch cake tins and bake for 35-40 mins (I checked after 25 and it was nearly done!)
8. Remove from tins and allow to cool COMPLETELY before frosting

Icing

1. Mix the cocoa, sugar and butter gradually together on a slow speed until sandy in texture and no large lumps of butter
2. Add a little cream cheese t loosen mixture and then beat until smooth
3. Add the remaining cream cheese and mix on a slow speed until incorporated. Turn up to high and beat until light and fluffy

Assemble bottom layer of cake on a plate or board and add a layer of icing. Add second layer, add another layer of icing before topping off with final layer. Smother sides in icing and finish off by covering the top!! The icing should be quite thick all over J

I want cake.

This.

Me too! I could devour a red velvet cake just now ?

I also want cake. Everyone is baking today!! That missippi mud pie cake looks like the cake from Matilda!! Nom!!!

i can vouch (and not blowing my own trumpet or owt) that it tastes bloody amazing. Like heaven in a cake. serious

This will be my birthday cake this year. Looks AMAZING!

Muppet that's the cake I want to make for my H's birthday but I want to do 2 tiers! And round the edge I'm hoping to use orange matchmakers and fill the middle with peanut m&ms, got to have a trial run this weekend

This is my favourite which everyone seems to go mad on - the almonds keep it really moist and it's just so tasty and really, really easy

Cherry bakewell cake

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/9074/cherry-bakewell-cake

and my version of it (ha a bit flat)

Ha mine looks so flat and drippy and not that nice compared to how it should look, but tastes amazing

Thank you all for your recipes ? They all sound fab!

Looking at the pics, I am scared that I am going to end up with a pinterest fail version of one of these!

Now my next challenge is to find my baking tins which are still packed in a box somewhere....

Wish me luck!

I have updated the OP with some pics ? Thanks again to Flow for the recipe. Mine is not as epic as yours but not bad for a first attempt!

Teabag- your cake looks yummy ?

flow.. do you have your mississipi recipie in grams? my scales don't do pounds ?

Ha, I didn't realise that the recipe was in imperial either until I got to the supermarket to buy the ingredients! I had to park my trolley and find a website on my phone that would do a conversion!

This is what I calculated it to be (happy to be corrected though):

For the sponge -

255g butter

595g caster sugar

481g plain flour

141g cocoa powder

Eggs, bicarb, salt, buttermilk, vanilla extract & boiling water as per Flow's recipe! I actually used about half of the boiling water specified as mine seemed a bit sloppy.

For the frosting -

793g icing sugar

113g cocoa powder

155g butter

595g cream cheese

NOM! It look amaze!