BBC Good Food

29 December 2008

Tested

"I made this for a family get-together. Like some of the other cooks, my cake sank a bit, but was just about ok to cut into three slices, with a bit of patchwork. The biggest problem was the dark chocolate icing. I used the recipe in the magazine and I don't remember it saying to leave the dark icing to cool and thicken, only the white icing - that might have been my problem, as I used it straight from the pan and it just ran off the cake and sank into pools. Fortunately I had enough cream to make a ganache, just mixing melted chocolate and cream together, and that covered the cake well and hid the many cracks. It tasted great and looked fine in the end, but I could have done without the stress of the icing mess."