BEST-TASTING CHOCOLATE CAKE COMPETITION
CALLING ALL BAKERS
With just two weeks to closing date, we are looking for the best-tasting chocolate cake invented by a Food Weekly reader. The competition is open to all home bakers (no one who cooks for a living, please) and the recipe must be your own creation.
First prize is R30 000 cash, second R10 000 and third R5 000.
E-mail your recipe and a picture of the cake to food@sundaytimes.co.za with CHOCOLATE as the subject line. Include your name, phone number and physical address and state that you are an amateur baker and that the recipe is your own creation. Entries close on Tuesday June 10. For more information and rules of the competition, visit our Facebook page STKitchenClub
Abigail Donnelly, food editor of Woolworths Taste magazine, is a judge for the 2014 Food Weekly Best Tasting Chocolate Cake Competition, in association with Sandton City and Woolworths. We asked Abigail to share her dark chocolate secrets
My all-time favourite chocolate cake is a milk stout and chocolate cake (pictured left) with butterscotch sauce and dark chocolate icing that
appeared in Taste magazine last year. I love this cake as it’s soft and moist and you can dress it up for a wedding or down for a school event. The combination of caramel and chocolate is heavenly.
I just can’t resist milk chocolate. It makes me happy and, combined in a Crunchie, is irresistible. I grew up in Zimbabwe and one of my best chocolate memories is of my gran bringing home bars of chocolate from her trips to South Africa. A few years ago I visited a designer chocolate shop in Barcelona which was like a perfumery. The chocolatier combined unusual flavours and textures. What stood out was a white, lemon and salt pearl chocolate described as the effervescent Atlantic Ocean. Almost all flavours can work with chocolate.
I say go wacky or classic. Dark chocolate and Gorgonzola cheese is a revelation.
Apart from chocolate cake, I love the combination of chestnuts and dark chocolate — and I never say no to a chocolate coconut cluster. ......................................................