Trusted British chef recipes, tested at home
Mary Berry’s chocolate cake with oil is a moist, dark cocoa sponge made with sunflower oil, golden syrup and milk. Two sponges are split into four layers, then covered in a glossy plain chocolate and butter icing. Allow about 75 minutes, plus time for cooling and setting. Berry calls this her Death by Chocolate Cake …
Nigella Lawson’s chocolate cake with coffee buttercream is a moist, fudgy two-layer chocolate sponge, deepened with espresso and sandwiched and topped with a smooth coffee buttercream. It cuts into 8 to 12 slices, from her book At My Table. She calls it reassuringly easy and very popular in her house, needing nothing more taxing than …
Jamie Oliver’s chocolate cake is a flourless, five-ingredient sponge of dark chocolate, butter, eggs, golden caster sugar and cocoa, baked in a tray in 15 minutes. It’s gluten-free and serves 16. In Simply Jamie (2024) this isn’t a finished iced cake but a base, built to become other puddings. Jamie bakes it, then turns it …