A Quite Sophisticated Chocolate Cake

You may be thinking to yourself that a chocolate cake with chocolate frosting is a bit boring but I felt compelled to share it with you because this cake is truly something special.

The special ingredient is sour cream, which is present in both the cake and the chocolate ganache frosting. It really gives the cake much more depth of flavour.

It is taken from Nigella Lawson's "How to be a Domestic Goddess" and confirms her position as the queen of chocolate.

Rhubarb Crumb Cake

Hi all! Sorry for the hiatus, I've been really bust with final assignments for college and now with studying for exams, so baking hasn't really been top of my agenda.

I read about the blog Smitten Kitchen over the weekend and decided to give it a look.

I can honestly say that it is the best food blog I've ever read.

Everything just looks so delicious and her food photography skills are very impressive, I want to eat it all! I recommend that everyone gives it a look.

Anyway, I had some rhubarb knocking around the house so I decided to make this recipe from the blog.

It was really scrumptious, with a gingery sponge base, sharp rhubarb filling and a crumb topping.

You could of course swap the rhubarb for any filling you fancy.

Continue for recipe!