Chocolate Simple Cake

I had to make a birthday cake for my friend, so I decided to use one of nanna's recipes. Chocolate cake always goes down a treat, so that is what I decided to make. Doesn't the final product look impressive??
The Recipe

Click on the link above to view the full recipe. It's a simple chcolate cake originally from the Bourneville Cocoa Company, by the looks.

It makes a great looking batter:

I actually made two double batches because I was feeding a big crowd. I cooked each double batch in a lamington tray, then once they were cooled, I placed one on top of the other and put fresh cream between the two layers.

The icing was the fun part!
The Hints

I iced the cake with a chocolate ganache. Yum! Then I made chocolate curls and added fresh, cut strawberries. For instructions on how to do these, google! That's what I did and it turned out ok. I also bought gingham ribbon and tied bows to toothpicks to get the bow feature.
The Positives

This cake was delicious. Even multiplying the recipe still made a tasty treat.

The Issues

I can't recall any. Once again, you have to convert to metric, but I've resigned myself to having to do this throughout this blog! It's not a mud cake though so be prepared that it is much lighter and less denser under all of that chocolate ganache!

The Rating

9/10
As you can see, it got eaten!

Defiance Coconut Drops

Nanna obviously cut this recipe off the side of a flour packet. I guess that they printed them on there in those days....or maybe they still do, but I buy generic flour so probably would never know!

Date of Origin

Unknown

The Recipe

If you click on the picture above, you will get a larger version of the original!

Melting the margarine was easy:
The mix looked nice! I love coconut!
Rolling into balls and putting in the oven:
Finished and cooked:
The Hints

It's a pretty straightforward recipe. My only concern was that you have to convert to the metric system.

The Positives

I do love coconut. And my kids liked these so they were good for putting in school lunchboxes.

The Issues

I don't know if I got the conversion correct. I think that they ended up with more a cake-like texture than what they should have!

The rating

6/10