I would be posting Tipsy Tart – the alternative to Christmas pudding that I made on Christmas day. It’s a South African recipe and like all their puddings – delicious! In the chaos however I neglected to photograph it so I’ll just have to make it again and post it at a later date.

This therefore is not a very Christmassy recipe but delicious all the same, I always like trying new chocolate cake recipes. It’s from the Chocolate book I’ve used quite a lot now and I made it for my sort-of-sister-in-law’s ‘cake day’ to celebrate the impending birth of Ivy’s cousin.

It’s a melted chocolate recipe, something I seem to have trouble doing lately – I don’t seem to be able to heat it to the right temperature or I keep burning it. Not sure what’s going on, a whole bar of Green & Blacks wasted though, most annoying.

Everybody seems to be making cupcakes at the moment. I baked them for my friend whose birthday it was on Friday and fortuitously she had just received a tiered cake stand from another friend – perfect timing!

I just got this recipe from the internet but used a simple butter icing as I didn’t have enough chocolate to melt. I’d like to make that killer American-style frosting some time, when I have the patience to mess about with separating eggs (not that complicated I know, I was just feeling lazy).

I also used the little silicone cupcake moulds, a present for my birthday. It would be nice idea to bake someone little cakes in them as a complete gift. I’ll have to do that some time.

These were delicious and very moist, I couldn’t resist the Hundreds and Thousands!