It *is* icing sugar, although we did make a lot of Charlie Sheen jokes at the picnic. So here's a recipe for a Charlie Sheen cake, to be served with a generous glass of tiger blood - but only to Winners! It's based on my mother's old brownie recipe, and an answer to my boyfriend's challenge that I tend to make rather dry cakes. Eat this!
You can make this up to 4 days beforehand, but keep it in the fridge. Do the sugaring stage just before serving, so that you can safely cover the cake with clingfilm without smudging the numbers.
Birthday Cocaine Cake For Winners
You Will Need: 24cm round springform tin(s), scales, wooden spoon, teaspoon, large bowl, small bowl, whisk, smaller bowl, fork, saucepan, dinner knife, chopping board and sharp knife, cheese grater, clingfilm, tinfoil, sieve or tea strainer, dessert spoon.
For the Cake:
100g dark chocolate
130g butter
350g caster sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
130g self raising flour
80g walnuts
100g raisins or sultanas
4 eggs
For the Filling:
2 egg yolks
30g caster sugar
dessertspoon plain flour
1 teaspoon cornflour
140ml milk
4 squares grated dark chocolate
small pot whipping cream
2 punnets fresh raspberries
icing sugar
1) To make the cake. Grease and line the tin with baking paper. In a small bowl over a pan of simmering water, melt the chocolate pieces and the butter. When melted, mix in the vanilla and sugar. Take off the heat.
2) Chop the walnuts finely. In the large bowl, mix the flour, nuts and fruit. Beat in the chocolate mixture.
3) Beat the eggs with the fork and mix into the cake mixture.
4) Pour half the mixture into the tin; bake approximately 15-20 minutes until risen and an inserted skewer comes out clean. Lift the first half onto a tray to cool. Re-line the tin and repeat with the rest of the mixture. If you have two tins of course this becomes less faff-ful.
5) Assembly. When the cakes are cool, put the first half onto a serving plate. Now make the filling:
6) Separate the eggs. Beat the egg yolks and sugar together. Mix in the flours.
7) Heat the milk in the pan; grate in the chocolate like cheese by grating straight off the bar into the milk. Stir to mix.
8) Pour the hot milk over the egg mixture and whisk briskly to mix. Pour back into the pan; heat gently until well thickened, stirring constantly to avoid lumps. Be aware that the custard will continue cooking off the heat, from the heat of the pan.
9) Pour the custard into the small bowl, and press clingfilm over the surface to avoid a skin forming. Let it cool before spreading on the cake.
10) Spread cooled custard over the bottom half of the cake. Cover the surface with raspberries. Dribble any remaining custard over the berries.
11) Whip the cream to stiff peaks. Spread it over the berries. Place the top half of the cake carefully.
12) Put a small amount of icing sugar in a sieve or teastrainer, and scatter over the cake. If you want numbers in it, twist tinfoil into tubes and shape into the numbers. Place carefully on the caketop; scatter the sugar, then remove the foil, leaving gaps behind.
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