Week Two – Hazel’s Chocolate Chip Birthday Cake

My second new recipe of the year was made yesterday and was a birthday cake for a friend. I’m more of a cook than a baker, so haven’t really made too many cakes before. I wasn’t entirely sure what sort of cake I wanted to do, and after flicking through a birthday cake book I still hadn’t been inspired. I had an idea in my head that a chocolate chip style cake might be nice, and managed to find a recipe I liked the sound of through Google to use as a starting point.

I made two chocolate sponges, with white chocolate button chips, following the recipe, and then decided to add some vanilla butter cream icing in between the sponges. On the top I melted some more chocolate and decorated it with some smarties.

The cake was eaten at Hazel’s birthday night out last night, and seemed to go down well.