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Chocolate birthday cake
Photo: David Holifield

Chocolate birthday cake

12 ingredients 20 min + 25 min Serves 12 openrecipes
Chocolate birthday cake

We used colourful candles rather than artificial sweets to brighten up this tasty birthday cake

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

1088
Calories
46g
Protein
35g
Fat
143g
Carbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients — the other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 7 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Flour 1 cup (125g) all-purpose 455
Chocolate 1 oz (28g) semisweet 155
Milk 1 cup (244ml) whole 149
Butter 1 tbsp (14g) 102
Yogurt 170g plain Greek 100
Egg 1 large egg (50g) 78
Sugar 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated 49
Water not in our table 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • 140g butter , plus extra for the tin
  • 175g golden caster sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 225g self-raising wholemeal flour
  • 50g cocoa powder
  • ¼ tsp bicarbonate of soda
  • 250g natural yogurt
  • 300g golden icing sugar , sieved
  • 2 tbsp cocoa powder , sieved
  • 1 tbsp butter , melted
  • 3-4 tbsp boiling water
  • 50g each white, plain and milk chocolate , broken into squares

Directions

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By bbcgoodfood · Recipe sourced from openrecipes

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