College Cuisine: Melting White Chocolate Cake

SERC staff and students are keeping their cookery and baking skills as sharp as their kitchen knives with weekly food recipes designed to tantalise the taste buds.

This week’s recipe shows you how to make your own Melting White Chocolate Cake. The recipe is as follows:

Ingredients (Cuts into 10 slices) 

• 175g white chocolate, broken into squares 
• 75g plain flour
• 75g self-raising flour  
• 175g softened butter or margarine 
• 175g caster sugar
• 3 medium free-range eggs, lightly beaten
• 3 tbsp milk 
• 75g raspberries, thawed if frozen 

 Ingredients (topping) 

• 150ml double cream 
• 75g white chocolate, melted and cooled 
• White chocolate curls (made with a vegetable peeler) 
• Fresh raspberries (to decorate) 

Method:  

1. Preheat oven to 170°C and grease a 900g/2lb loaf tin and base-line with greased greaseproof paper. 
2. Melt 100g of white chocolate in a heatproof bowl set over a pan of gently simmering water. Cool slightly. Chop the remaining chocolate into chunks. 
3. Sift both flours together and set aside. Place the margarine/butter and sugar in a large mixing bowl and, using an electric whisk, beat until pale and creamy. 
4. Gradually beat in the eggs (add 1-2 tbsp of the flour if the mixture starts to curdle), then the melted chocolate. Gently fold in the flours and stir in the milk until the mixture drops easily from the spoon. Fold in the chopped white chocolate and the raspberries. 
5. Spoon the cake mixture into the prepared tin, level the surface. Bake for 1 hour – 1 hour 20 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean. Cover with greaseproof paper after 45 minutes if browning too quickly. Cool in tin for 10 minutes, then carefully turn out on to a cake rack to cool.  
6. To make the topping, whisk the cream until soft peaks form, then carefully fold into the melted chocolate. Spread over the warm or cold cake and decorate with chocolate curls and raspberries to serve. 

These recipes would not be possible without the hard work of SERC’s catering staff, who strive to create excellent meals as well as maintaining a Microsoft Teams page for these recipes to be shared between staff and students. If you are interested in cooking at a professional level, please click here to view our Hospitality and Catering courses.  

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