HApPy dAyS CHCOLATE CAKE AND A PRINT GIVEAWAY

This giveaway is closed today 27th August 2010.Thank you so much to those who participated.

The winner of my Print Giveaway by Brochures Printing Online (by random.org) is........number 18 (I still can't figure out a way to copy and paste the winning number).

Chisum's Crew you're the winner :-)!!!

If you're running a business I'm sure you would have thought of  brochure printing to promote your products or services.

Brochures Printing Online is a company that prints brochures designed to your exact specifications. They help you to create custom brochures and their team of design experts will help check and ensure the quality of your prints before sending them off to their printers. 

"We print your brochures using digital or offset process to make sure that you have the best quality at the best price available." 

Click on the image below to learn more.

And this is the giveaway Brochures Printing Online is offering to one of my lucky readers ~

100 8.5x11 Trifold Brochures   
100lb Paper Gloss   
Trifold/Letterfold, Z-fold   
4 Color Both Sides Printing  
It's limited to US residents 18 years and above.      

Just leave a comment and the winner will be picked using random.org. 

 If you would like to try for an extra entry please visit Brochure Printing Online and leave a comment telling me which item would be most suitable to your needs. 

If you would like to top it with 2 more entries post about this on your blog and/or facebook it and leave me the link/links. 

This giveaway will be opened until the 25th of August 2010. I will announce the winner on the 26th of August 2010.

Good luck and Happy Days!

But far, far away from the land of digital and offset processes I did my own printing ~In cake. It was for N and R's birthdays. They were born on the same day 4 years apart.

I used silicone word moulds sold online at SiliconeMoulds.com. Moulds that were designed by a dear blogger friend Sarah Jane. You must visit her lovely blog, siliconemoulds.blogspot.

Silicone moulds is an online store that sells silicone bakeware moulds for cakes, jellies, chocolate, soap and many other uses and is the only store, online or otherwise, that sells silicone word moulds.

The only decoration I did was a dusting of icing sugar over a piece of plastic grid to get the grid effect.

When you're happy and you know it clap your hands. Happy birthdays to our dearest N and R.

  
                             HApPy dAyS CaKe

The cake I made is one from my favourite cake 'chemist', Rose Levy Beranbaum. Her recipes have never failed me and this chocolate cake is as good as it gets. Fudgy, chocolaty and never too sweet.   

The recipe ~Rose Levy Beraabaum's

85 gm cocoa powder
1 1/2 cups boiling water3 large eggs (150 gm without shells)
vanilla extract
300 gm plain flour
434 gm light brown sugar
2 1/4 tsp baking powder
3/4 tsp baking soda
3/4 tsp salt227 gm unsalted butter

Preheat oven to 170 C.

Grease and flour 2 9" round cake pans.


Whisk cocoa and boiling water until smooth. Cool to room temperature. 

In another bowl combine egg and 1/4 of the cocoa mixture.


In another bowl combine dry ingredients and mix on low for 30 seconds. Add butter and remaining cocoa mixture. Increase speed to medium and beat for 1 1/2 minutes. Add egg/cocoa mixture in 3 batches and beat for 30 seconds each time. 


Pour into pans and bake for 20-30 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean.

For these moulds I had only to make one recipe of this cake and pour the batter slightly more than half way up the sides of the moulds. When baked leave to cool completely in the moulds before turning out. 


Tips ~ Before turning the cakes out pull the sides of the mould away from the sides of the cakes, gently, to loosen them up. The cakes will then literally fall out of the moulds when you turn it out. 


Turn the cakes the right side up and slice off the mounds to level the cake and then turn them over again so that the bottoms are facing upwards and are displayed as the top of the cakes. Decorate as you desire.

If you're using silicone moulds do go to my CAKE post for further tips on using silicone moulds.