Home > Useful Bits > Recipes > Christmas Pudding Chocolate Cake Christmas Pudding Chocolate Cake Ingredients For the cake 300g butter (room temperature) 200g caster sugar 225g soft light brown sugar 3 eggs 1 tsp vanilla extract 350g plain flour 2 tsp baking powder 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda 100g cocoa 1500ml buttermilk 150ml boiling water To decorate 500g ready-to-roll chocolate icing 500g ready-to-roll white icing 100g ready-to-roll green icing 100g ready-to-roll red icing Method For the cake Preheat oven to 160°c Mix butter, caster sugar and brown sugar in a large mixing bowl until creamed. Slowly mix in the eggs and vanilla extract. Sift in the flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda and cocoa, stir for a couple of minutes before adding the buttermilk and boiling water and mixing well. Transfer mixture into Master Class Silver Anodised 20cm Hemisphere Cake Pan and bake for 45 minutes to an hour or until a cake tester comes out clean. Cool completely on a wire rack before decorating. To decorate Roll out chocolate icing to approx. 35cm diameter. Carefully lift the icing and place over the cake, smooth down using an icing smoother from the top downwards trimming away any excess. Roll out white icing and cut into approx. 7 – 10cm strips, place the strips over the cake starting at the top as if to look like cream running down the cake. Roll out green icing and using the Holly Fondant Plunger Cutters cut out holly leaves and place on top of the cake where the white strips meet. Finally take small pieces of red icing and roll into small balls, place onto of the fondant holly leaves. Products used Home Made Traditional Stoneware 31cm Mixing Bowl Kitchen Craft Beech Wood 30cm Spoon Kitchen Craft Stainless Steel 20cm Round Sieve Kitchen Craft Stainless Steel Eleven Wire 30cm Balloon Whisk Master Class Non-Stick 46cm x 26cm Cooling Tray Sweetly Does It Small Non-Stick Rolling Pin Sweetly Does It Icing Smoother Sweetly Does It Set of 2 Holly Fondant Plunger Cutters Print this recipe Back to all recipes More Sweet recipes... Chocolate Heart Ganache Cake Roasted Peaches with Cinnamon, Vanilla, and Honey Sphere rose cake Prinsesstårta (Princess Cake) Chocolate Fondue CHRISTMAS EGGNOG LOAF Profiteroles Raspberry Cupcakes Pavlova 3 Tiered Wedding Cake Battenberg Cake Makes 2 cakes Apple Pie Banana Bread Pannacotta Scandinavian cookies Carrot Cake Granola Bars Fudge Oatmeal Bars Orange and Hazelnut Muffins Almond and Orange Smoothie Marbled mug cake Chocolate Fudge Cake Raspberry Marshmallows Fruity Ice Lollipops Pin Wheel Cookies Fruit Flan Jammie Dodgers Almond & Raspberry Bundt Cake The Naked Cake Canalés Making Biscuits Using The Biscuit Press Iced Glamour Biscuits Pecan Pie Traditional æbleskiver Mother's Day Cupcake Bouquet Double Chocolate Brownies Cherry Pie Serves 8 Hidden Heart Cake Apple, Walnut and Cinnamon Dessert Jar Serves 1 Sticky Toffee Banana Pancakes Serves 4 Layered Cake with Macaroons Chocolate Éclairs Makes 12 Éclairs Chocolate Tarts Makes 6 Tarts Blueberry Friands Makes 12 Friands Lemon Drizzle Cake Make and pipe Buttercream icing Carrot & Cream Cheese Cupcakes Makes 12 cupcakes Double Choc Chip Cookies Makes approx. 20 cookies Basic Cake Pops (Makes 20 Pops) Using cake pop mould Old Fashioned Doughnuts With our pancake and doughnut dispenser Giant Cupcake Using our jumbo cupcake baking tin Basic Cookies Makes approx. 14 cookies Useful Guides About Us Help & FAQs Our Story Product Care & Use Brands Product User Videos News & Blog Product Help & Feedback Awards Helpful Links Contact Terms & Conditions Become a Stockist Terms of Use International Sales Privacy & Cookies Contact Us Sitemap Company Statement Join Our Newsletter More about newsletter signup Enter your email address... Subscribe Lifetime Brands Europe Limited, KitchenCraft, The Hub, Nobel Way, Birmingham, B6 7EU © 2021 KitchenCraft. eCommerce by blubolt..