Mike Van de Elzen: Mike's super moorish chocolate cake

Mike's super moorish chocolate cake 

Cook time: 30-40 minutes 

Prep time: 5 minutes 

Serves: large cake 

100ml vegetable oil  

250ml cream  

1 cup boiling water  

1 tsp vanilla paste 

2 eggs  

1 1/2 cups caster sugar  

Pinch salt  

2 tsp baking soda  

1/2 cup cocoa powder  

1 3/4 cups plain flour

In a large mixing bowl, with a whisk, combine ingredients one at a time starting from the top and working your way down.  

Mix well until all combined (will be quite runny) Pour into a greased and lined 20cm x 30cm tin or cake mould. 

Cook in a pre-heated 170*C oven, for anywhere between 35-45 minutes. 

Check regularly, and skewer test. When it comes out clean, it's good to go.  

Coat it in chocolate ganache or like a Italian meringue and use a blow torch to burn the outside.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Sunday Session podcast with Francesca Rudgin
from News Talks.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Edb our Resident chief Mike Vanders. Alison is with us now,
good morning, Good morning, a big week in your family.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
I was just sitting here yawning, actually going it really
was a big week.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
I'm going to still awaken with us.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
No, just it was ag day this week and at
our local primary school, and it's a big event for
Ymalcu Primary School.

Speaker 4 (00:40):
I think it's it's potential.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
Would be there their number one fundraising because there's a
lot of people. I went yesterday and there must have
been over one thousand, if not two thousand people. There
was a big day.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
But your youngest is leaving, so you're sort of your
finally your connection with the school is ending at the
end of this year. So this is this was your
sort of your last time participating.

Speaker 4 (01:02):
I suppose it's supposed.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
To being a visitor.

Speaker 4 (01:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
I can remember kind of finishing up things and going
you know, I'm ready now, I've done my time, I've
made my contribution to the school. Ready to move on
to the next one.

Speaker 4 (01:18):
Parent.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
There was a lot to do though, Yeah, because ivy
out who's finishing up this year. She told us on
Thursday that she had entered Young Farmer of the Year
competition and I said, oh, that's great Wednesday, it's tomorrow
on Friday, and I was like, what do you need
to do? I need to learn how to put up
an electric fans and hammered and nail and lift a bails.

(01:41):
And it was like ten o'clock at night, we're outside,
it was pitch dark.

Speaker 4 (01:45):
Here I am putting a Johnny electric feds up. Anyway,
how did she go? She did?

Speaker 3 (01:52):
She was she was the only girl that entered, or
the other girl that was in the competition. And she
didn't she didn't win, but she gave it a damn
good try. And what happened is farmers would know this.
You're winding up for electric and sometimes the actual fence
as you're winding goes off the spool and it gets
caught around the handle, and then you've got to spend

(02:13):
the legs half an hour undoing it all so you
can get it back on the spool.

Speaker 4 (02:17):
And that's what happened to her. So, yes, she got
left behind.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
Oh bless and good honor for entering though, And did
you take on some chickens.

Speaker 4 (02:25):
And yes we did. Ours were very sad. All the
rest were sitting in a nice pea straw.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
And they had like little outfits put onto them, and
ours were like just standing in water because they're water thingk.

Speaker 4 (02:36):
It tipped over. All their feed had tipped over pretty
much standing in their own pool. So that was ours.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
So how did the cake competition go?

Speaker 4 (02:44):
Then? Is there some good news here? Is there? Is
we entered the cake competition? Well, I thought we were entering,
but when.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
We got to the school, we were actually judging, not entering,
and so we had to judge all the cakes, and
so our cake got sold, which was great, and it
was a I made a chocolate cake, so it's our
kind of real fast, go to chocolate cake. So I
thought today i'd share that recipand is I took a
photo of it, so if you go online you can
have a look at the photo.

Speaker 4 (03:12):
It's quite. It's quite the cake. It looks beautiful and
it's and it's really fast. It's probably a good cake
to do for.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
Like do this afternoon and then you can feed it
to the kids for in their lunchboxes through the week
because the cake will last a week. So the first
thing to do is preheat your other one hundred and
seventy degrees on fan.

Speaker 4 (03:32):
Bake, and then in a large bowl.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
What you want to do is you want to whisk
one hundred mills, so you pretty much do it in
this order. So go one hundred meals of vegetable oil
and then whisk in two hundred and fifty mills of cream.
Then whisk in one cup of hot water or boiling water,
and then whisk in one teaspoon of vanilla paste, and
then whisk in two eggs, and then go one and
a half cups of caster sugar, and then go a

(03:56):
pinch of salt, and then go tea teaspoons or baking powder,
and then go half a cup of cocoa powder, and
then finally sift in one and three quarters of a
cup plain flour. Mix that all together. It's going to
be a real loose spatter. Pour that into a grease
and I line it as well, just to make it
so much easy to get out. Just line with greasebook

(04:18):
paper about a two thirty centimeter tin or cake mold.

Speaker 4 (04:23):
Pour that in.

Speaker 3 (04:24):
It's really loose, so you can't have one of those
ones where the bottom pops out because it will just
flow out the bottom. So it needs to be a
fully sealed, cakedin fire that into the oven. It's going
to take a while of cook because it is so loose.
About thirty five to forty five minutes, and just keep
checking it. After about thirty five minutes, put a skew
and if it comes out clean, it's good to go.
Pull it out and then let it cool down. And

(04:46):
we codd ours and we made an Italian ring. So
just make up telium rang pipe that on and then
use a blowtorch and just burn that talium ring on.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
Oh sounds delicious.

Speaker 4 (04:57):
It's a really really good fast cake.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
What cake won the competition?

Speaker 4 (05:02):
It was a cake in the shape of a ship. Okay,
so it wasn't It wasn't.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
It was the way it was decorated, not so much
the way it died.

Speaker 4 (05:10):
It was amazing. I would safely say that Noka made
that cake. I love it.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
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