Cooks' Corner

[maggiepie]

My mother used to make the best chocolate cake I have ever tasted.
She lost the recipe and unfortunately, I had never copied it out for myself.
I have searched the internet to no avail.

This chocolate cake was a winner of a competition in Women's Weekly or some other magazine, sometime in the 50's.The competition was to celebrate  Queen Elizabeth's coronation or visit to Australia, not sure which but  could have Queen or Elizabeth or both in the name.

The cake was very moist, buttery and used boiling water.
It also used cocoa.

Not much to go on but would be very grateful if someone has this recipe tucked away.

[annew]

There's this one http://www.goodtoknow.co.uk/recipes/495862/mary-berry-s-chocolate-cake
Mary Berry has been doing recipes for decades, so it could be one of hers.

[maggiepie]

Anne, thanks for the link.
It looks good but there was no jam used for this cake and it was cooked in a rectangular cake pan.

My mother used to make a mock cream for the top which was just sugar and butter beaten until it went white.
I can only imagine how many calories were in the topping but it was soooo good.

[Lesley Cox]

I don't know that cake Helen but I do recall reading in a paper or somewhere at a similar kind of time, maybe a trip to Aus/NZ or something, or tenth anniv, the recipe for a date cake, said to be the only cake the Queen herself ever made. How true that was, or if she EVER makes a cake, who knows?

[maggiepie]

Lesley, am sure she must have made cakes, trying to visualise her in an apron!!!

[Lesley Cox]

I'm trying to visualise an apron suitable for wearing with a diamond tiara.

[Gunilla]

Lesley, I tried your Ginger Shortbread recipe yesterday. Mmmm....delicious. Found out this morning that there was nothing left of it so I guess the rest of my family liked it too  .

[Maggi Young]

Lesley, I tried your Ginger Shortbread recipe yesterday. Mmmm....delicious. Found out this morning that there was nothing left of it so I guess the rest of my family liked it too  .

Wow, Gunilla, you're right, the "Family Test" is conclusive that the recipe was good! 

[Maggi Young]

I'm trying to visualise an apron suitable for wearing with a diamond tiara.

Since you ask........

[Lesley Cox]

I knew you wouldn't fail me Maggi.

[David Nicholson]

Not an expert of course but I do wonder if HMQ could cope with the union jack type as pictured. I thought she'd be more of a Bridget Jones type

[maggiepie]

Better watch out, David.
You might end up in the tower!!

[johnw]

Better watch out, David.
You might end up in the tower!!

Along with Margaret of Scotland....

johnw

[Anthony Darby]

What a thing to say about Maggi!

[Lesley Cox]

What? ending up in a tower? I don't know. The sainted Margaret would have been a most interesting woman to speak with, though I think it a great shame she was so determined to introduce Catholicism to Scotland on a grand scale and totally suppress the old Celtic church. Their way of living seems to me to have had more of tolerance and real love about it than that of the Roman and thoroughly corrupt and greedy church of the time, (and for centuries to come).

If I were a more skilled cook (to return to topic) I'd make our Maggi one of those magnificent towers composed of profiteroles filled with chocolate cream, doused in choc sauce and wrapped around with spun toffee.