{"id":505,"date":"2014-08-27T08:17:53","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T20:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/?p=505"},"modified":"2016-01-13T12:53:31","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T23:53:31","slug":"the-fantastic-fudge-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/the-fantastic-fudge-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fantastic Fudge Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Food is such a big part of any celebration, and one particular food item that usually makes it onto the menu is cake!\u00a0 So this week\u00a0I thought I would share one of\u00a0my favourite cake recipes with you.\u00a0 As children my sisters and I loved to help mum with the baking.\u00a0 One year we were given a kids recipe book which had this lovely fudge cake recipe in it.\u00a0 It was probably the first cake I ever baked on my own and because it was so easy to make it\u00a0quickly became a family favourite.<\/p>\n<p>There are so many reasons why I love this recipe.\u00a0\u00a0Because this cake has\u00a0no eggs, butter or milk it makes it a very economical cake to make, as well as\u00a0making it a great recipe for\u00a0those\u00a0who are on a dairy free diet.\u00a0\u00a0 I also love the versatility of this recipe.\u00a0 It can easily be baked as\u00a0a Bundt cake, cupcakes or even a fancy birthday cake.\u00a0 Not to mention it makes a\u00a0delicious dessert\u00a0on a cold winter&#8217;s night simply by\u00a0pouring a hot\u00a0chocolate sauce or custard over it while it is still warm.\u00a0 But of course\u00a0the most important reason is that it tastes great!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_506\" style=\"width: 780px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/category\/kids-birthday-parties\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-506\" class=\"wp-image-506 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/img_7379-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Digger Birthday Cake\" width=\"770\" height=\"512\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-506\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I used the fudge cake recipe to make this digger birthday cake.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080; text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Fudge Cake<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ingredients:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 \u00bd cups of Flour<\/li>\n<li>2 Tbspn of Cocoa<\/li>\n<li>1 cup of Sugar<\/li>\n<li>1 cup of Water<\/li>\n<li>6 Tbspn of Oil<\/li>\n<li>1 Tbspn of White Vinegar<\/li>\n<li>1 tsp of Baking Soda<\/li>\n<li>1 tsp of Vanilla<\/li>\n<li>\u00bd tsp of Salt<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Method:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mix flour, sugar, cocoa and water together in a bowl.\u00a0 Add Vanilla, Vinegar, Oil, Baking Soda and salt.\u00a0 Mix together well.\u00a0 Pour into a floured or lined tin and bake in the oven for 35-40 mins at 180C\u00b0 or in the microwave for 6-7mins (cover while cooking) on High.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Variation:<\/strong>\u00a0 Make as cupcakes. \u00be fill Patty Pans and bake for 20-30mins.\u00a0 Makes 12<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Food is such a big part of any celebration, and one particular food item that usually makes it onto the menu is cake!\u00a0 So this week\u00a0I thought I would share one of\u00a0my favourite cake recipes with you.\u00a0 As children my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fabulous-food","category-nadines-favourites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1422,"href":"http:\/\/asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions\/1422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}