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Taste the green fairy with a flaming absinthe chocolate cake.
Tom and I have birthday's one day apart, so we had a party this weekend. Tom loves chocolate cake and I love absinthe, so I made us an absinthe chocolate cake, complete with sugar cubes which we set on fire, instead of candles.

I adapted one of Nigella Lawson's recipes for a Chocolate Loaf Cake for the base, cut out a most of the water to make it dense and added lots of tasty absinthe.

Posted by Cat Morley from London, United Kingdom • Published See Cat Morley's 1146 projects »
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  • How to bake a chocolate cake. Absinthe Chocolate Cake - Step 1
    Step 1

    Cream together the muscovado sugar and butter. Beat the eggs and then beat in.

  • How to bake a chocolate cake. Absinthe Chocolate Cake - Step 2
    Step 2

    Add the vanilla extract and the absinthe.

  • How to bake a chocolate cake. Absinthe Chocolate Cake - Step 3
    Step 3

    Melt down the chocolate and mix in.

  • How to bake a chocolate cake. Absinthe Chocolate Cake - Step 4
    Step 4

    Mix together the flour and bicarbonate of soda and then add to your batter.

  • How to bake a chocolate cake. Absinthe Chocolate Cake - Step 5
    Step 5

    Boil the water and slowly add to the batter but don't let it get too runny. Stop when the batter is thick but easy to mix.

  • How to bake a chocolate cake. Absinthe Chocolate Cake - Step 6
    Step 6

    We're going to need three tiers for this cake. So grease three baking tins with butter, then cut parchment paper to place on the bottom, butter again and flour.

    This is a really sticky moist cake, so you're going to need all these reinforcements to get them out. Bake for half an hour at 170"C.

    Remove from the oven and leave to cool before gently lifting them out of the baking tins.

  • How to bake a chocolate cake. Absinthe Chocolate Cake - Step 7
    Step 7

    Mix together the marshamallow fluff with another tsp of absinthe in a bowl.

  • How to bake a chocolate cake. Absinthe Chocolate Cake - Step 8
    Step 8

    Add a few drops of green food colouring, so you get a nice absinthe green colour.

  • How to bake a chocolate cake. Absinthe Chocolate Cake - Step 9
    Step 9

    Place one cake tier down and cover with marshmallow fluff, add on a second, cover with marshmallow fluff and add the third on top.

  • How to bake a chocolate cake. Absinthe Chocolate Cake - Step 10
    Step 10

    Now mix together some icing sugar with a small drop of green food colouring in a bowl, until the sugar turns green.

  • How to bake a chocolate cake. Absinthe Chocolate Cake - Step 11
    Step 11

    Place a few drops of icing around the outside edge of the cake (I just used store bought ready-to-squeeze icing but you can make your own) and place a sugar cube on top of each drop.

    If you have an absinthe spoon, lay it down in the center of your cake.

  • How to bake a chocolate cake. Absinthe Chocolate Cake - Step 12
    Step 12

    Place your green icing sugar in a sieve and dust through the spoon on to the cake, so you're left with a dusted eye print.

  • How to bake a chocolate cake. Absinthe Chocolate Cake - Step 13
    Step 13

    To serve, pour absinthe over each absinthe cube and set on fire (be careful with this - the alcohol is really flammable).

  • Step 14

    Here's a video of it on fire, I'd recommend turning out the lights!

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Aconitum
Aconitum · Wallington, England, GB · 9 projects
where do you buy absinthe?? looks fab!
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Burnie McSideburns
Burnie McSideburns · 8 projects
h'omg
*droolface.jpg*
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laura g.
laura g. · Ascoli Piceno, Marche, IT
wow....i must try to do this cake on my own.
it's wonderful Happy
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DarkAshHurts
DarkAshHurts · 119 projects
AWESOME. Was it tasty? lol

I think absinthe's illegal where i live tho. ;(
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Lolly.Bot
Lolly.Bot · Enfield, England, GB
Yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuum

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