Chocolate treats

I've taken these from my other blog

Chocolate cake (makes 2 cakes)

CAKE:
½ lb unsalted butter
2 cups sugar
2 large eggs
½ cup sour cream
2 cups sifted self-raising flour
3-6oz dark chocolate
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup black coffee

ICING:
4oz dark chocolate
4 cups icing sugar
Milk
1 tbsp vanilla extract

1. Preheat oven to 350F / 180C / Gas mark 4
2. Grease cake tin
3. Melt chocolate and cool until tepid
4. Cream butter and sugar
5. Add sour cream, eggs & choc and beat until smooth
6. Add flour in small amounts, mix until smooth
7. Over the bowl, add baking powder to coffee (it fizzes) then add to bowl, mix until smooth
8. Bake for 30 mins, until mixture pulls away from the side. Do not open the oven until the last 5 mins
9. Cool on wire rack
10. Beat together all icing ingredients. Ice cake.

Gravity-field chocolate torte

For grown-ups only

Smash up a packet of Maryland hazelnut cookies (or cookie of your choice). Melt some butter and mix with the biscuit crumbs, then press this into the bottom of a 8 inch springform tin. Put in the fridge.

Melt 3 bars of Lindt 70% cocoa dark chocolate and a good chunk of butter in a bowl over boiling water. Allow to cool slightly before adding a small pot of double cream and two beaten egg yolks. Fold together and don't think about the calories

Pour chocolate mixture over hardened biscuit base and chill in the fridge. Dust with cocoa powder and cut into slices with a warmed knife.

As a variation you could add a white chocolate layer - 2 bars of Lindt white chocolate, butter, double cream and vanilla extract.

Sookies

Also known as chocolate tiffin.

This is a recipe which has been hanging around, hand written in my Mum's cookbook, for as long as I remember. I could have come from Blue Peter.

5oz digestive biscuits, crushed, but not to a fine powder. Leave some lumps.
4oz chocolate (my recipe actually says plain cooking chocolate, but I'd be dubious)
1tbsp sultanas
1oz butter
1tbsp golden syrup

Melt the butter and syrup until frothy, then remove from the heat and add the chocolate. Stir until it melts. Add the biscuits and sultanas and mix well. Put into paper cases or press into a (greased) baking tray. Leave in fridge for half an hour.