Nigella Lawson's GBBO Advice Transformed My Chocolate Cakes

I’m never going back.

To call myself a Nigella Lawson fan would be like saying Paul Hollywood’s eyes are blue. I am, and they are – but much more so than anyone who’d never witnessed either my baking rants or Paul’s piercing peepers would have ever expected.

I’ve already tried (and written about) her lasagne of love, lemon tuna pasta, Nutella cheesecake, and tiramisu recipes. I’ve even given her “old-fashioned” chocolate cake – which relies on that positively Victorian staple, the blender – a go.

But as it happened, I’d just whipped up her devil’s food cake base the week before one of its techniques showed up in an episode of Great British Bake Off. And having tried it, I strongly recommend the technique.

Add boiling water to cocoa-based cakes

Fat is always quite a delicate thing to manage........

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