So I have a week off work and this is what I do with it. The great big cake experiment. There's this anniversary thing for the forums I frequent and so needed to try. The above is a chocolate mousse cake from "Cakes to Celebrate Love and Life" with some large amendments. Below is the amended versions with some notations. The main aspect would be that it requires a lot more chocolate to make the band but they didn't give that much in the line of instructions for that. Chocolate cake Ingredients: 2 cups sugar 1 3/4 cup plain flour 3/4 cup cocoa 1 1/2 tsp baking powder 1 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda 1 tsp salt 2 eggs 1 cup milk 1/2 cup vegetable oil 2 tsp vanilla essence 1 cup boiling water Method: 1. Gas Mark 4 2. Grease an 8 inch cake tin with a removable base. 3. Mix all the dry ingredients together. 4. Add the wet ingredients aside from the boiling water 5. Mix and then stir in the boiling water till blended. It will be ridiculously wet. 6. Pour into the pan and bake ...