A chocolate cake!

One of my favourite things is chocolate. I love it so much that as a child I could smell it out (like a bloodhound) and corner my chocoaholic mother into admitting that she had hidden it. However, Chocolate cake has always blighted my baking. It's either too dry, too gritty or just a plain fail.
       Tonight, I have prevailed in my struggle! It all started with a good old fashioned spring-clean. I cleaned out the fridge and low and behold there sat a tub of sour cream. With a best before date of tomorrow. For a moment I flapped not sure what to do, throw it away? Wasteful. Try and find a recipe? Perfect. In these situations I tend to google. I think it has become a comfort thing. So Good ol' Google threw some rubbish at me as it always does and then suddenly it was sitting there in my bookmarks! Nigella Lawsons Good Old Fashioned Chocolate Cake. I had obviously been drooling over it previously and forgotton about it.
        A little bit of kitchen (messy) action, mixed in with some classic rock and I had a flat filled with all the right smells. The offical cake mix tester had declared cake mix success, The cake was in the oven and I was winging it with the icing. All was going brilliantly until I accidently booty shaked my way into the heat knob on the stove!
         I have to tell you that could have been it, Had I not done exactly then same thing with my baked sweet potatoes I would have just left the kitchen. But recently my memory has served me well. A swift temp change and some frantic door opening (to cool oven).
        The cake turned out beautifully I would fully endorse this recipe. The end product is like having a chocolate cloud on your toungue. The recipe is so wonderfully concise and simple that even a kitchen imbicile like me can do it, and do it well. http://www.nigella.com/recipes/view/old-fashioned-chocolate-cake-119

 Sweet Dreams!