Marie-Louise Avery’s Food Photography Portfolio (by Marieloua)
The wind is howling around our cottage in the woods. It has been dark and damp all day. We’re lighting the log burning stove and looking for every little bit of comfort we can find, and my thoughts turned to cake. Not any old cake, but rich gooey chocolate cake from the America’s warm deep south.
Mississippi Mud Cake
● 125 gms margarine or butter
● 200 gms caster sugar
● 2 eggs
● 125 gms self-raising flour
● 2 tblsp cocoa powder
● 3/4 cups milk
● 1/2 cup boiling water
Topping:
● 50 gms sugar
● 50 ml water
● 100 gms plain chocolate, grated
● 70 gms margarine/butter
● 1 tsps vanilla sugar
Beat margarine or butter with the sugar, add the eggs, one at a time, add the flour, cocoa, milk and boiling water. Pour into a greased loaf tin and bake for 20-25 minutes at 200℃
Allow to cool in the tin before making the topping.
Topping:
Heat the sugar and water, add the chocolate gradually and add the margarine or butter. Cool slightly before pouring over all over the cake.
Selection of lifestyle people pics put together as part of pitch to a potential new client
