Additional Ingredients

150 grams	Chocolate (Silver Spoon Create) ICING, plain 70% cocoa solids
100 ml	Double Cream ICING
3 tbsp	Honey ICING
2 tbsp	Golden Caster Sugar (Billington's) GOLD DUST
1	Earl Grey teabags

How to make Earl Grey Chocolate Fudge Cake

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1. Preheat the oven to 180°C/gas mark 4. To make the cake, place the Earl Grey teabags in a cup and cover with the boiling water. Leave the tea to stew for 5 minutes, then squeeze out the teabags and discard, leaving the really strong tea to cool a little. Grease and line a 20cm spring form cake tin with butter and a disc of greasepoof paper. Place all the cake ingredients, including the tea, into a food processor and blend until you have a smooth batter. Pour the batter into the cake tin and level out the surface. Bake in the oven for 50 minutes until you can stick a metal skewer into the centre and it comes out clean. Leave to cool in its tin, cover with a clean tea towel, for 2 hours.
2. To make the Earl Grey cream, palce the Earl Grey teabags in a small pan and cover with the boiling water. Leave the tea to stew for 5 minutes, then remove the teabags, squeezing out the liquid as you go. Add the sugar to the tea, bring to the boil and boil for 5 minutes or until syrupy. Leave to cool for 10 minutes then whisk into the cream cheese.
3. Slivce the cooled cake in half hozrizontally. Cover the bottom half with the Earl Grey cream, then place the top of the cake back on. Melt the chocolate for teh icing in the microwave for 1 1/2 minutes stirring halfway through. Add the double cream and honey, then pour the chocolate icing over the cake. Using a spatula, gently tease the icing around the edges until the whole cake is iced. It looks beautiful if you draw swirls through it.
4. To make the gold dust, melt the sugar in a small dry frying pan. Once starting to caramelise, empy out the tea bag into the caramel and stir the loose tea leaves through. Take off the heat immediately and pour on to a sheet of greaseproof paper. Leave to cool for 10 minutes, then grind up in a pestle and mortar until it becomes golden and dusty. Sprinkle over the top of the cake and serve.

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