Johnny Depp Cake

I went to a Johnny Depp and Jack Daniels Party the other night. It was fun. (The concept of matching initials parties started with Pumpkin Soup and Patrick Swayze).

The JD Party included Jammy Dodger Shooters (yum! Raspberry Liquer and Cream layered in a shot glass), "Johnny Dumplings" (actually chinese dumpling things but you've got to stick to the rules). My contribution was Johnny Depp cake:

It may look like chocolate cake, but it is actually rum and raisin chocolate cake! You may still be confused as to the relation with Johnny Depp, but see:

Rum - Johnny Depp, as Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean was a bit of a fan of the rum

Raisin - He played Gilbert Grape in What's Eating Gilbert Grape, and everyone knows raisins are made from grapes

Chocolate - How could I deny Willy Wonka chocolate? Plus he was in Chocolat (mmm Johnny Depp in chocolate)

If you want to make your very own Johnny Depp cake, the rough recipe I used is as follows (I used one off the internet but ended up changing a few things)

About 100g Raisins or dried fruit, roughly chopped

A good glug of Rum

175g unsalted butter

150g sugar

2 eggs lightly beaten

225g Self Raising Flour

40g cocoa powder

150ml milk

Soak the raisins in the rum for a while (preferably a few hours)

Pre-heat the oven to 180C, grease and line a cake tin

Beat the butter and sugar until light, then gradually beat in the eggs

Fold in the rum and raisins

Sift together the cocoa powder and flour

Fold the flour mix and the milk alternately into the batter

Pour into the tin, smooth the top and bake for about an hour (until a knife comes out clean)

Leave in the tin for 15minutes then turn onto a rack to cool

For chocolate rum icing, melt about 100g dark chocolate, mix in 100g butter until melted

Then add 75g sifted icing sugar and 3tbsp rum

Ice the cake and enjoy:)

I also put chocolate sprinkles on top just because I had some in the cupboard.