I've been sitting on this recipe for a little while and have only got around to posting it now. I had it planned to publish it after my gender reveal post as this is the cake I made for the party. However, five weeks later I am only sitting down now to write about it and share it with you. The kids have been sick - thanks, winter! My morning sickness seems to have returned - thanks, baby and life just got a little hectic! I bet some of you guys are feeling this way too. Why is it that winter always seems so difficult?

I'm sorry for keeping this, Oh So Decadent Boozy Chocolate Sultana Cake from you for so long. My fingers need to be slapped because you guys are missing out on some seriously good chocolate cake. This cake is a bit reminiscent of a fruit cake filled with plump boozy sultana's with a hint of spice and drizzled with some seriously chocolatey goodness. Just look at that drizzle action happening below. Oh, my!

Oh, the shimmer and glisten of freshly poured chocolate ganache! I made this ganache using coconut cream and a really good quality 70% dark chocolate making it dairy free. Perfect for those with allergies that don't want to miss out on a cake like this. This cake is a fantastic celebration cake that is perfect to make the day before. In fact, I would recommend making it the day before to let the flavours infuse because the cake tasted so much better the next day and somehow it became more moist and moreish. I think the plump raisins do their job and slowly infuse the cake and create the fine, tender crumb the next day.

Once the ganache has drizzled it's goodness all over the cake, you must finish the whole thing off with a beautiful smattering of grated chocolate over the whole cake and that is what I called perfection! This cake made a great centrepiece for our gender reveal party back in June. Along with our friends and family, we not only enjoyed finding out the sex of our baby but we all indulged in pieces of this amazing cake. It went down a treat.

Now I made my cake in a bundt tin, I don't think that is a prerequisite for making this cake, but it does create a pretty spectacular finished result. If you don't own a bundt tin, a 20cm ring tin will suffice as would a standard 20cm plain cake tin. Whatever you have in your repertoire of cake tins at home.