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Hi, I’m not sure what’s going wrong…. I’ve followed the instructions carefully, but Pauls’ chocolate cake just doesn’t seem to turn out right. The top is too hard and it just crumbles, tried to carve it and it just caved in! Also Paul’s cake looks as if it has more height.

I had a similar problem when I hadn’t quite melted the chocolate etc thoroughly.

I have baked the cake several times for the bear , and I had exactly the same problems. Plus the bear collapses…..

I have just tried it for the first time and I have had the same problem too, I thought it was just something I didn’t do right.

Hi Faye28

Just wondered whether you had a chance to read through the comments in the popular questions section ‘Paul’s moist chocolate cake’ – My feed back. Also ‘Paul’s moist chocolate cake – timings’. There is a very good answer here too http://www.cakeflix.com/questions/pauls-moist-chocolate-cake-complete-disaster-help. There are lots of helpful tips from other members who have successfully baked the recipe which I feel you will all find useful. If you decide to bake the cake again your feed back would be much appreciated. There is an alternative recipe here if you’d like to try it http://www.cakeflix.com/blog/how-to-make-chocolate-.mud-cake.