Dan Lepard's chocolate brandy layer cake recipe

Dan Lepard's chocolate brandy layer cake: get your festive mouth round this little beauty over the holiday period.
A chocolate layer cake for Christmas with a doubly rich gianduja filling.
75g unsalted butter
50g cocoa
125g plain flour
5 large eggs, at room temperature
375g caster sugar
300ml milk
25g cornflour
300g Nutella
100g good milk chocolate, chopped
50ml brandy
150g double cream
100g toasted hazelnuts, chopped

Line the base and sides of a 30cm x 40cm Swiss roll tin with nonstick baking paper, and heat the oven to 180C (160C fan-assisted)/350F/gas mark 4. Melt the butter in a pan, then set aside. Sift half the cocoa and the flour into a bowl. In a clean bowl, beat the eggs until frothy (use an electric whisk). Slowly beat in 175g of sugar, a third at a time, until the mix is thick and the sugar dissolved, then fold in the flour. Fold in the butter, spoon into the tin and bake for 25 minutes. Remove and leave to cool.

Over medium heat, whisk the milk, 25g cocoa, cornflour and 50g sugar in a pan, and bring to a boil. Off the heat, beat in the Nutella and chocolate, and leave to cool. Boil 150g sugar and 50ml water, then add the brandy. Trim the edges off the cake, cut horizontally into three and spoon syrup on each layer. Beat the custard and cream till thick, spread on each layer, sprinkle with nuts, then stack.

1. Summary
This is a recipe, from Dan Lepard, to make a chocolate brandy layer cake. You need a lot of ingredients, including: cocao, milk, Nutella and chopped hazelnuts. The oven has to be at 180C/350F or a gas mark 4. There are two recipes: one for the chocolate cake and one for the chocolate layers. At the end you have to spread the chocolate over the chocolate cake and sprinkle it with the chopped hazelnuts.

2. Why did you choose this text?
I’ve chosen for this text, because at first I really love chocolate! Also I’ve chosen this text, because before I’ve done a lot of news reports so I thought a recipe is something new and different. I love baking too, so that’s why I’ve chosen for this recipe. Maybe I’m going to try this recipe, cause it looks very nice on the picture.

3. Typical examples of vocabulary and style?
If you read these words: ‘heat the oven’, ‘melt the butter’, ‘beat the eggs’, ‘whisk the milk’, etc. you can see this is a recipe. Step-by-step is told how to come to this beautiful chocolate brandy layer cake. So this recipe is in chronological order and is told in a present tense.

4. Type of text
This is a recipe, which belongs to; mass communication. On the site of guardian, everyone can read this recipe and bake this cake.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/dec/19/chocolate-brandy-layer-cake-recipe