Sunday Chocolate Cake
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Ingredients
- 85g plain chocolate
- 180ml milk
- 85g Butter
- 170g plain flour
- 2tspn baking powder
- 1tspn bicarbonate of soda
- 85g caster sugar
- 1 egg
- Vanilla essence
- 115g butter
- 57g sifted cocoa
- 57g caster sugar
- 57g icing sugar
- 2tbspns double cream
- few drops vanilla essence
Accompaniment
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Description
This was always my favourite cake as a child/teenager, and now is the chosen birthday cake for my children, and generally disappears in minutes.I still love it too!
Method
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grease and line a 21cm straight edged sandwich tin, with a band of greaseproof 2 1/2 cm above the edge.
Break the chocolate into small pieces and put in a small pan with the milk and butter. Heat without boiling, stirring until chocolate is thoroughly blended. Cool for 5 mins.
Sift the flour, baking powder and bicarbonate of soda into a bowl, add sugar. Pour on the chocoalte mixture, add egg and vanilla essence, and beat with a rotary or wire wisk until smooth.
Pour into the prepared tin. Bake at 180dgsC on the middle shelf of the oven for 50-55mins until well risen and firm.
Leave to cool in the tin for5-10mins , Turn out and cool on a wire rack.When quite cold store in an airtight tin for a few days if wished.
Frost the top with the chocolate cream before serving.
To make the chocolate cream, cream the butter and beat in the sifted cocoa, castor sugar and icing sugar. Add a few drops of vanilla essence and beat in the double cream.
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