Devils Food Cake
Ingredients
- 125g butter
- 125g caster sugar
- 125g light brown sugar
- 225g plain flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 2 tsp vanilla essence
- 2 eggs
- 50g cocoa powder
- 250ml boiling water
- 125g butter
- 2 tbsp Cocoa powder
- 250g icing sugar
Accompaniment
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Description
A chocolatey birthday cake for my oldest boy Oliver who is 17 today 14 July 2013
Method
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1. Preheat the oven 180c
2. Grease 2 sandwich cake tins - i put butter on the tins and the sprinkle a bit of flour on top and shake the tins so the flour sticks to the butter and is lightly covered all over
3. Mix the butter and caster sugar together and then mix in the light brown sugar and whisk well.
4. Measure into a bowl the flour and mix in the baking powder and the bicarb.
5. Add the vanilla to sugar mixture then mix in 1 egg, half the flour spoonful at a time. Then add in the next egg and the rest of the flour.
6. Mix the cocoa with the boiling water and pour that into the cake mixture.
7. Make sure it is all mixed in thoroughly and then pour into the 2 cake tins evenly.
8. Bake for 30 -40 mins - test that the cake is cooked through
For the icing
You can either compliment the chocolate with cream cheese icing or make chocolate butter cream icing - I havent decided yet which one we will do today as I am typing this while the cake is baking!
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