Easy Chocolate Cake
Ingredients
- 3 eggs
- 250g (8oz) caster sugar
- 175g (7oz) self raising flour
- 1 tbsp cocoa
- 1 tbsp drinking chocolate
- 2 tsp baking powder
- ½ cup milk
- 2 oz butter
- 1 tsp vanilla essence
- 8oz icing sugar
- 2oz butter
- 2 tbsp carnation condensed milk
- 1 tbsp cocoa
- 1 tbsp drinking chocolate
Accompaniment
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Description
This is an easy chocolate cake recipe that is really light and yummy. It is my mum's special - hot butter milk sponge and is really the best recipe for chocolate cake IMO
Method
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1. Pre heat oven to 180C
2. Grease 2 8 inch round cake tins
3. Beat 3 eggs with caster sugar till thick and fluffy
4. Add teaspoon of vanilla essence
5. Sift the dry ingredients 3 times
6. Put butter and milk in a saucepan and bring to the boil slowly
7. Meanwhile spoon dry ingredients into eggs and sugar mixture.
8. When milk bubbles up pour into cake mixture then pour into cake tins
9. Bake in hot oven for 15 to 20 mins - check cake is cooked by putting knife into cake and it should come out clean.
10. For the icing, mix together all the ingredients and spread between 2 cakes and over the top when the cake has cooled.
Chef's Tips
I decorate the cake with crumbled flake and bashed maltesers
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hi would like to give this recipe a go,it looks yummy,just a question before i do,when you say half a cup of milk,is this a small cup(like with a saucer cup or a normal sized mug? thanks
Gorgeous cake even my husband ate this one,it was so moist and making again today.
Carol this is a lovely recipe - I baked it for my grandson John (Junior) yesterday. It was his birthday (same month as your Oliver) and I am now the "Hero Grandpa" thansk for sharing this well done!
Nice one Carol - you are a good mum!
Ooh so nice, not very good for me though (diabetic), but I just couldn't resist, chocolate cake just doesn't get better than this!!!!