How to make chocololate cake:
Quantity |
Ingredients |
| 115g (4oz) |
self raising flour |
| 115g (4oz) |
caster sugar |
| 115g (4oz) |
margarine |
| 2 small bars |
milk chocolate |
| 2 |
eggs |
| 175g (6oz) |
icing sugar |
| 115g (4oz) |
margarine |
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Method
1. Preheat oven to 180c and grease to 7ins cake tins
2. Melt 1 bar of chocolate over a saucepan of boiling water.
3. Put the butter and caster sugar in a bowl and mix to light and fluffy and white in colour.
4. Add the eggs and a little of the flour and mix.
5. Then add the chocolate and the flour a little a time folding in till all as gone.
6. Add the mixture equally between the two tins.
7. Bake for a bout 20 mins.
8. Leave to cool in tins for 10mins then turn out on to a cooling rack to fully cool
9. Melt the rest of the chocolate and mix with the margarine and icing sugar.
10. Put some of the chocolate butter icing on one of the cakes and then sandwich together.
11. With the rest spread over the top and sides of the cake then leave to set. You could decorate with chocolate sprinkles if like.
Thanks to
Michaela Fagg from the United Kingdom for submitting this chocololate cake recipe.
Added on
11 October 2007.
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