Thursday 27 April 2006

Granny's Quick Chocolate Cake

Ingredients:

CAKE
4 oz / 125 g soft margarine
4 oz / 125 g castor sugar
3½ oz / 100 g self-raising flour
1 oz / 30 g cocoa powder
2 beaten eggs
½ level teaspoon baking powder can be added if necessary

FILLING & TOPPING (butter icing)
4 oz / 125 g butter
3½ oz / 100 g icing sugar
1 oz / 30 g drinking chocolate powder (e.g. Cadbury's), not cocoa powder
a few drops of vanilla essence
chocolate (dark / milk / buttons &c)

PREPARATION OF CAKE
Cream the margarine, sugar together
Add the eggs and flour / cocoa mixture alternatively
Bake in an 8" / 20 cm round baking tin at 160 C / 320 F for about 25 minutes
When cool, cut cake horizontally and fill with half of the butter icing (see filling & topping).  Spread the other half of the butter icing over the top of the cake and sprinkle with grated chocolate or similar

4 comments:

  1. Please email me a picture of the results of both cakes to pharmolo@aol.com

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  2. Looks delicious. Folds arms and looks away. No...i will not crave chocolate cake...or Mary Macleod's fruit cake which is more my line...much more my line...oh might just sneak another look........

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  3. YUM! I think I'll give it a try! Wish me luck. Thanks for sharing. I love to try new deserts.    Rhonda

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  4. Help!!! I am trying to lose weight and this looks so good!!!!   Eve

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