Chocolate Cake
For my very first recipe in this book, I felt it was only fair that I would use my first recipe that I made. A simple Chocolate Cake.
Ingredients
· 1 Cup of Self-Raising Flour
· 125g of Butter
· 1 1/3 Cups of Brown Sugar
· ¾ Cup of Milk
· ½ Cup Cocoa Powder
· 3 Eggs (TIP: crack the eggs into a cup before putting them into a bowl to make sure they aren’t rotten. You can’t always tell by the smell)
· 1 Tablespoon of Bicarbonate of Soda
Method
Although You may think that just knowing the ingredients then chucking them in a bowl, mixing them together and then baking them into a cake, that isn’t always the way. The method actually has a purpose.
- Turn the oven to 180° & grease the pan/ tin with oil then line it with baking paper.
- Combine all the ingredients and mix them with electrical beater on low for 2 minutes then high for 1min.
- Pour the mixture into the pan/tin. Try to get as much of the mixture as possible. TIP: hold the bowl close to you with one hand and use the spatula to scrape around the sides of the bowl to get as much mixture as possible.
- Bake for 40-45minutes.
- Leave the cake in the pan/tin for 10 minutes before taking it out and icing it.
Icing J
· 195g 1 1/4 cups Pure Icing Sugar
· 1 Tablespoons of Cocoa powder
· 2 Tablespoons of Butter, at room temperature
· 1 Tablespoons of Boiling Water (For thicker icing, add less water. For runnier, add more water)
Icing is pretty simple. Either you like it runny or you like it thick.
- Mix all the ingredients together
- Spread on top of your cake (TIP: Use a spatula when spreading the icing)
Hope you enjoyed your Chocolate Cake J