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

·         2 Tablespoons of Plain 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.

1. Turn the oven to 180° & grease the pan/ tin with oil then line it with baking paper.
2. Combine all the ingredients and mix them with electrical beater on low for 2 minutes then high for 1min.
3. 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.
4. Bake for 40-45minutes.
5. 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. 

1. Mix all the ingredients together
2. Spread on top of your cake (TIP: Use a spatula when spreading the icing)

Hope you enjoyed your Chocolate Cake J