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How to make Cheap & Easy Chocolate Cake
Cake ingredients:
5 oz Self raising flour
1 oz Cocoa
6 oz Sugar (caster, granulated, golden caster all fine)
6 oz Marg (or softened butter)
2 Eggs (medium or large, doesn't matter as you'll weigh
them
-
medium are
cheaper!)
Splash of milk
1 tsp Baking powder
2 oz Dark chocolate (optional but awesome)
1 tsp Coffee granules dissolved in 1tbsp boiling water
(optional but awesome)
1. Preheat the oven for 170C for a fan oven, or 180C if not.
Using a medium sized bowl a
dd the ingredients in this order: self
-
raising flour, cocoa, baking
powder, sugar, marg, eggs, milk. Weigh the eggs, adding milk to make them up to 6 oz.
2. Using an electric whisk, mix it all together, starting on a slow speed (beware getting covered in
flour!) and then increasing the speed. Whisk together for about 2
-
3 minutes, and see the mixture
get paler and smoother in texture.
3. Melt the chocolate in the microwave, for 30 seconds at a time. Stirring in between each
heating. Should take about a mi
nute in total.
4. Mix the coffee granules with boiling/hot water.
5. Fold the coffee into the mixture, followed by the chocolate. (Just make sure you don't add them
together
-
chocolate does not like water, even water with coffee in!) Fold in gently
until the
chocolate is completely mixed in. Don't worry if you end up with some little lumps of chocolate
-
you won't be able to tell once you've baked it.
6. Grease and line two 6" or 7" cake tins with greaseproof paper. Divide the mixture between
them a
nd put into the oven for 25 minutes. After that time if you poke them with a knife, the
knife should come out clean, and then should bounce back if you press with a finger.
7. Leave in the tins for 10 minutes or so, then run a knife around the edge of ea
ch tin and tip the
cake out onto a cooling rack and leave to cool for at least 1 hour.
Icing ingredients:
2 oz Marg/Butter
1.5 oz dark or milk chocolate (You don't need to be exact on this!)
300g (ish) icing sugar
3 tbsp (ish) water
1. Put the m
arg and chocolate into a bowl and microwave for 1 min, checking and stirring after 30
seconds.
2. Once the mixture is melted, add about 100g icing sugar and stir until fully mixed. If the mixture
is very stiff, add some of the water.
3. Continue to add
icing sugar and small amounts (about 1 tbsp at a time) of water, keep beating
in between each addition. Stop once you have the right consistency and texture and once it tastes
great.
4. Spread on top of sponges
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