My Family Favourite Chocolate Cake |
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Prep Time: 10 Minutes Cook Time: 45 Minutes |
Ready In: 55 Minutes Servings: 8 |
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A super light and fluffy chocolate sponge cake. Ingredients:
8 ounces self raising flour |
8 ounces margarine or 8 ounces butter |
8 ounces sugar (i always reduce the sugar to around 6oz as i don't like things too sweet) |
3 medium eggs |
1 teaspoon baking powder |
3 tablespoons cadburys cocoa powder |
approx. 200ml water |
Directions:
1. Cream the margarine and the sugar until light and fluffy. I personally prefer to lessen the amount of sugar as I don't like things overly sweet but 80z is the original recipe.
2. Whisk the eggs into the sugar/margarine mixture.
3. Slowly add the flour, baking powder and cocoa. Sieve these to avoid lumps (especially in the cocoa).
4. Stir in a figure of 8 fashion. Gradually add enough water to loosen the cake mix up a bit. It should be the consistency of a slightly thin custard.
5. Pour into a non stick cake tin, preferably with loose bottom. I use an 8'' round tin for this cake.
6. Bake on a middle/top shelf in the oven at 180 c for around 45 mins or until a skewer comes out clean.
7. Remove from tin and cool on wire rack. Once cooled, top with chocolate icing, frosting etc or dust with icing sugar and cocoa powder.
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