Mum's Easy Chocolate Cake
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Recipe type: Baking
Author: The Cake Mistress
Prep time: 20 mins
Cook time: 50 mins
Total time: 1 hour 10 mins
Serves: 8-12
Easy Chocolate Cake Recipe
Ingredients
  • 1 cup Caster Sugar
  • 1/2 cup (85g) Unsalted Butter, softened
  • 3/4 cup Milk
  • 1 teaspoon Instant Coffee
  • 2 Large Eggs, lightly beaten
  • 1 1/4 cups Self Raising Flour, sifted
  • 1 1/2 tablespoons Cocoa Powder, sifted
  • 1/4 teaspoon Bicarb Soda
  • 1 teaspoon Vanilla
  • BASIC CHOCOLATE ICING:
  • Icing sugar mixture
  • 1 teaspoon Cocoa Powder
  • 2 teaspoons Margarine
  • Water
  • 100s & 1000s to decorate
Directions
  1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius. Grease and line a 20cm round cake tin with baking paper.
  2. Add caster sugar, coffee, flour, cocoa powder and bicarb soda into the bowl of an electric mixer. Add the softened butter, milk, eggs and vanilla, and beat together in electric mixer for three minutes, scraping down the sides of the bowl.
  3. Pour batter in greased cake tin and bake for 45-60 minutes. Cake is done when a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean, and the dome springs back when lightly pressed.
  4. Allow to cool in tin for 10 minutes, then invert onto a wire rack to cool completely.
  5. When cool frost with chocolate icing sugar and 100s & 1000s. To make the icing I just pour around 1 cup  or so of icing sugar into a bowl with the cocoa powder and butter, then trickle in enough water to form a spreadable consistency.
Recipe by The Cake Mistress at https://thecakemistress.com/blog/freerecipes/cakes/chocolate-cake/