Easy Chocolate Cake.
You can cook Easy Chocolate Cake using 11 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Easy Chocolate Cake
- Prepare 175 g (6 oz) of margarine or softened butter.
- You need 175 g (6 oz) of caster sugar.
- You need 3 of large eggs.
- It's 150 g (5 oz) of self-raising flour - sifted.
- It's 50 g (1 3/4 oz) of cocoa - sifted.
- It's 1 tsp of baking powder.
- It's 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
- You need pinch of salt.
- It's of Simple Chocolate Icing:.
- It's 100 g (3 1/2 oz) of dark chocolate.
- Prepare 100 g (3 1/2 oz) of butter - chopped.
Easy Chocolate Cake step by step
- Heat the oven to 180°C (gas mark 4). Lightly grease an 18 cm (7 in) round cake tin with a little extra butter or margarine and cut a piece of greaseproof paper or non-stick baking parchment to fit the base of the tin..
- Put all of the ingredients in a large mixing bowl and beat with a wooden spoon or a hand-held mixer for 1 minute or until just combined. It's important not to beat the batter too much - just long enough to make it smooth..
- Pour or spoon the mixture into the tin, smooth the top and bake on the middle shelf of the oven for about 45-50 minutes. The cake is cooked when it looks well risen and golden; the top should spring back when lightly touched with a fingertip. Another test is to insert a skewer into the centre of the cake - it should come out clean..
- Let the cake sit in the tin for 5 minutes, then gently run a knife around the edge and turn the cake out onto a wire rack to cool..
- For the simple chocolate icing, place the dark chocolate and chopped butter in a heatproof bowl and set over a saucepan of very hot water until melted. Cool for 15 minutes, then spread over the top of the cooled cake..