Recipe: Perfect Easy Chocolate Cake

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Easy Chocolate Cake.

You can cook Easy Chocolate Cake using 11 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Easy Chocolate Cake

  1. You need 175 g (6 oz) of margarine or softened butter.
  2. You need 175 g (6 oz) of caster sugar.
  3. Prepare 3 of large eggs.
  4. Prepare 150 g (5 oz) of self-raising flour - sifted.
  5. You need 50 g (1 3/4 oz) of cocoa - sifted.
  6. Prepare 1 tsp of baking powder.
  7. It's 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
  8. It's pinch of salt.
  9. You need of Simple Chocolate Icing:.
  10. It's 100 g (3 1/2 oz) of dark chocolate.
  11. Prepare 100 g (3 1/2 oz) of butter - chopped.

Easy Chocolate Cake step by step

  1. 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..
  2. 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..
  3. 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..
  4. 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..
  5. 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..