My fave chocolate cake recipe

Hi All,

I keep getting asked for the recipe I use for my chocolate cakes, so I thought it was about time I put in up on the blog...

It's a really nice moist cake, covered with a thick chocolate ganache, and always goes down well.  It's also the easiest baking job and can be done either in a big bowl with a wooden spoon, or by throwing all the ingredients into a food processor and whizzing them.  It's also really versatile, as it's easy to cut and shape, so it can be a nice, unassuming plain cake or an alien bent on destroying all life other than it's own kind! (admittedly, it took a fair few skewers, and not one but four cake tins and a double mix of the recipe)

Ingredients:
1 2/3 cups flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 1/2 cups cocoa
1 tsp salt
2 eggs
2 cups milk
100g melted butter
1 tsp vanilla essence
2 Tbsp golden syrup

Mix all ingredients in your choice of food processor or bowl and spoon
Pour into a greased and lined 20cm cake tin

Bake for 50 minutes at 180 degrees Celcius or until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean.

Icing ingredients:
150gm or more chocolate (king size block of milk chocolate is always good)
75gm butter

Melt together chocolate and butter in a double boiler (or in a bowl on top of a pot of boiling water - bowl not touching the water).  Pour icing over cooled cake.

Enjoy!
Mama Fern