Easy Peasy Chocolate Cake
This chocolate sponge cake can be thrown together pretty fast. Serve dusted with icing sugar, drizzled with melted chocolate or frosted with chocolate ganache.
Ingredients
Serves: 10
- 200g caster sugar
- 125g self-raising flour
- 2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 125ml milk
- 75g butter, melted
Method
Prep:15min ›
Cook:45min ›
Ready in:1hr
- Preheat oven to 180 C / Gas 4. Grease a cake tin.
- Put all dry ingredients in a bowl and mix well.
- Add eggs, vanilla extract and milk, mix well. Add melted butter and stir for a few minutes.
- Pour batter into cake tin. Bake in preheated oven for about 45 minutes. The cake is done when a skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean.
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I'm new to baking, and would love to try this recipe if only I knew the size of cake tin to use - 13 Jul 2012
This cake is amazing, I put a little chocolate butter cream on it, its so very noist. - 07 Apr 2012
This cake is so easy to make and turns out lovely. I put some choc fudge icing and hundreds and thousands on the top and it went down very well. This will definitely be a family favourite!!!!!. Thank you - 03 Aug 2012