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Delicious Eggless Chocolate Cake
Recipe by:
BonnieG
A mouth-watering chocolate cake which is extremely easy and quick to make and could easily be made vegan!
Ready in 40 mins
Saved by 38 cook(s)
Ingredients
Serves: 8
- For the cake:
- 160g flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 130g caster sugar
- 150 ml milk (or soyamilk)
- 60g melted butter (or margarine)
- 1-2 tablespoons cocoa
- For the icing:
- 300g icing sugar
- 1 1/2 tablespoons cocoa
- 2 teapoons vanilla sugar (optional)
- 100g butter (or margarine)
- 3 tablespoons coffee
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Preparation method
Prep: 15 mins | Cook: 25 mins1.
Preheat oven to 200 degrees C/ gas mark 4 and grease a round cake tin (22cm).
2.
For the cake: Mix all the dry ingredients in a bowl. Stir in the melted butter and milk and mix well.
3.
Pour into the greased cake tin and bake for 25 minutes.
4.
Remove and leave to cool on a wire rack.
5.
For the chocolate filling/icing: Mix all the dry ingredients in a bowl. Stir in the butter and coffee and whisk quickly, until smooth.
Tip
This recipe makes a lot of icing so what I do, is I carefully cut the cake in half (horizontally) and put the icing on the bottom half like I'm spreading some butter on a sandwich. I then put the top half back on and use the rest of the icing on top to decorate.
Last updated:
14 Mar 2013
Reviews & comments
Easy
Mine crumbled too, i even added a little bit more flour and a bit of milk to keep it moist!
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21 Jan 2013
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Beautiful cake, It came out quite flat and fell apart a bit even though i had used self raising flour plus the baking powder, however it tastes delicious, and was the perfect solution to my no eggs crisis ! will definately make again, Thanks !
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27 Sep 2012
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the cake is delicious.. I follwed the recipe perfectly..but it did not rise as much as i would have liked.. any suggestions?
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16 May 2012
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Easy
Delicious!
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07 Aug 2010
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