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
Method
Prep:15min ›
Cook:25min ›
Ready in:40min
- Preheat oven to 200 degrees C/ gas mark 4 and grease a round cake tin (22cm).
- For the cake: Mix all the dry ingredients in a bowl. Stir in the melted butter and milk and mix well.
- Pour into the greased cake tin and bake for 25 minutes.
- Remove and leave to cool on a wire rack.
- 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.
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Reviews & ratings
Average global rating:
(10)
Reviews in English (8)
the cake is delicious.. I follwed the recipe perfectly..but it did not rise as much as i would have liked.. any suggestions? - 16 May 2012
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 ! - 27 Sep 2012
Delicious! - 07 Aug 2010