Dark Chocolate Cake

JustJanS's Note:

This recipe comes from The Aust WW's New Cookbook (a very OLD cookbook I own) and is posted by request.

• Total Time: 1 hrs 5 mins
• Prep Time: 0 mins
• Cook Time: 1 hrs 5 mins

Ingredients:

Yield: 1 cake

• 1 ¾ cups self-raising flour
• ½ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• ½ cup cocoa
• 1 ¼ cups sugar
• 125 g butter
• 1 cup milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 eggs

Chocolate Icing

• 1 ½ cups icing sugar
• 2 teaspoons cocoa
• 2 teaspoons butter
• 2 tablespoons water

Directions:

1. Sift dry ingredients into a large bowl; add sugar.
2. Add melted butter gradually, mix well.
3. Add milk and vanilla; beat well.
4. Add lightly-beaten eggs gradually, beating well after each addition.
5. Put mixture into greased and greased-paper lined deep 20cm round cake tin.
6. Bake in a moderate oven 65 minutes or until cooked when tested.
7. Top with Chocolate Icing when cold.
8. Chocolate Icing: Sift together icing sugar and cocoa; mix in melted butter and water; beat until smooth.

Reviews

[KJ]

Lovely chockie cake. I don't know if the cooking time is too long, or it is just my oven, but at 40 mins, the cake was starting to burn.