Rich Chocolate Cake

JustJanS's Note:

This Chocolate cake from Aust. Women's Weekly Cookbook-Cakes and Slices-is posted in response to a request.

• Total Time: 1 hrs 30 mins
• Prep Time: 0 mins
• Cook Time: 1 hrs 30 mins

Ingredients:

Yield: 1 cake

• 185 g butter
• 2 teaspoons vanilla essence
• 1 3/4 cups caster sugar (250mlcup)
• 3 eggs
• 2 cups self-raising flour
• 2/3 cup cocoa
• 1 cup water

CHOCOLATE ICING

• 90 g dark chocolate, chopped
• 30 g butter
• 1 cup icing sugar
• 2 tablespoons hot water, approximately

Directions:

1. Grease and line a deep 23cm round cake pan.
2. Combine butter, essence, sugar, eggs, sifted flour, cocoa and water in a large bowl and beat on low speed with electric mixer until ingredients are combined.
3. Increase speed to medium, and beat for about 3 minutes or until mixture is smooth and changed in colour.
4. Spread into prepared pan.
5. Bake in a moderate oven for about 1 1/2 hours.
6. Stand 5 minutes before turning on to wire rack to cool.
7. Spread cold cake with icing.
8. Chocolate Icing: Melt chocolate and butter in bowl over hot water, gradually stir in sifted icing sugar, then stir in enough hot water to mix to a spreadable consistency.

Reviews

[fawn512]

use this frosting for #2496 cake was in 2 (8x8) square pan. and this frosting was just enough to have a thin coating on top. I use around 1 1/2 T of water, i'm not sure of the right consistency of the frosting though. UPDATE: doubled the recipe and added 1/2 T corn syrup for added gloss, use around 3 1/2 T hot water, and it was just perfect to layer 2 (8x8) square pan

[evelyn/athens]

Very nice. Simple, not too large chocolate cake. We ate it up and it went down especially well with glasses of cold milk.