Chocolate cake

There are loads of cakes on the Ampthill market every Thursday, but if you enjoy baking I thought I would share another recipe.

Here is a really excellent chocolate cake recipe, I got it from a free cocoa recipe leaflet years ago and it is in ozs not grammes - like many of my recipes - sorry.








Hot Milk Chocolate Sponge

Makes a 7 inch cake
3 eggs
8 oz Caster Sugar
4 oz Plain Flour
2 tbsps Cocoa
2 tspn baking powder
4 fl oz milk
1 oz Margarine

Chocolate Butter Icing:
3 oz butter softened
8 oz icing sugar
2 tbspn cocoa powder 3 tbspn boiling water, mix and cool

Whisk the eggs and sugar together really well until the mixture is thick and pale.  Sift flour and cocoa and fold into egg mixture.   Heat the milk and margarine together (I do mine in the microwave), make sure all the margarine has melted and the milk is hot. Sprinkle the baking powder on top of the cake mixture.  Then pour on the hot milk on top of the mixture and allow to froth up, fold together. Pour into two 7 inch sandwich tins.

Cook at gas mark 4, 180c or 350f, for about 40 mins, cool on a wire rack.

Mix water and cocoa powder, then beat all ingredients together. This should be enough to fill and top the cake.

I often fill with fresh whipped cream, and just sprinkle icing sugar on the top. 

Make a stencil or use a doily to make a pattern with the icing sugar.  I have also drained a can of crushed pineapple and added to the cream....yum yum. 

Perfect with strawberries or raspberries.