Chocolate Cake Recipe!

Lately I've been building up my baking and cooking skills and the next on the list is a nice easy Chocolate cake recipe! 
This is also one of those recipes where, you weigh all the ingredients and just simply bang them all into a bowl and ta-da! 
Yep, that simple.

Ingrediants:
225g/8oz Plain flour
350g/12&half oz Caster sugar
85g/3oz Cocoa Powder.
1 and half t-spoon Baking Powder
1 and Half t-spoon of Bicarbonate of Soda
2 Free-range eggs
250ml/9fl oz Milk
125ml/4 and half oz Vegatable Oil
2 tsp Vanilla Extract
250ml/9fl oz Boiling water.

For the chocolate Icing.
200g/7oz Plain Chocolate 
200ml/7fl oz double cream.

Preparation Method. 

1. Preheat the oven to 180OC/350F/Gas 4. Grease and line two 20cm/8in sandwich tins.

2. For the cake, place all of the cake ingredients, except the boiling water, into a large mixing bowl. Using a wooden spoon, or electric whisk, beat the mixture until smooth and well combined.

3. Add the boiling water to the mixture, a little at a time, until smooth. (The cake mixture will now be very liquid)

4. Divide the cake batter between the sandwich tins and bake in the oven for 25-35 minutes or until the top is firm to the touch and a skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean.

5. Remove the cakes from the oven and allow to cool completely, still in their tins, before icing.

6. For the chocolate icing, heat the chocolate and cream in a saucepan over a low heat until the chocolate melts. Remove the pan from the heat and whisk the mixture until smooth, glossy and thickened. Set aside to cool for 1-2 hours, or until thick enough to spread over the cake.

7. To assemble the cake, run a round bladed knife around the inside of the cake tins to loosen the cakes. Carefully remove the cakes from the tins.

8. Spread a little chocolate icing over the top of one of the chocolate cakes, then careful top the other cake.

9. Transfer the cake to a serving plate and ice the cake all over with the chocolate icing, using a palette knife.

And there you have it. Rather simple, yet very elegant and of course, yummy!

It's a little different to other recipes but because of this, I was very curious! If you give it a go, let me know in the comments below :D

R x