Edmonds Chocolate Cake
A basic no-fail chocolate cake recipe
Simple to make, irresistible to eat. This basic chocolate cake recipe is a chocoholics dream.
Ingredients
- 175 g butter, softened
- 1 ¾ cups sugar
- ½ cup cocoa
- 2 teaspoons Edmonds Baking Powder
- 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
- 3 eggs
- 2 cups Edmonds Standard Grade Flour
- 1 cup milk
Chocolate Icing
- 2 cups icing sugar
- 4 tablespoons water, approximately
- ¼ teaspoon vanilla essence
- 1 tablespoon cocoa
- ¼ teaspoon butter, softened
Method
- Preheat over to 180°C conventional or 160°C fan-forced. Grease and line a 22cm round cake tin.
- Cream butter, vanilla essence and sugar until light and fluffy.
- Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.
- Sift cocoa, flour and baking powder together and add to the creamed mixture alternately with the milk.
- Pour mixture into prepared cake tin and bake for 45 to 55 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.
- Cool in tin for 10 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
Chocolate Icing
- To make the icing, sift the icing sugar and cocoa into a mixing bowl.
- Add butter and sufficient water to mix to a spreadable consistency. Flavour with vanilla essence.
- Spread icing over top of the cooled cake.
