Name: Chocolate Cake with Icing
Yield: Cuts into 10–12 slices
Ingredients: 180 g(6½ oz) caster (superfine) sugar; 3 eggs, separated; 30 g(1 oz) unsweetened cocoa powder; 50 g(1¾ oz) dark (semi-sweet) chocolate, broken up; 180 g(6½ oz) butter; 125 g(4½ oz/1 cup) plain (all-purpose) flour; 2 generous teaspoons golden syrup; 80 g(2¾ oz) butter, softened; 3 tablespoons milk; 2 tablespoons milk; 60 g(2¼ oz) icing (confectioners’) sugar; 1½ teaspoons baking powder

Preparation info

Cuts into
10–12 slices

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Apples for Jam

By Tessa Kiros

Published 2010

About

This is exactly the kind of chocolate cake I loved as a child. Sometimes I make this just chocolate, sometimes halved and filled with not-too-sweet raspberry or strawberry jam or purée and a few dollops of cream (and then I don’t ice it). If you like, you might also add some chopped nuts in with the flour or scatter some over the top.