Quick chocolate cake

Name: Quick chocolate cake
Cuisine: Northern Europe
Ingredients: 4 tablespoons cocoa; 2 eggs; 75 ml (3 fl oz) milk; 250 g (9 oz) self-raising flour; pinch of salt; 6 tablespoons boiling water; 75 g (3 oz) fresh butter, softened to room temperature; 2 drops vanilla essence; 50 g (2 oz) plain or bitter chocolate; 50 g (2 oz) plain or bitter chocolate; 50 g (2 oz) plain or bitter chocolate; 15 g (½ oz) butter; 15 g (½ oz) butter; 1 tablespoon water; 1 tablespoon water; 100 g (4 oz) icing sugar; 100 g (4 oz) icing sugar; 100 g (4 oz) icing sugar

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

British Cooking

By Caroline Conran

Published 1978

About

One of the favourite cakes

Ingredients

175 g (6 oz) sugar
4 tablespoons cocoa

Europe
United Kingdom
Cake
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven to 190°C, 375°F, Gas Mark 5 and grease 2 18-cm (7-in) sandwich tins, then line them with a disc of greaseproof paper, greased and floured.

Put the ingredients into a bowl, in the order given, sifting the sugar and cocoa together, adding the melted butter and eg