Simple chocolate cake

Name: Simple chocolate cake
Ingredients: 15 ml/1 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder, plus extra for dusting; 2.5 ml/½ tsp vanilla extract; 75 g/3 oz/6 tbsp unsalted butter, softened; 175 g/6 oz/1½ cups icing (confectioners’) sugar, plus extra for dusting; 200 g/7 oz/1¾ cups self-raising (self-rising) flour; 15 ml/1 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder; 150 g/5 oz/generous ½ cup light muscovado (brown) sugar; 3 eggs; 45 ml/3 tbsp milk; 115 g/4 oz plain (semisweet) chocolate, broken into pieces; 150 g/5 oz/10 tbsp unsalted butter, softened, plus extra for greasing

Preparation info

Serves
6–8

Difficulty
Easy

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Cakes

By Ann Nicol

Published 2014

About

Make this easy, everyday chocolate cake and fill it with chocolate buttercream for a sweet afternoon treat that will be popular with all the family. Use a good quality chocolate with more than 70 per cent cocoa solids for the best flavour. Store this cake for up to three days.

Ingredients

150 g/5 oz/10 tbsp unsalted butter, softened, plus extra for greasing
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Cake
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/Gas 4. Grease and line two 18cm/7in round shallow cake tins (pans).
Melt the chocolate with the milk in a heatproof bowl set over a pan of simmering water. Cool.
In a bowl, beat the butter with the sugar until