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Chocolate cake

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(with chocolate icing and strawberries)

Cuisine: desertMain Ingredient: cake

(5, 1) 100% would make again (reviews)

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Ingredients

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Servings          
Original recipe makes 8
1 cake body
50 gcocoa powder
1 tspground cinnamon
225 gself raising flour
225 gunsalted butter
225 gcaster sugar
4 Eggs
1 chocolate icing
20 gcocoa powder
100 gicing sugar
50 gmelted buter
1 tspmilk
4 strawberries; halved to decorate (optional)

Chocolate cake Preparation

cake

1. preheat the oven to 190deg celcius/350farenheit

2. oil and line 8 inch tin

3. cream sugar and butter

4. beat in eggs one at a time

5. sift flour and cocoa powder and fold it into the butter/sugar/egg mix

6. fold in the cinnamon

7. bake for 20-30 or till a skewer comes out clean

8. turn on to a rack to cool

icing

9. sift icing sugar and cocoa powder

10. add in melted butter and mix together

11. when the cake has cooled COMPLETELY even it out by cutting off the top of the cake (esp if it cracked)

12. spread the icing evenly on the top

13. decorate with strawberries

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Calories Per Serving: 899
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the icing measurements may not be exact as i usually do it without measurements. i.e. i put more ingredients based on how it tastes so if you like more chocolate then add more cocoa, if you want it sweeter add more icing sugar etc [I posted this recipe.]
3 years, 5 months, 4 weeks, 8 hours, 53 minutes ago

Tags

  1. Chocolate Desserts
  2. Chocolate
  3. cocoa powder
  4. Cakes
  5. cake
  6. desert

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