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
- 175g butter, softened
- 1 ¾ cups sugar
- ½ cup cocoa
- 2 tsps Edmonds Baking Powder
- 1 tsp vanilla essence
- 3 eggs
- 2 cups Edmonds Standard Grade Flour
- 1 cup milk
Chocolate Icing
- 2 cups icing sugar
- 4 Tbsps water, approximately
- ¼ tsp vanilla essence
- 1 Tbsp cocoa
- ¼ tsp butter, softened
Method
- Preheat over to 160°C fan-forced. Grease and line a 22cm round cake tin.
- Cream the butter, vanilla essence and sugar until light and fluffy.
- Add an egg one at a time, beating well after each addition.
- Sift the cocoa, flour and baking powder together and add to the creamed mixture alternately with the milk.
- Pour mixture into the prepared cake tin and bake for 45-55 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Cool in the tin for 10 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
Chocolate Icing
- Sift the icing sugar and cocoa into a mixing bowl.
- Add the butter and sufficient water to the mix to make it a spreadable consistency. Flavour with vanilla essence.
- Spread icing over the top of the cooled cake.
