My other half’s favourite cake has always been chocolate cake ever since childhood. However I haven’t tended to make it very often, as his mum used to make one and bring it on every visit. But as an afternoon tea treat, I decided I would make him one. Unfortunately I seem to have lost my grandma’s Devil’s Food Cake recipe which was the delicious version I always used to bake as a teenager and none of the recipes I see online are quite how I remember it. So instead I have opted to bake a plainer chocolate sponge cake, which my other half will probably prefer as he doesn’t like very much icing, which the Devil’s Food Cake would have had lots of.
Chocolate Cake
Ingredients
150g margarine
150g light brown sugar
2 large eggs
150g self raising flour
1 tsp baking powder
2 tbsp cocoa powder
milk to mix250g icing sugar
100g butter
50g cocoa powder
Method
Preheat fan oven to 160 deg C.
Grease and line a 20cm round cake tin.
Cream together margarine and brown sugar.
Beat in the eggs.
Sieve and fold in the 2 tbsp cocoa.
Sieve and fold in the flour.
Add sufficient milk to give a dropping consistency.
Spoon mixture into prepared cake tin.
Cook on middle shelf of preheated oven for about 25-30 minutes until a skewer comes out clean.
Allow to cool.
Turn out of tin.Allow butter to soften at room temperature.
Cream butter in a bowl.
Sieve in the icing sugar gradually, mixing as you go along.
Sieve in the 50g cocoa.
Mix together until smooth.
Spread over the top of the cake.
Serve and enjoy.
As mentioned my other half doesn’t like too much icing but if you prefer you can make a larger quantity and slice the cake in half and fill with the additional icing. That would be my personal preference for my sweet tooth.
His verdict. A very tasty cake. Thumbs up.
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Disclosure. This post is my entry to the Great Denby Cake Off Competition.
A one for the weekend!
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Any day for us
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This looks lovely. We are all big fans of chocolate cake here.
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Thank you. Yes chocolate cake is always popular here
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Just the treat
Hope mine comes out as good as yours
16th birthday party tonight
My neice will hopefully be impressed with my efforts
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Chocolate cake is always a winner. Happy Birthday to your niece
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oooh thank you! yummy x
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Gorgeous! I never usually bother using any kind of brown sugar in cake, but I should do it more often because it really does add something, I think.
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I also like that brown sugar is less refined than white
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That looks delicious, chocolate cake is my favourite too
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Thank you. yes always popular
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If I have a choice of chocolate cake or any dessert whatsoever, I’d take the cake!! And this does sound so perfect, I love a lot of icing, but I feel much better about having a giant piece if there isn’t too much icing.
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yes I sometimes find that the very pretty cupcakes with loads of swirly icing is just too much icing for me
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Yum looks delicious!
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Thank you 🙂
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That looks yummy! me and hubby are not big fans of icing so this is great x
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yes cupcakes with icing piped as high as the cake again are very pretty but too sweet for the cake:icing ratio
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That looks a great recipe and with only 2 eggs ! I will try this
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yes it uses milk to compensate for the lack of a third egg
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Good luck on the cake competition!! It looks so amazing, you did a great job!
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Thank you. It is the second year I’ve entered. Last time I did Butternut Squash Muffins which wasn’t a winning entry so fingers crossed this time
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