Easy chocolate cake
Serves 10
Easy
Total time:
+ cooling
This chocolate fudge cake recipe is super easy and quick to make so it is perfect for when you need to bake a last minute simple yet decadent cake for a special occasion. You don't need to use a chocolate with a high % for this, just standard dark chocolate is fine
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- 150g self-raising flour
- 30g cocoa
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 175g muscovado sugar
- 175g buttersoftened
- 3 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 50g dark chocolatemelted
FUDGE ICING
- 200g buttersoftened
- 200g icing sugar
- 200g dark chocolatemelted
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal646
- fat41g
- carbs68.3g
- fibre1.4g
- protein5.2g
- salt0.97g
Method
step 1
Heat the oven to 180C/fan 170C/gas 4. Line and butter 2 x 20cm sandwich tins.
step 2
Put all cake ingredients into the food processor and whizz until smooth. If the mix is a little stiff, add 1-2 tbsp water and whizz again.
step 3
Divide between tins, level and bake for 20 minutes or until springy. Leave for 5 minutes then cool on a rack.
step 4
Clean the food processor. Whizz the butter and icing sugar, add the chocolate, whizz again, then sandwich and ice the cake.
