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Simple Chocolate Cake Recipe

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A simple chocolate cake to make tea time more fun for you and your guests!

Ingredients

  • • 115g / 4oz plain chocolate, chopped into Small pieces
  • • 45ml / 3 tbsp milk
  • • 150g / 5oz / ½ cup unsalted butter or margarine, softened
  • • 150g / 5oz / scant 1 cup light muscovado sugar
  • • 3 eggs
  • • 200g / 7oz / 1 ¾ cups self – raising flour
  • • 15 ml / 1 tbsp cocoa Powder
  • • 1 quantity Chocolate Buttercream, for the filling
  • • Icing sugar and cocoa powder, for dusting

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 180C / 350F / Gas 4. Grease two 18 cm/7 in round sandwich cake tins and line the base of each with non-stick baking paper. Select a small saucepan and a heatproof bowl that will fit over it.