This week, with School back and children coming home hoping for a delicious treat, Roy decided it was the perfect time to show you his favourite cake recipe - one affectionately known in my family as 'fool proof chocolate cake'. It is a really simple recipe and anybody can cook it. It also takes ingredients which most people usually have lying around the house - the perfect recipe for a delicious treat! It is probably a very old recipe, though nobody is quite sure where it came from. It is certainly older than me though!
You Will Need:
- 1/2 a cup of butter or margarine
- 1 and a 1/4 cups of sugar
- 2 eggs, lightly beaten with a fork
- 1 teaspoon of vanilla essence
- 2 tablespoons of cocoa (the better quality the cocoa you use, the richer the cakes will be)
- 2 cups of self-raising flour
- 1 teaspoon of bicarbonate soda
- 1 cup of boiling water
- A mixing bowl
- 2 20 centimetre cake tins or 2 loaf tins lined with baking paper (or the equivalent)
- A wooden spoon
Method:
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees celcius
- Cream the butter and sugar together. It doesn't need to be perfect, just well mixed. All you need for this recipe is a wooden spoon - no electric beaters needed, unless you want to use them.
- Add the eggs, flour, cocoa and vanilla and mix them together.
- Add the bicarbonate soda to the boiling water and mix them together (the bicarbonate soda should fizz) then pour them into the cake batter and mix them in thoroughly.
- Divide the mix, as evenly as you can between the 2 cake tins and give them a tap on the bench to settle the mix
- Bake the cakes for 30 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the center comes out clean
- Let the cakes cool completely
- At this point, if you like, you can freeze one of the cakes. Wrap it securely in cling wrap and freeze. It defrosts perfectly.
- If you want to, ice the cakes with chocolate icing and sprinkle them with coconut. You can find the recipe for the icing in Roy's Cupcake Recipe (to visit, click here) Simply use coconut instead of hundreds and thousands. Of course, you could also use hundreds and thousands - whatever you like.