One Egg Chocolate Cake with Coffee Icing
Nutritional Info
- Servings Per Recipe: 12
- Amount Per Serving
- Calories: 216.4
- Total Fat: 4.1 g
- Cholesterol: 24.7 mg
- Sodium: 184.6 mg
- Total Carbs: 43.1 g
- Dietary Fiber: 0.5 g
- Protein: 2.3 g
View full nutritional breakdown of One Egg Chocolate Cake with Coffee Icing calories by ingredient
Introduction
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Ingredients
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Chocolate Cake
50g Butter
1 tbsp Golden Syrup
1 Egg
1/2 Cup Sugar
1tbsp Cocoa
1 cup Standard White Flour
1 tsp Baking Powder
A few drops Vanilla Essence
1 tsp Baking Soda
3/4 cup Milk - nonfat
Coffee Icing
2 cups Icing Sugar
3 tbsp Water (approx)
1/4 tsp Vanilla Essence
1/4 tsp Butter
2 tsp Instant Coffee
Directions
Chocolate Cake:
Melt butter and golden syrup. Add egg and sugar and beat well - until creamy and fluffy.
Sift cocoa, flour and baking powder into mixture, add vanilla essence and beat well.
Dissolve baking soda in milk and then fold into cake mixture.
Pour mixture into one large cake tin or two 20cm sponge sandwhich tins - greased.
Bake at 190 degrees celcius for 30 minutes or until the cake springs back when lightly touched.
Wait until cold and then ice with Coffee Icing.
Coffee Icing:
Sift icing sugar into a bowl.
Dissolve instant coffee into 1tbsp of boiling water and add to icing sugar. If you are not a fan of instant coffee - please feel free to use one tbsp of cocoa for chocolate icing instead of coffee (the chocolate icing is quite good if you add some peppermint essence).
Add butter and vanilla essence and combine all ingerdients.
Gradually add remining water until icing is a nice spreadable consistency (you may need a little more or a little less water).
Ice cake (if you made this in two tins, put a small amount of icing between layers) and wait until icing sets.
Makes 12 medium-large slices.
Number of Servings: 12
Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user NIXXXI.
Melt butter and golden syrup. Add egg and sugar and beat well - until creamy and fluffy.
Sift cocoa, flour and baking powder into mixture, add vanilla essence and beat well.
Dissolve baking soda in milk and then fold into cake mixture.
Pour mixture into one large cake tin or two 20cm sponge sandwhich tins - greased.
Bake at 190 degrees celcius for 30 minutes or until the cake springs back when lightly touched.
Wait until cold and then ice with Coffee Icing.
Coffee Icing:
Sift icing sugar into a bowl.
Dissolve instant coffee into 1tbsp of boiling water and add to icing sugar. If you are not a fan of instant coffee - please feel free to use one tbsp of cocoa for chocolate icing instead of coffee (the chocolate icing is quite good if you add some peppermint essence).
Add butter and vanilla essence and combine all ingerdients.
Gradually add remining water until icing is a nice spreadable consistency (you may need a little more or a little less water).
Ice cake (if you made this in two tins, put a small amount of icing between layers) and wait until icing sets.
Makes 12 medium-large slices.
Number of Servings: 12
Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user NIXXXI.