Chocolate cake with chocolate icing

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Nutritional Info
  • Servings Per Recipe: 30
  • Amount Per Serving
  • Calories: 106.7
  • Total Fat: 5.6 g
  • Cholesterol: 19.7 mg
  • Sodium: 60.1 mg
  • Total Carbs: 13.6 g
  • Dietary Fiber: 0.9 g
  • Protein: 1.5 g

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Introduction

A lovely sponge cake, with a little bit of chocolate A lovely sponge cake, with a little bit of chocolate
Number of Servings: 30

Ingredients

    Granulated sugar 6 oz / 170 g
    Margarine 6oz / 170g
    Medium eggs (3)
    Flour (self raising) 5oz/ 141g
    Coco powder 1oz / 28g
    *For the icing
    Butter 1 tbsp
    Cocoa powder 1 tbsp
    Boiling water 1 & 1/2 tbsp
    Icing sugar 4oz / 113 g
    Vanila essance 1/2 tsp

Directions

Beat together the margarine and butter, until smooth.
Add the eggs and beat again.
Sift the flour and coco powder into the bowl and gentle mix.
Pour the mixture into a tin and put into the oven at 180C (we have a fan oven and it takes roughly 15 - 20 minutes)
Let the cake cool
To make the icing melt the butter and add the cocoa powder, mix well.
Then boil the water and add it.
Sift the icing sugar into the bowl and mix well.
Finally add the vanilla extract and mix again.
*If the icing seems very runny add a little more icing sugar.
Spread evenly over the cake
Then either serve with birthday candles on or cut into squares.
This makes roughly 30 squares.
Enjoy.



Number of Servings: 30

Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user RACHINAL.