Woman's Wonderla

Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

Eggs - 3nos
Butter - 200g
Vanilla essence - 3/4tsp
Castor sugar - 200g
Milk - 1tbs
Cocoa powder - 30g
Flour - 200g
Baking powder - 1/2tsp or 2g



Method :

Beat the eggs till light and fluffy. Soften the butter and add to the eggs. Add vanilla essence and sugar and beat till well blended.


Sieve cocoa, flour and baking powder together and gradually fold into the egg-butter mixture, making quick figures of eight in the base of the bowl. Add milk.

Line the base of the dish with greased and floured greaseproof or brown paper and pour in the batter. Pour the batter into a greased and floured dish. Bake in a preheated oven at 350 degree F for about 3/4 hour. When cool, gently turn the cake out.



Top the cake with nuts. A dusting of castor sugar will make it look very attractive.

Icing :

Sieve icing sugar, cocoa and salt together. Heat water
and sugar, until the sugar dissolves and then remove from heat. Add the sieved contents into the warm sugar solution. Also add the essence, butter and oil to it and mix well. Pour this over the cake uniformly.


Finally decorate the cake.