QUICK CHOCOLATE CAKE

Dangerously delicious chocolate cake

Ingredients

(1 cake)

Cake

mixture

175-200 g self-raising flour
250 g caster sugar, or white sugar chopped in the blender
50 g cocoa, (Use more if you like)
2 g bicarbonate of soda
1 g salt
2 eggs
250 ml milk
120 g butter or margarine
2 ml vanilla

Topping

300 ml cream, whipped with a little icing sugar
100 g cooking chocolate
15 g copha
nuts

Procedure

Sift the dry ingredients together in a mixing bowl. Soften the butter and add with the milk and vanilla to dry ingredients.
Beat for 2 mins with a wooden spoon or until smooth. Add eggs and beat another 2 mins.
Pour into a 20 cm round cake tin (I find the collapsible type best). Cook in a moderate 180C oven for 1 hour.
Turn the cooled cake over, slice into two layers and fill with cream. Melt chocolate with copha (do not burn) and pour over cake, dribbling it down the side. Decorate with almonds, pecans or walnuts.

Notes

Self-raising flour is popular in Britain and Australia, and hard to find in North America. Substitute 200 g of ordinary all-purpose flour with 2.5 ml of salt and 15 ml of baking powder mixed in. The North American equivalent of caster sugar is "granulated sugar". There is no equivalent of copha, but a mixture of butter and coconut is better than nothing. Crisco has the right cooking properties to substitute for copha, but the wrong flavor.

You can pour a little Grand Marnier into the cake before spreading the cream in the middle, but it doesn't need it.

Rating

Difficulty: moderate.
Time: 10 minutes preparation, 1 hour cooking, 1 hour to cool and 5 minutes decorating. 5 minutes to eat.
Precision: Measure the ingredients, though the cocoa and cream are not critical.

Contributor

 
Alicia Parmiter 
Australian Graduate School of Management, Uni of New South Wales 
alicia@agsm.unsw.oz seismo!munnari!agsm.unsw.oz!alicia

Recipe last modified: 10 Jun 86

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