Mandy's Chocolate Cake
This one pot chocolate cake will soon become you go to chocolate cake recipe.
Prep Time 20 minutes mins
Cook Time 20 minutes mins
Cake
- 125 grams butter
- 200 grams sugar
- 2 Tbsp golden syrup
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1½ cups flour
- 2 Tbsp cocoa
- 1 tsp baking soda dissolved in 1 cup of milk
Icing
- 3 tbsp cocoa
- 3 tbsp castor sugar
- 3 tbsp water
- 3 tbsp butter
- 1½ cups icing sugar
Cake
Pre heat your oven to 180 degrees.
Use a medium sized pot and melt the butter, sugar, golden syrup and milk over a medium heat on the stove top.
Once the mixture has melted and begun to combine add the cocoa.
Take the pot off of the heat and add the flour in small batches, beating after each addition.
Lastly add the baking soda and milk mixture.
Pour into your prepared cake tin and cook for 20 minutes.
Remove from the oven when a skewer can be inserted into the cake and come out clean.
Once your cake is cool to the touch - ice the cake.
Icing
Melt the cocoa, sugar, water and butter over a low heat until it forms a syrup.
Sift in your icing sugar and whip into a smooth icing.
Pour onto your cooled cake quickly. It will set fast so move quickly.